Five types who sabotage their own progress in English
Are you doing an English course at the moment? Are you satisfied with your progress? If your answer is Not really, perhaps you’re making things more difficult for yourself than they need to be. In the following, I describe five typical language learners I’ve come across and the drawbacks their behaviours have. You’ll notice that I’ve used the pronoun […]
Information + information = informations?
What have infomation, furniture and advice got in common? They’re all uncountable nouns. Uncountable nouns are concepts or materials which aren’t individual objects or events and therefore can’t be counted. They don’t have a plural form – you can’t say informations, furnitures or advices. And you can’t use the indefinite article (a/an) with these nouns, instead use some or the definite article (the): He gave […]
Can I become a beefsteak?
I suppose we’ve all heard about the man sitting in a restaurant and asking the waiter “Can I become a beefsteak?” And of course you’d never say that, would you? Would you??!! Become means werden, of course, and not bekommen. It’s a false friend. And there are many others out there waiting to trip you […]
