Fix Your WORST English Mistakes in 13 Minutes

Fix Your WORST English Mistakes in 13 Minutes

 What if you could start fixing your biggest English mistakes in just 13 minutes?
Many English learners spend years studying grammar, vocabulary, and rules — yet they continue making the same small mistakes again and again. These mistakes may seem minor, but they can affect your confidence, clarity, and fluency in real conversations.
In this fast-paced and highly practical episode of Mind Life In English, host Profe Lao helps you identify and correct some of the most common and impactful English mistakes — in a simple, clear, and time-efficient way.
This is not about complicated grammar.
This is about real improvement you can feel immediately.
🎙️ What You’ll Learn in This Episode
🔹 1. The Most Common English Mistakes
Discover the mistakes that many learners repeat, such as:
• Incorrect sentence structure
• Misused prepositions
• Common pronunciation errors
• Overuse of direct translation from your native language
🔹 2. Why These Mistakes Happen
Understand the real reasons behind these errors:
• Thinking in your native language
• Lack of exposure to natural English
• Memorizing rules without real usage
• Fear of making mistakes
🔹 3. Quick Fix Techniques (Real-Time Learning)
Learn simple and powerful ways to correct your English instantly:
• How to restructure sentences naturally
• How to choose the right words in context
• How to sound more fluent without overthinking
• How to build better speaking habits
🔹 4. Learn Through Real Examples
This episode focuses on:
• Practical corrections
• Easy-to-understand explanations
• Real-life usage instead of textbook theory
• Listening-based learning for better retention
🔹 5. Build Confidence in Just Minutes
Even in a short time, you can:
• Notice your mistakes faster
• Speak more clearly
• Feel more confident in conversations
• Improve your overall fluency
🎯 Who This Episode Is For
✔️ Beginner to intermediate English learners
✔️ Learners who feel “stuck” at the same level
✔️ People who want fast, practical improvement
✔️ Anyone preparing for speaking, interviews, or daily conversations
🧠 Learning Insight
Improving your English is not about learning more —
It’s about fixing what you already know but use incorrectly.
Small corrections = Big results.
🎧 Final Thought
You don’t need hours of study to improve your English.
Sometimes, just 13 focused minutes can make a real difference.
🚀 Call to Action
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Transcript

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Hey there, how you doing? I'm not here to waste your time. I'm here to help you with your English. So let's go. Thanks, Lau. I enjoy a lot listening to your videos. Alright, I'm gonna teach you this structure one more time. It probably won't be the last time, but pay attention. You need this structure. Well, it's actually two. You need these two structures for saying that you enjoy something, you like something, you love something, you hate something, you need this, and you're gonna use it again and again and again in English, so focus. There are two ways of expressing this. You can say, I really enjoy blank the thing, or you can say, I enjoy the thing a lot. That's the structure, that's the order. It has to be that a lot goes after the thing. You have to say the thing first. I really enjoy sounds even more like a native speaker, and it's easier, and that is the number one I recommend, but you can also say I like blank a lot. With I like and I enjoy, this is what you're gonna use. So I want you to practice these phrases talking about things that you like that you enjoy. I want you to practice this because I see this mistake all the time, and it's an easy mistake to fix. You guys are just overcomplicating it and getting confused. You should be able to say, express that you like, that you enjoy something in English perfectly easily. It's not a complicated thing, and we use it all the time, right? We're constantly saying that we love, that we like, that we enjoy things. So this is your homework. I'm serious. I'm looking at you. If you make this mistake, now's your time to fix it. All right, next one. When I was a kid, I learned Centro Comercial as shopping center, which is the same in Portuguese. Okay, so we're mixing here Spanish and Portuguese, blah, blah, blah. It doesn't matter what language you speak, the only word you need is mall. Okay, in the United States, in English, all we use is mall. Mall culture is dying. It mall culture used to be a big thing in the early 2000s, 90s. Everybody went to the mall. Nowadays nobody wants to go to the mall. The mall is dying. The mall is not so popular in the US anymore. Yeah, some of the stores shut down at the mall. The mall's still there, but the some of the stores are gone. They went out of business at the mall. All you need is mall. Forget everything else. Got it? Alright. Next one. It's too fast. T Y, Profe Lao. My brain reads that as T Y. Every time I read T Y, I think it's a nickname for Tyler. I think it's Ty. A lot of native speakers don't write T