Do you make these mistakes in English?

Want to improve your English easily and quickly? In this video, I explain the most common mistakes made by English learners. Over 150 of these mistakes are included in my new course, "Correct Your English Errors in 10 Minutes a Day": https://10.bexenglish.com . It helps you make small changes to achieve BIG results. Common mistakes include: verb tenses, confused words, subject-verb agreement, adjectives, adverbs, word forms, expressions, and more. The secret is to learn a little each day, and to review often. Whether you join my course or build your own learning program, this video will help you upgrade your English. Interested in my easy, daily program to advance your English? Click here: https://10.bexenglish.com

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Hi. I'm Rebecca from www.engvid.com. In the past 30 years, I've worked with thousands of students from all over the world to help them improve their English communication skills. In the past year, I've been researching the most important errors and the most common errors made by English learners. And what I've done is I've put all of this information together into a course. It's called: "Correct Your English Errors in 10 Minutes a Day". I'm very excited to tell you about this course, because I really think it's an easy, quick, fast way for you to improve your English and take it to a higher level. All right?

But first what I want to do is tell you: What are the points you have to keep in mind when you are trying to improve your English? What do you need to know about correcting your errors? So, let me share a little bit of my results from my research so it can help you. Okay? And then we will look at specific types of errors, and do a little quiz to see where you stand. Okay? Let's get started.

So, first, when you're correcting your English, really, you can do two things. Right? When you're improving your English, you can do two things; you can learn what's right or correct what's wrong. Now we're talking about this area where we correct what's wrong. So, in order to correct what's wrong, what do you need to do? First, you need to know what's wrong. So, when I get an essay or I get an email to correct, what's the problem? It's not that the person was trying to make mistakes. They weren't trying to make mistakes; they're trying to do their best. Right? That's what you do. Every time you write or every time you speak, but you didn't know that something was wrong. So, first you have to know what's wrong.

Then you have to understand why it's wrong. Why is it this word and not that word? Why is it this verb tense and not that verb tense? And so on and so forth. Okay? Then you have to learn how to fix it. Okay? Is it a spelling change? It is a punctuation error? What kind of mistake is it? That's what we're going to be looking at - the types of mistakes. Because once you understand and correct a type of mistake, you will correct lots of mistakes all at once. Okay? And that's what I want you to do; to make quick progress, fast progress. Okay.

Then what you need to do, which many students do, is to practice it immediately. So, for example, if I teach you something in this lesson or in any one of my engVid lessons, after you watch it, what you need to do is to practice something with that immediately. That's why we usually have a quiz-right?-so that you can go there right away, do some more practice to put that information really into your head; and not just to put it passively there, but to use it. Right? To use whatever you've learned in a practical way.

So, you need to practice it immediately, but sometimes that's where students stop. They practice it right away, and then they don't touch it after that, and they think: "I did it. I know it", but not quite. So, what's also very, very important in terms of our brain, in terms of how we learn, in terms of how we remember is this point, here: That you need to review it frequently. Review anything that you learn often; otherwise, it's not going to stay with you. So, for example, in my course, what we have are we have daily quizzes, we have weekly tests, we have monthly reviews with the same material. Okay? So that after a while, you say: "Of course I know that. I know how... The difference between 'it's' and 'its'. I know the difference between 'affect' and 'effect'. That's not a problem", because you've reviewed it. If you don't review it, then it's going to drop away. Okay? So this is an essential part of brain-based learning, of very smart learning. Not just hard learning, but smart learning.

And then you need to know what's important. So, let's say you get back your essay and there are twenty corrections. So, are they all equally important? No. Some are critical. If you make some mistakes, you can get very low marks on your IELTS or TOEFL, you could lose a job possibility… […]