If you heard words in your native language you are an Asian speaker!
And Asian speakers sometimes have difficulty with English grammar or usage that is different
than their original language.
This video will teach you about some of the most common mistakes that you can easily correct
to improve the way you use English.
It will make your English sound more fluent and sound more professional.
Many Asian languages do not use personal pronouns like "he" or "she" or "him" or "her" and this
can be a problem in English because they are so frequently used.
So let's talk about your mother.
Your mother, "she" is a woman and you love "her", right?
And your father, "he" is a great man and you love "him".
And let's use an example: "Let's say your mother had a baby.
So "she" is happy with "her" little baby.
And the baby is a boy.
So "he" is a "he" or "him", so your Mom, "she" is so happy about "her" little boy.
"He" is so cute.
"She" loves "him".
These are personal pronouns so important in English.
The second rule I want to cover is singular versus plural nouns.
"Robert bought three book at the bookstore" is incorrect.
Books is a plural noun so there is one book and two books and three books so it is better
to say "Robert bought three books at the bookstore."
In some Asian languages the object of the sentence can be put in the front of the sentence,
so "Shanghai, I like to go there" sounds correct but in English the object is placed in the
middle of the sentence.
So it is better to say, "I like to go to Shanghai".
Another common problem with native Asian language speakers is the difference between something
that is "very old" and something that is "too old".
Now my Mom is ninety years old so you could say she is "very old".
She has seen many things happen in her life, but she's not "too old".
In that case, "too old" would mean "excessively old" as if she was not useful.
But she is still useful and funny and can tell a joke and drive a car and cook food
for herself, so she's "very old" but not "too old" as in excessively old.
Also some things like a historical building, the Great Wall of China, or the Pyramids in
Egypt - something like that - is very old but they are not too old since we can still
learn something about history from those important historical sites.
One thing that can be "too old" is some type of fruit or something that has rotted and
can no longer be used.
You can describe a banana that's gotten black and kind of gooey and has flies around it
as "very old" and also "too old" because we wouldn't want to eat it, it might make us
sick.
In many Asian languages, the grammar is quite different than that of English and it's hard
to switch from one style of grammar into an opposite style of grammar when you are learning
another language.
It's easier if you are a French speaker and you are learning Spanish because they are
quite similar in the way they are constructed.
So this series I'm doing will help you understand these grammar differences and give you examples
that you can study and use to help your English be more fluent, more natural and correct.
I understand how difficult this transition between different types of grammar and usage
can be.
I spent a year studying Japanese and I learned some thousands of words.
And I spent a lot longer time studying the Thai language and I use that every day.
The grammar from those languages is not the same as English so I have to make that hurdle
to make sure that I use the grammar of the Asian language correctly.
So I study it often and review the most common mistakes that I and other Western language
speakers make so to make sure that I can speak correctly in the language where I want to
communicate.
Those are examples of some common errors that are made from speakers of Asian languages
when they try to go from their original language grammar to English language grammar.
It's almost like traveling to the opposite side of the world in terms of grammar and
usage.
I've written a book all about these most common mistakes.
These are mistakes that I've heard thousands of Asian language speakers make over the last
thirty years as I've been a teacher.
I'd recommend the book that would be helpful for you and the book is listed in the description
below, you can check that out and please subscribe to this playlist and channel.
I'm doing a whole series of helping native Asian language speakers improve in English.
I know you can do it!
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