Y. Some of them do, but a lot of them don't. So it's kind of weird for my brain. I don't know. It's not a mistake, but just write, just write thank you. Okay, the mistake here is is too fast. You never, you never, I repeat, you are never going to start a sentence with is unless it is a question. I believe that is correct, okay? I've been saying that for a while now. Nobody's corrected me. I think that's correct. Unless it is a question, do not start a sentence with is because it's going to be wrong. It has to be it's or it is. You need it, okay? You need it. And this is something that students struggle with because it's something very unique to English that doesn't exist in a lot of languages. You don't always have to say the thing, it's implied in the verb, but in English it's not. You need it. Next one. Okay, I understand, but is hard yet. Alright, we did it again. You gotta say it's it's hard, not is hard because what are you talking about? What is hard? What is hard? It's hard. It, it's hard. The other mistake is that you need to say still instead of yet. This is a common confusion. What is the difference between still and yet? So still is for something that is continuing. It started in the past and it is continuing now. It is still happening. Yet is for something that hasn't happened. It has not happened. It might happen in the future. It might happen in the future, but it has not happened. It hasn't happened yet. So in this case, um they're saying it's continuing to be hard. It already is hard. It was hard, it is hard right now, so it's still hard. It's something that's continuing, it's still hard. Okay, I understand, Prophet, but it's still hard. I know, I know it's hard, but stay with me. Watch my videos and practice, and you'll get better. And do other stuff too. You can't just watch my videos, okay? Yeah, if anybody is just watching my videos, you're not doing enough. You need to do more. If you're serious about learning a language and improving your language skills, you gotta do more than just watch my videos, all right? I hate to break it to you, but this is not enough. I'm French and I can understand 95% of the video. Fantastic. But I do many mistakes. Sorry, that was that wasn't sarcastic. Really? Fantastic. That's awesome. But I do many mistakes when I speak English. Okay, and you just made another one. But this is a very common mistake, even for advanced students. Even advanced students are confusing make and do because in other languages it's often one word, and in English it's two words, and it all depends on the context. And are there clear rules when to use it and when to not? I I don't know. It's kind of just memorizing it. So in this case, we say I make mistakes. Well, we always say make mistakes. We we don't say do mistakes, we say make mistakes. Why? No idea. I have no idea, but that is just the way it is. That's just the way it is. We make mistakes in English, and you just made a mistake, and that's okay. Here I am to help you with your mistake to fix it. All right, next one. Thanks a lot, Profe Lao. I passed through the 48 years of my life, blah blah blah. Okay, well, what's wrong with this one? In English, we don't say that. We just say spent, like in this case with the years. We I spent 48 years. With quantity of time, like we're probably just gonna use spent. I spent 48 years. You don't need the just 48 years. I spent 48 years of my life, blah, blah, blah. Um, sometimes we use things like uh go-through, like I went through. I we use that often with experiences, like I went through a breakup, I went through a hard time. In that case, we wouldn't use spent. We wouldn't say I spent a hard time. We so we just spent with the like the number, the quantity of time, you know. I spent three months in Vietnam, whatever. Um, okay, this is the comment or a like a message I saw in a group chat in Lima, Peru, um, with like people who are travelers and people who live there and like connecting, socializing, meeting up, stuff like that. So somebody, a Peruvian, said, anyone arriving to Lima, that should be a question mark. Anyone arriving to Lima? We probably would say anyone coming to Lima, because if you're getting to Lima right now, like you're in the airport, you're probably not going on this socializing app and looking for accommodation. So it's for people who are planning to go and make make their plans of accommodation and everything. So you probably would want to say, anyone coming to Lima? Yeah. I'll be able to host since September 7th. Okay. Here's another example of how in some languages there's one word and then you translate it to English and it's multiple words. So here's another example of that. So we have since, but we also have from. So since would be talking about the past. So if you started hosting on September 7th, you could say I've been hosting since September 7th. But in this case, she's not talking about the past. She's talking about the future. She's saying I will be available starting September 7th. So we would say from September 7th on. In that context, on is like continuing. From September 7th