r/mildlyinfuriating 1d ago

English for Beginners

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u/Swervin69 1d ago

Don’t feel bad beginners, fluent speakers still don’t know how to tell their, there, and they’re apart.

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u/ewixy750 21h ago

The number of people here using then instead of than is annoying me way more than anything else, and English is my 4th language...

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u/okarox 10h ago

Native speakers make different mistakes as they approach it from the spoken language. Brea and brake is often confused. I would never do that as my perspective is visual.

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u/blewawei 10h ago

Yep. If you see someone mix up "you're" and "your", they're probably a native speaker.

Similarly, if you hear someone make a distinction between two words that are spelt differently but typically pronounced the same, they're probably speaking English as their second language.

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u/blewawei 10h ago

Yep. If you see someone mix up "you're" and "your", they're probably a native speaker.

Similarly, if you hear someone make a distinction between two words that are spelt differently but typically pronounced the same, they're probably speaking English as their second language.