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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Difficult words for English learners
I was just taking the piss with DiverD and I realised that there are some words that are a ubiquitous problem.
Eg: ture = true
vedio = video
so fashion = fashionable
morton = moron
Are there any other words we can help our friends with?
5 years 51 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
the thing is its very difficult for someone to realize their own problems when they speak or write. It might seem like a good question except people who answer won't benefit from this. And people who will benefit won't even on this site.
Stiggs:
Hey, if it amuses us for a few hours then mission accomplished I reckon.
Off the top of my head...... gril = girl, no why = no reason , hot water isn't good for the healthy it's good for the health and baijiu isn't white wine, it's an abhorrent spirit / paint stripper.
icnif77:
I had to be carried out of the Hospital in China completely drunk.
Head of the Hospital asked me previous day: 'What kind of wine do you like?'
me: 'I like red, but white is also OK ...'
... what 'pron.' mistake on my part!
We had almost 2 bottles of Baiju with constant 'gambei' calls and my explanations why I don't bottom-up hard liquor.
Not too many people outside of China believe I entered Hospital in sound health and I had to be carried toward the exit few hours later.
OIC!
good for healthy - good for your health
So traffic - Lot of traffic
so sourly - it's sour
Let's fighting - Keep it up
I'm so boring - I'm bored
I'm so annoying - I'm annoyed
Stiggs:
Yeah the boring /annoying ones are misused a lot, I often can't be bothered correcting them so just heartily agree instead.
People probably think I'm not all there when I giggle to myself...
iWolf:
Often the boring/annoying thing is an unintended mistake but is usually ture [sic].
yeah,,,, hearing them tell me everything is 'good for healthy' drives me fkn nuts! Oh,,, eat this smelly sh*t, 'it's good for healthy',,, here drink this crap,,, 'it's good for healthy'.... agggggh,,,, listening to 'em keep blabbering that nonsense makes me wanna go postal! ,,'good for healthy' too I'm sure?
philbravery:
Diver D old mate Just remember that old saying that what doesn't kill you straight away will get you in your sleep.
the thing is its very difficult for someone to realize their own problems when they speak or write. It might seem like a good question except people who answer won't benefit from this. And people who will benefit won't even on this site.
Stiggs:
Hey, if it amuses us for a few hours then mission accomplished I reckon.
Sorry, excuses me, Please, May I ,
Thank you, ......ect
Only the ones beginning with a letter from the English alphabet.
*at least here in McFknNoWheresVille
try and pronounce "usually" with out putting an "r" in the word.
icnif77:
'JUZZH' -pause- 'VAA' -pause- 'LII' - exhale! - USUALLY!
Imagine class of 55 students repeats after me .... 'juzzh' pause ...
By the way where did you Lymies get the word "gerocomium" from.
icnif77:
https://www.wordaz.com/gerocomium.html
- more common than institutions of a more specific nature, such as the gerocomium (a place for the old), nosocomium (for the sick) and orphanotropium (for ...
iWolf:
I'm not a lymie but one of the antipodean lymie convict class.....however, my best guess is gero- old geezer com - community ium - restricted building like a sanatorium. So a place that keeps old geezers locked up and on drugs.
ambivalentmace:
some greek word for outsiders and pilgrims treated for the plague in the middle ages but not a common word in America, I had a Chinese student telling a lie on a college application about volunteer work at a gerocomium, nursing home, I did not know Beijing had dictionaries from the middle ages at the library.
Iwolf, did you see the news on the you tube shooter, a lady with a Muslim name, vegan, animal rights lover complaining about censorship of her you tube videos. This is weird in so many ways. They said her workout video was to racey. Racey, she is not even a 6 on scale to 10.
ambivalentmace:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/punish-muslim-day-york-braces-082530683.html
Punish a muslim day is April 3rd, my birthday and somebody honored one of my wishes. Should I celebrate, never mind, no German Chocolate cake in China, another lousy birthday.
ambivalentmace:
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Suspect-in-You-Tube-Shooting-Posted-Rants-About-the-Company-Online--478711713.html She could have picked a better day than the anniversary of the MLK assassination
iWolf:
I haven't seen it yet. I don't have a vpn. I have to wait for my (Chinese) wife to come home with her laptop. Ironically, it has a vpn.
ScotsAlan:
We saw it. Thank fuck she was a stupid bitch who did not know how to buy and use an AR15. Fuck me, if she had Been an NRA member she would have been able to take out 20. For fucks sake, wind your necks in.
Scottish should be a separate language. When Scottish is finaly recognised as a language by the UN, I will shout out hurrah. I will be an ethnic minority. Should get me a few more points on the work visa thing.
icnif77:
Poms, they'll never let W. Churchill go ... .. and 'I am Native Scottish English teacher ...' could never qualify you for Working permit. Pron. wise. he he
Difficult words to hear and spell out.
Weird
Accommodate
Handkerchief
Indict
Cemetary
Conscience
Rhythm
playwright
embarrass
pharaoh
liaison
An easy way to remember and memorize these words (and more) is to make flashcards and understanding their meaning.
ScotsAlan:
I used one word in a technical email today that I knew my Chinese colleagues would need to look up to translate. The word was 'sandwich'. The email was about balancing up and down forces acting on something in the middle. To be honest, most of the words you posted above, and the word 'sandwich' are pretty pointless in conversational English.
ScotsAlan:
My 6 year old daughter speaks English as a second language. For things that fly, I taught her 3 words. Aeoroplane, helicoptor and bird. Thats enough. No need to know air liner, jet fighter, refueling tanker etc. The brain only has so much space after all.
Trumpster native speakers always seem to be confused with there and their when they post on The Daily Fail comments section.
Jean.P:
eCcities native members are often mistaken using "your" instead of "you're", and "than" instead of "then", and "its" instead of "it's" when they post on eCcities Answers section.
icnif77:
Native English speakers aren't mistaken by not using apostrophe.
Difference between 'it is' with or without apostrophe is commonly understandable between Native English speakers and only English beginners (NNES) see it as a mistake.
Once, you read the whole sentence, Native English speaker can easily determine either writer meant possessive adjective or he/she forgot to use apostrophe while typing over the i-Brick.
NNES as Jean above likes to turn that into 'disrespect to English Grammar rules', but this and similar websites aren't Magoosh TOEFL Prep. ....
Rhapsody
Flocculate
Xenophobe
Capitulate
Antidisestablishmentarianism
I know a guy whose name is Morton. I hope he doesn't come to China. I don't think he realizes people will call him "Moron"
Dotard re-entered the English language this year
Come on, own up. Who was the teacher who taught him that?