Today I'll be talking about the common English mistakes in Taiwan

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what we are going to show you is

English...

mistakes...

in Taiwan...

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Since Mandarin is our mother tongue, when we learn a new language

we tend to bring in the Mandarin syntax into the newly-learned language

or even translate it directly

producing the so-called "Chinglish"

I very like Chinglish

Lil' Ray please wait. I haven't cue you yet.

I personally think that being able to communicate is the most important

Even if you talk in Chinglish, as long as people understand you

you can still communicate

However, if you want to learn English well and use the correct grammar in your conversations

please continue watching~

Today I'll be cueing Lil' Ray to demonstrate Chinglish

and while he demonstrates, you can think about

how the sentences are incorrect and how we can fix them

After Lil' Ray's demonstration

I'll explain why they are incorrect and how we say them right!

Ready? Let's go!

Where are you come from?

America?

Oh~say can you see~by the dawn's early light... (U.S. National Anthem)

This sentence may be asked to foreigners in Taiwan. That is, "Where are you from?"

The problem here is that the "ARE" in "where ARE you come from"

should be changed into "do", making it "where do you come from"

This is because what you've asked is the action of "come"

and since we have a verb, we need the auxiliary verb "do"

If there isn't a verb in the question, then we do not need this "do"

For example, "Where are you from?"

This is also a common question to ask someone where they are from

And because we did not use the verb "come" directly,

which means the question doesn't include the verb

it's okay to just say "Where are you from?"

I woke up super late today morning

Noon! 12 o'clock!

This sentence is translated directly into "today morning" from「今天早上」

but this is incorrect. "Today" and "morning" are both nouns

so we can't just stack them together

If you want to refer to 今天早上, you can say "this morning"

so it should be "I woke up super late this morning."

If you intend to use the word "today", there's a way

but you have to use it solely, so it's "I woke up super late today."

I'm so boring. He's so boring. We are all boring

This mistake is quite often heard of

When do we use the words "boring" and "bored"?

"Boring" means 「令人感到無聊的」

while "bored" means 「我自身感到無聊」

So when you say "I'm so boring", you actually mean

"You are a boring person." instead of "I'm so bored."

It's the same thing when it comes to other adjectives

For example, "interesting" and "interested"

"exciting" and "excited", "surprising" and "surprised"

So, what you have to keep in mind is when added "-ing", it means "making someone feel",

when added "-ed", it means "your own feelings"

I want to go to the home. Sleeping. So tired

The "I want to go to the home" here,

means "我想要回家"

I think this is an interesting error, since we all know

if we're going to some place, we'll say "go to the _____" in English

For example, go to the store, go to the park, and go to the station

But! We can't use the same logic on this one

No one will say "go to the home." Instead, it's correct to just say "go home".

But have you ever wonder why we don't add "to" to "go home"?

Never!

That's because you...

Never mind, it's because, who would ever thought of this? It's so boring

The reason why we don't add "to" to "go home" is that

the "home" here is a adverb instead of a noun

There are some places that can count as adverbs

so we don't need to add the preposition "to"

For example, "go downstairs", "go outside", "go abroad"...etc.

Have you grown some knowledge?

Do you know where have toilet? Very need

The last one is the most important one, so you must learn

"Where is the toilet!"

But we can't just translate it directly into "where have toilet"

We can't add the verb "have" right behind the adverb "where"

if we want to ask 廁所在哪裡？we should say "Where's the toilet?"

The word "toilet" can also be replaced by other things

such as “where's the gas station”, “where's the money”...etc.

Okay! So let's review what we've learned today with Lil' Ray

Good job! It is always efficient to learn through mistakes

Have you notice other common mistakes in English that people often make,

or do you often make any mistakes in English?

Leave them down in the comment section below and let me correct them for you the next time!

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