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Q: What are the most common English mistakes you have heard from chinese people?
Either written or spoken, there are a bunch of them and seems like all of the chinese guys/girls had the same teacher who taught the same mistakes. Some of them may be due tongue problems perhaps.
I'm from Chinr? haha
12 years 26 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
English P.H.D students cant speak English even after 10 15 years of training,
they suck with the 'R' sound.
can't seem to get past calling Males 'she'.
overuse 'to' --- going to shopping.
Ururally.
It's the only word I correct/criticize when speaking english with my gf. She's making great strides, as there's actually no "r" sounds in her "usually" now!
I have heard a lot of think that sounds like fink or sink. It's a little difficult for them to pronounce θ correctly due to their language system.
I hear them put the letter A and O on the end of words
Good'a, go'a , Name'o .......
lokethebloke:
Also, gonna, and wanna, probably picked up from bad American english teachers.
lokethebloke:
But you are one of our ex-convicts, surely you have more respect for the Queen's English? We must preserve the language at all costs, I say invade the United States of America NOW. Don't put bases in Australia!!!!
giadrosich:
@Loke. Hahaha. You guys tried that once, and those struggling 13 colonies were the only ones to ever beat that superpower through armed conflict. Rugged individualism wins again!
lokethebloke:
We can have another go, after all we do have a few nukes that we bought off you a few years ago. Ahhh, forgot, we need your permission to use them, beaten again. Will we ever free ourselves from this cultural imperialism?
By the way, my daughter has talent as an artist, that's an oil of a lady called Vivian Westwood, check out London fashion week.
What are the most common English mistakes have you heard from so called native English speakers? Gonna and wanna perhaps?
mArtiAn:
Yeh, I wanna comment on your use of the word 'mistake' there.........but i'm gonna leave it.
lokethebloke:
Are you suggesting that they are not mistakes, that some people are deliberately bastardising my language? We must make a stand to preserve the Queen's English.
Createach:
I wanna say that you are right and am gonna give you a thumbs up
Do G for dog , urely as usually, orange as original, and many like this, but have to think too much and i did not finish my coffee yet :-)
I'm not good at English but i have to speak English with foreign friends .confused by different accents although i speak Chinglish 
philbravery:
thats ok as a native English speaker I cant understand Scotsmen
and Teenagers have another dialect I don't understand
The most common mistake i've heard made is in mistaking the word 'large' for 'huge'.
mArtiAn:
My head is large but not enough to draw stares, my testicles are huge, they're like two bowling balls in a sock..
lokethebloke:
But surely you don't go around exposing your testicles just to prove how huge they are? You could be arrested and have them cut down to size.
-Sometimes using the past tense en present tense wrong. "I go back to home last vacation."
-As diverdude mentioned, saying "he" when the person is a female.
Yes a good list so far
1) he/she confusion
2) past/present tense mixup
3) usually - I hear ulually most of the time
4) the v and th sounds
5) Italian English - you make-a the pizza and then-a eat-a the pizza
now add misplaced question words using Chinese word order
you want to eat what? you come from where?
You see their Chinese teachers teach grammar, vocab and more grammar and not phrases and collocations. Their Chinese English test (CET-4 & 6) has no speaking test. Now what do you expect from a system that is based on rote learning and passing tests in the Confucian tradition?
a, an, and the.... there are rules, but they arent easy to non native speakers
he/she seems to be the big one that i can't get most of my students/friends/girlfriend to correct.
,My exclamations although am not chinese...........Need to fix my mistakes before looking at others.........Plus i think i enjoy my mistakes and some on this forum do too so say what...Am keeping them
morocotopo:
Sure we all have, you can read my question and will find out English is not my mother tongue
Forgetting to's and it's. Also, "are you from Spanish?"
That's right here in China i came across chinese people speaking some sort of languages that I, myself wouldn't call it English but Hey they're not natives and it's not their faults. I blame their language Mandarin for not having the letter R.
SHE=HE, L=R and lots of O,A at the end of almost each word. LOL
example: My fatheL woLk in the bank, She is Bely good-O
I always thought the most common English mistake was the introduction: "Halo"
for the ielts test , i just want the students to stop saying clotheses , shopping is a common topic and my friend who is an ielts examiner hears this from many students.
no plural for clothes , fish and candy, but they forget.
They mispronounce i sound in hit, sit and English but they pronounce i in SHIT correctly ! Thanks to Hollywood.
"Shoop" instead of "soup" (kinda like Sean Connery now that I think of it....).
GuilinRaf:
Well, I just saw Medicine Man the otehr day, and he was complaining "I found the cure for 'cansher' and now I 'losht' it!"
Is it really? I very like it!
Are you happiness? A happiness family...You are very success. Feel very sadness.
Also 90% of em misplace these :
fun - funny, tired - tiring, scared - scary, bored - boring, excited - exciting