on. Oh yeah, I'll be available uh from October 1st on, or from October 1st, just like that. Or I'll be available after October 1st. There's different ways of saying it, but in this case, she should say, I'll be able to host from September 7th. All right, this next one is something that I see all the time, every day, it feels like, in my comment section of my videos. And I don't know, us English teachers, we need to shout it from the rooftops. I don't know how long we're going to be saying this before everybody knows this, but advice is not a word that we put into plural with an S. Like we don't say advices. Advices does not exist. Or I don't know if it does, but we don't use it. We don't say advices. So just throw advice into the trash. Advice is a non-countable thing, an uncountable thing for us. Um, you can say a piece of advice, but most of the time we don't even say that. Most of the time, we just say thanks for the advice. And we could be thanking you for one thing that you told us or ten things that you told us. It doesn't matter, we don't care, we're not thinking about that. That that's not that doesn't matter. We're just saying thanks for the advice in general. The advice in general. So advice is this general, uncountable concept for us. You could say uh some advice, you could say, can you give me some advice? I would just write, if a native speaker was trying to write this comment or expressing this this this idea, they would just say, like, your advice is great, your advice is always great. I always love your advice. Okay, next one. I'm watching without subtitles, and I can understand almost everything you're saying. Sorry, I don't have my glasses on, I'm trying to like squint and read these comments. I'm too glad for that. Congrats, your content is really helpful, thank you. Awesome. I love these comments. You guys are so nice and fantastic, and I love to read them. Here's my correction. I'm too glad for that. This is wrong for three reasons, and this is gonna blow your mind, and I'm gonna explain this to you, and this is gonna change some of your lives. Why is this phrase wrong for three reasons? Reason number one, I think you guys try to use the word glad too often. You learned that glad means happy, and so now you try to use it every time you want to express happy, but we don't do that. We don't just replace happy with glad. Um, glad is for specific contexts. Um, it's a little hard to explain, but probably Chat GBT can explain this better than me if you want to ask it to explain the difference in phrases and sentences. All I know is that we don't use glad and happy exactly the same. Happy is more general, you can use it all the time. I recommend to be safe, just use happy. And then as you advance in English, you can see how native speakers use glad and you can copy those exact phrases in those exact contexts. But I recommend just using happy. Just use happy. We there's nothing wrong. We we use happy all the time. Like, but you wouldn't say I'm too happy. Why? Because when you use too, that makes it a problem. Now it's a problem. Now we got a problem. Why did why is there a problem? It's not a problem. You are very happy. You are really happy. You're so happy. Okay, this is what we would say. A native speaker would say, I'm so happy. I'm so happy right now. We say this all the time. I'm so happy right now. Oh my god, I'm so happy right now. Okay, and the final mistake is that we wouldn't say happy for that. This is um a direct translation from other languages. I know it is. We say, I'm happy about that. I'm happy about that. Happy about that. So if you want to sound good in English, instead of saying, I'm too glad for that, you're gonna say, I'm so happy about that. I'm so happy about that. Or I'm really happy about that. Or you can say, that makes me happy. So I hope those three corrections for one phrase, one sentence helped you. Next one. Thanks, Lau. I have enjoyed really much this video. Okay, so here we have another enjoyment disaster. It's the same thing. I'm gonna give you the same advice that I gave you with the first one at the beginning of the video. I really enjoyed this video, or I enjoyed this video a lot. I just I see this a lot. We have a lot of enjoyment disasters. Everybody wants to express to me how much they love my videos, they enjoy my videos, they like my videos, and I appreciate you. I really do. I appreciate the love, but we're gonna fix, we're gonna fix your expression of this because um it's a little chaotic. You're overcomplicating it. You're using more words than you really need. All right. Let me know if these kinds of videos really help you, or if you prefer other kinds of videos, or what kinds of videos you prefer, what would you like me to talk about? Always let me know in the comments. Okay, have a wonderful day. You're doing great with your English, keep going. You need to make mistakes in order to learn a language and improve, and you also need to identify them and you need somebody to help you identify them sometimes, and then you can fix them and then you get better. All right, so bye bye.