AEE 157: Announcement! TOP 15 FIXES for Your Biggest English Mistakes

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Language Learning, Education, Business

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2014

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Taking IELTS? Get our free IELTS video training course now Does your English need a tune-up? Your English is like a car. The better you take care of it, the better it runs! Today we’re going to help you keep your English in top shape by introducing the top 15 biggest mistakes in English! Every Tuesday from August until November, we will talk in-depth about one of these mistakes. We will discuss why it is a problem and give you the tools you need to fix it. Our weekly discussions of the top 15 biggest mistakes in English will focus on these topics: Using the verbs “listen” and “hear” Whether to use “say” or “tell” or “speak” or “talk” Using “wish” or “hope” Do you use “to have” or “to be” to tell your age? Using the verb “will” correctly when talking about the future Are you “bored” or “boring?” Should you say “I have been” or “I was?” Do you “lend” or “borrow?” What does it mean to “invite over?” “I will” or “I’m going to?” “People is” or “People are?” When to use “much” and when to use “many” The difference between “make” and “do” Are you “by yourself” or “on your own?” When to use the article “the” Have you had problems or made mistakes with the words or phrases above? What have you done to make your English run better? Tell us about it in the comments below! Come back to our site for more tips Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 157, announcement top 15 fixes for your biggest English
0:08.1	mistakes.
0:09.1	Welcome to the All-Eears English Podcast where you'll finally get real native English
0:18.0	conversation and fluency for business and life. We believe in connection, not perfection when it comes to learning English.
0:28.2	Now here are your hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Aubrey Carter, the Ialds Whiz, coming to you from Arizona
0:37.9	and Boston, USA. A. Today get a preview of this exciting series that we'll be doing.
0:54.0	Find out what you'll learn with Allers English Sometimes you might feel like you're not
1:10.7	creative spark again.
1:14.3	Maybe this is catching up with creative friends, experimenting with a new look, or trying out a new
1:19.7	recipe, and thanks to the Sims, inspiration is just one game and one spark away.
1:25.6	Ready to spark something? Download the Sims 4 and play for free.
1:30.0	Hey Aubrey, how's it going? I'm great, how are you? Good, how's your car running these days?
1:37.0	I had a really funny thing happen recently where, so we have a Volkswagen Atlas and it's a newer car and it turns
1:46.6	out that in a lot of newer cars they're using a soy-based coating on the
1:51.0	wires on the electrical wires. We didn't know that until we were
1:54.8	camping and we went to start our car and it wouldn't start and we opened the
1:59.0	hood and a squirrel or something had chewed through all of these wires.
2:04.7	Oh my gosh!
2:05.7	It was crazy and it was such a pain to get it towed and get it fixed and the warranty didn't cover it and then we found out they said oh yeah
2:16.8	they're using soy-based wires to be more environmentally friendly but it's
2:21.4	causing this problem in lots of cars that rats or
2:25.3	squirrels or mice are smelling it and come and eating it and chewing through the
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