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What mistakes do English speakers commonly make in your language(s)?

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January 27, 2012
03:49

jdmoncada

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Fantastic thread with really helpful information. I've been wondering about the same things for me as an English speaker learning my various languages.

Native: English Intermediate: Finnish, Spanish, German Beginner: Japanese, Russian Flirting with in 2012: French, Hungarian

January 27, 2012
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Kevinpost

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Julie, what are some mistakes English speakers make in Suomi (Finnish)?

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There will definitely be more that follow!

January 28, 2012
08:35

jdmoncada

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Rhythm: In Finnish it's like triplets instead of English which sounds like a pick up note into galloping.

Pronouncing an end of syllable H. Common in Finnish, but not done in English.

Accurately pronouncing vowel harmony. It's easy to be sloppy with it because that's not a feature of English, either.

Pronouncing double letters distinctly.

There are other things, and I want to suggest using the locative cases correctly as well as other cases like partitive. But for starters, I'll go with the pronunciation ticks above. I can't think of word order ticks.

Native: English Intermediate: Finnish, Spanish, German Beginner: Japanese, Russian Flirting with in 2012: French, Hungarian

July 29, 2012
21:09

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melski44 – I don't know if you're still around on this board.

I've been wondering… when native English-speakers speak French and mess up the genders, or sometimes mess up gender agreement, and the à le/au thing, etc., what do you think? Do you still find them easy to understand? How crucial are these things? (I mean, obviously someone who intends to become fluent in French should work to eliminate them but in most cases do these mistakes really interfere with you understanding me, or are they just errors but you'll still know what I am trying to say?) And what if I say something like <<la blanche maison petite>> or <<le grand homme>> instead of <<la petite maison blanche>>, and <<l'homme grand>>?

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September 7, 2012
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Raphacam

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I have some difficulties in French gender, since it has so many words that are similar and mean the same as in Portuguese but have a different gender, like the female Portuguese noun árvore and the male French noun arbor, or the feminine Portuguese suffix -agem and the male French suffix -age, I believe this is a common mistake.

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