Name: 8 Common Mistakes | Quick Tips To Improve Your English & Help You Sound More Like A Native Speaker
Uploaded: 2018-09-02T04:57:07.000Z
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hey guys what's up Stefanie the English
coach here from EnglishFullTime.com

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in this video I'm gonna help you correct
some of the most common mistakes that I

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see you making now these are mistakes
that I have heard English learners make

but there are also mistakes that I have
caught here in the comments section of

YouTube so I'm sure that as soon as I
give you guys these tips you won't make

these mistakes ever again and if you
don't make any of these mistakes

seriously congratulations because that
is just fantastic okay so the first one

is when you guys say advices thank you
for your advices we don't say it like

that we just say hey thanks for your
advice or that's excellent advice okay

the word is advice and it's always just
advice we do not say advices so don't

ever spell it like that again okay the
next one is when you guys say stuff like

oh this is awesome
I understand almost all of what you say

that is a direct translation basically
from Spanish because a lot of you guys

are Spanish speakers and I think you
might even say it like that in

Portuguese but in English we can just
say everything instead of saying all of

what I understood almost all of what you
say just say hey I understood almost

everything that you said okay almost
everything okay now the next mistake is

really funny I have to tell you guys
about this because if you're making it

with me that's one thing because I know
what you mean and I know you're learning

English and practicing so it's fine but
if you write something like this I don't

know in like a business email or
something like that it's just not good

okay so I have gotten so many emails
where people are like Stefanie thank

you so much for your videos thank you
for this thank you for that and then at

the end they say thank you so much for
wasting your time on us and when I read

that it just makes me laugh because this
is not a waste of time I love what I do

here I love this work I love helping
people with their English when we say

something wastes time it's like a
negative thing like I don't want to play

video games cuz it's just a waste of
time and I'd rather make youtube videos

I'd rather help you guys
your English okay so what I'm doing here

is not a waste of time and if you want
to thank someone for using their time on

you you can say thank you for spending
your time on me or thank you for helping

me thank you for using your time etc but
again it's not a waste of time so a

waste of time is something negative and
spending time on something that's

something usually positive something you
are excited to be doing or something

that you want to do so I spend time with
you guys I do not waste time on you guys

okay the next one is also pretty funny
you guys sometimes send me emails and

then you're like okay I'm impatiently
waiting for your response and I don't

know which language this comes from
because I've seen it so many times so if

you guys know like which language like
whoever speaks the language where you

guys say this and you're translating
directly let me know in which language

this is said in the comments hopefully
that made sense but that's not how we

say it in English okay I don't say I'm
impatiently waiting for your response

because impatience is considered a
negative thing right now we have other

ways of saying this we could say I'm
excited to hear from you or I'm looking

forward to hearing from you or I can't
wait to hear from you I look forward to

your reply etc okay or you could just
say I'm patiently waiting for your

response okay but even that is a little
bit awkward in English but at least it's

better because it shows that you are
being patient and not impatient because

when you say you're impatiently waiting
for something that sounds demanding it

sounds like hey send it right away where
is it what's going on next I've read

some comments from some of you guys for
you use the word met in a way that we do

not use it in English so one of the
comments was yeah I met some cities in

the USA I went to LA New York etc the
person said met cities we don't meet

cities it's not like hi how are you New
York nice to meet you or hi Los Angeles

nice to meet you how are you right we
meet people we don't meet cities and the

same goes for my YouTube channel because someone

wrote hey I met your YouTube channel
this week and I'm like no you didn't

meet it it's not like hi Stefanie's
YouTube channel nice to meet you right

you can meet me maybe if you meet me in
real life or something like that but you

meet people you don't meet things and
inanimate objects and stuff like that

okay so hopefully that tip helps alright
the next one is a very common mistake

and I'm sure you guys have even heard
teachers talk about it before it's the

difference between two like tea oh oh
and so so someone commented on one of my

videos Stefanie thank you you help
me too much and then I got another

comment on another video that said I
like this too much and what you guys

mean there is so Stefanie you help me
so much or I like this so much okay it's

that idea of a lot like so much I just
love it so much okay too is too much

like it's excessive like I ate too
much food and now I'm stuffed and I

don't feel good or I watched too much TV
today and so I felt lazy all day or I

really want those shoes but they're too
expensive so I can't get them okay the

only time I use too meaning so is like I
don't know with my niece and my nephew

they're just too cute okay they're just
they're so cute they're just it's too

cute it's it's too much I can't handle
it I love them so much and they're so

adorable they're just too cute okay
hopefully that explains the difference

because too is usually meant to mean
excessive in a bad way or there's

something negative associated with it
unless you're using it in the way I used

it with my niece and my nephew but
that's very rare and I mean sometimes I

say something like uh he is just too
funny

like too funny I can't even handle it he
is too funny alright so you can use it

like that but in the way that you guys
were using it like I like this channel

too much or you help me too much it
just doesn't seem right okay so let me

know in the comments if that made sense
okay the next one is when you guys say

stuff like excellent your videos
right in English we don't say it like

that we would say your videos are
excellent now since I know Spanish I

know that this is a direct translation
from Spanish and possibly from other

languages as well okay so just remember
that in sentences like this we would put

the subject first and then we would
describe it okay your videos are

excellent the kids are noisy the TV is
big okay I sent an email today where I

told a story if you guys are not on my
email list you can jump on at

EnglishFullTime.com but anyway in this email
that I sent today it was about a story a

funny and embarrassing story something
that happened to me and someone replied

and said that history was so funny thank
you for sharing it and that's because

that's again a direct translation from
Spanish so remember that in English we

use the word story okay that was a great
story thanks for sharing it history is

you know stuff that happened in the past
like you know when you're in high school

you have to take history classes you
learn about history okay history and

story are completely different and we
never say that was an awesome history if

we're talking about a story we say hey
that was an awesome story okay the last

one when you say something like today I
went to the school of my son or today I

went to the house of my friend that also
is a direct translation from many

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