You made an English mistake and you’re feeling so embarrassed. Are you tired of making the same mistakes in English again and again? Your face feels hot and you’d like to disappear. That’s okay. Embarrassment is universal, and everyone makes mistakes when learning a new language. Often, when you’re learning a new language, embarrassment occurs as the result of a spoken or written error.

But you need to make mistakes in order to learn better. End the bad habits that can leave the people you talk to confused.

The Lessons in this course warn you of hundreds of typical mistakes learners make and explain the reasons behind the mistakes, so you can correct yourself in the future. This course discusses and gives tips on how to overcome the most common English mistakes made by English language learners worldwide.

At the end of this course, you will:

• Speak and write English as if it were your native tongue
• Recognize the most common English mistakes and you will be able to correct yourself
• Understand the role your first language plays when learning English
• Establish an understanding of the distinction between English and your native language

This course has been designed to meet the requirements of students whose mother tongue is not English. Its main purpose is to help to correct the common mistakes to which foreign learners of English are liable.

The method adopted throughout this work is uniform. All the errors dealt with are singled out, for they have to be recognized before they can be corrected, then correct forms are substituted for incorrect ones; finally, simple explanations are given wherever necessary to justify particular usages.

The difficulties tackled are real, and the examples are representative of the mistakes commonly made by foreign students of English, being the result of observations made over a long period of time.

Much care has been given to the preparation of the course.