
This course helps Spanish speakers overcome common English mistakes by learning to separate Spanish and English, jump into speaking, embrace mistakes, and practice without translating.
Explore the top ten language-learning tips, stressing the doors language learning opens, humor over frustration, and progress as a marathon, with rhythm focus and self-recorded improvement.
Master the correct use of in and on across months, seasons, morning and afternoon, evening, dates, and holidays, on the internet, on TV, and on the news, avoiding common mistakes.
Clarify when to use the English verb to be, including group versus single subjects, weather expressions, born phrases, and article usage in Spanish-English transfer patterns.
Explore how the verb to have confuses Spanish speakers, especially with ages and food or drinks, and when to use be instead.
Learn how Spanish expresses 'I like' using me gusta and gusta plus mucho for emphasis, including where to place mucho and when to specify what you like.
Identify common misused verbs for Spanish speakers and correct them to natural English, with examples like visit versus know, miss versus lose, and the use of used to.
Explore common English mistakes Spanish speakers make with the word to, too, and two, and learn when to use to say versus to tell, and in order to or for.
Master the rule of matching singular with singular and plural with plural to avoid Spanish–English mistakes, using there is for singular nouns and there are for plural nouns.
Learn how to tell time in English with Spanish-speaker mistakes, including word order, placing time at sentence end, and choosing morning, afternoon, evening, or night without redundancy.
explore two common forms for dates in English—month-day and day-month—and practice ordinal pronunciation, including first, second, third, 4th–10th, and 21st–23rd.
Hello! My name is Austin from Native English With Austin. I am from the United States and, teach English and Spanish, and have done so to people from over 80 countries, many of which are Spanish-speaking. Because I have worked with hundreds of Spanish speakers through the years, I have created a course focusing on the most common mistakes I have seen native Spanish speakers make when learning English. These mistakes are common because the Spanish language foundation causes a certain approach to English, just like any other native language.
The course is laid out in 20 sections, each which includes a slideshow presentation given by me as well as worksheets for each section to make sure you feel comfortable with the material. I highly recommend trying to find a way to practice these in conversation as it allows your ears to hear what sounds correct and incorrect as this is a sign of fluency. As the first section points out, there are general definitions for In/On but many of their uses are a matter of repetition and memorization rather than following a specific rule. Think about your native language and keep in mind that native speakers do not think in rules as they simply know what sounds correct and what sounds incorrect, which comes with practice.
Sections:
1. In/On
2. Be
3. Have
4. Like
5. Misused Verbs
6. To
7. Singular/Plural
8. Time
9. Dates
10.Better/Best/Worse/Worst
11. Asking Questions
12. Negative
13. More/Most
14. Of/About
15. Adjectives
16. Adverbs
17. For/During
18. Whole/All
19. Mispronunciations
20. Miscellaneous