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Six common English mistakes

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Lesson 1

Why native speech sounds simpler

hi i'm vanessa from speak english with vanessa calm don't make these mistakes let's talk about it have you ever watched an english TV show and realized whoa these guys speak way...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 2

Desire, want, and would like

cream for dessert people would look at you with little slits in their eyes and say what is he a literary professor from the 1800s so what should you use instead well we usually...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 3

How to use neither correctly

you know we shouldn't say neither nor is there ever a correct and natural way to use the word neither yes let me tell you the most common situation to use neither is if I said I...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 4

Me neither versus me either

we don't use it that often and we use the word either a lot so maybe people just feel a little more comfortable saying oh yeah me either I don't like politics too but technicall...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 5

The false friend actually

Octomom or maybe act about men men she I don't know how to say it in Portuguese but there's a word that looks almost exactly like the word actually and it means now in your lang...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 6

Natural uses of actually

summertime so she was correcting my reality or you might say she's actually dating someone I can't believe it this is a shocking reality like in our first sentence I actually fe...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 7

Although versus though

words here are although and though which one of these feels the most correct to you I have some bad news this was a trick question but both of these are grammatically correct bu...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 8

Even though and sentence-final though

to use the word though at the beginning it's better to add the word even even though it was raining we still went on a hike that sounds much more natural let's go back to that w...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 9

Common mistake review

good actually the museum is open on Mondays in the summer I can't watch a movie because I have to study now the wedding was kind of boring although the food was pretty good the...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

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