Errores típicos de hispanohablantes

✗ Mal: an advice o advices → ✓ some advice o a piece of advice. advice es incontable.

Can I give you some advice?

Igual con information, news, furniture, luggage.

✗ Mal: a car red → ✓ a red car. El adjetivo va delante del sustantivo.

He drives a red car.

✗ Mal: arrive to → ✓ arrive in (ciudad o país) o arrive at (un lugar concreto). Con arrive nunca va to.

We arrived at the airport at six.

✗ Mal: in the weekend → ✓ at the weekend (en inglés americano, on the weekend).

We usually go cycling at the weekend.

✗ Mal: assist a class → ✓ attend a class. assist significa «ayudar».

Over two hundred people attended the conference.

✗ Mal: before to leave → ✓ before leaving. Detrás de una preposición va -ing.

Check the windows before leaving.

✗ Mal: in bus → ✓ by bus (o on the bus). Para el medio de transporte va by sin artículo.

I usually go to work by bus.

✗ Mal: realise a study → ✓ carry out a study. realise significa «darse cuenta».

The study was carried out by two universities.

✗ Mal: The children learn quickly (hablando de todos los niños) → ✓ Children learn quickly. Para hablar en general, el plural va sin the.

Children learn languages quickly.

✗ Mal: actually con el sentido de «actualmente» → ✓ currently o at the moment. actually significa «en realidad».

She is currently working in Berlin.

✗ Mal: I'm studying a career in law → ✓ I'm doing a degree in law. career es la trayectoria profesional.

She's doing a degree in chemistry.

✗ Mal: depend of → ✓ depend on. Se traduce «de», pero en inglés va on.

It depends on the weather.

✗ Mal: discuss about → ✓ discuss. El verbo va sin preposición; el sustantivo sí la lleva: a discussion about.

We discussed the plan at the meeting.

✗ Mal: make homework → ✓ do homework. Las tareas y el trabajo van con do.

I do my homework after dinner.

✗ Mal: enter in the room → ✓ enter the room. enter va sin preposición.

Everyone stood up when the teacher entered the room.

✗ Mal: explain me → ✓ explain to me. explain no lleva la persona directamente detrás.

Can you explain to me how it works?

✗ Mal: The party was very funny (si fue divertida) → ✓ The party was great fun. funny es «gracioso, que hace reír».

The trip was great fun.

✗ Mal: go to home → ✓ go home. Con home no va to tras verbos de movimiento.

I went home early.

✗ Mal: good in maths → ✓ good at maths. Para habilidades va at.

He's very good at maths.

✗ Mal: enough good → ✓ good enough. enough va detrás del adjetivo.

The flat isn't big enough for us.

✗ Mal: I am agree → ✓ I agree. agree es un verbo, no un adjetivo.

I agree with you.

✗ Mal: I go always → ✓ I always go. Los adverbios de frecuencia van delante del verbo principal y detrás de be.

She always arrives on time.

✗ Mal: I have twenty years → ✓ I am twenty o I am twenty years old. La edad va con be.

My sister is fifteen.

✗ Mal: I don't know nothing → ✓ I don't know anything. En inglés estándar no se repite la negación: solo una por oración.

There isn't anything in the fridge.

✗ Mal: I like very much football → ✓ I like football very much. No se separa el verbo de su objeto.

She speaks English very well.

✗ Mal: I have seen him yesterday → ✓ I saw him yesterday. Con un momento terminado (yesterday, last year, ago) va el pasado simple.

We visited Rome last summer.

✗ Mal: I use to get up early → ✓ I usually get up early. used to solo habla del pasado; para costumbres actuales se usa usually.

I usually walk to work.

✗ Mal: I wish I have more time → ✓ I wish I had more time. Tras wish, para el presente, el verbo va en pasado.

I wish I had a bigger flat.

✗ Mal: I live here for two years → ✓ I've lived here for two years. Con for y since para algo que sigue hasta ahora va el presente perfecto, no el presente.

She has worked at the hospital since 2019.

✗ Mal: If I would have known → ✓ If I had known. En la oración con if no va would.

If I had known, I would have helped you.

✗ Mal: interested on o interested for → ✓ interested in.

She's interested in photography.

✗ Mal: Is important to sleep well → ✓ It is important to sleep well. El sujeto no se omite.

It is important to drink enough water.

✗ Mal: It's the first time I come here → ✓ It's the first time I've come here. Tras It's the first time va el presente perfecto.

This is the first time I've eaten sushi.

✗ Mal: Can you borrow me your pen? → ✓ Can you lend me your pen? lend es dejar; borrow es pedir prestado.

Could you lend me ten pounds?

✗ Mal: The life is hard → ✓ Life is hard. Los sustantivos abstractos en general van sin the.

Life in a big city can be stressful.

✗ Mal: listen music → ✓ listen to music. listen siempre lleva to delante del objeto.

I listen to the radio in the car.

✗ Mal: do a mistake → ✓ make a mistake.

Everyone makes mistakes when they start.

✗ Mal: She made me to wait → ✓ She made me wait. En activa, make y let van con infinitivo sin to; en pasiva, make lleva to: I was made to wait.

The teacher made us rewrite the essay.

✗ Mal: married with → ✓ married to. «Casado con» es married to.

She is married to a doctor.

✗ Mal: lose the bus → ✓ miss the bus. lose es perder algo que tenías.

Hurry up or we'll miss the train.

✗ Mal: people is → ✓ people are. people es plural.

Most people are very friendly here.

✗ Mal: Remember me to call her → ✓ Remind me to call her. remind es hacer que otro se acuerde.

Please remind me to buy bread.

✗ Mal: responsible of → ✓ responsible for.

Who is responsible for the budget?

✗ Mal: sensible con el sentido de «sensible» → ✓ sensitive. sensible significa «sensato».

She's very sensitive to criticism.

✗ Mal: She is doctor → ✓ She is a doctor. Las profesiones llevan a o an.

My brother is an engineer.

✗ Mal: They robbed my bike → ✓ They stole my bike. Se roba una cosa (steal); rob va con la persona o el lugar.

Someone stole my wallet on the train.

✗ Mal: She said me the truth → ✓ She told me the truth. tell lleva la persona detrás; say no (say to me).

He told me the news yesterday.

✗ Mal: the news are → ✓ the news is. news es incontable y va en singular.

The news is better than we expected.

✗ Mal: In my town has a castle → ✓ In my town there is a castle. «Hay» es there is o there are.

There are two parks near my house.

✗ Mal: think in → ✓ think about o think of. «Pensar en» no es think in.

I'm thinking about changing jobs.

✗ Mal: wait the bus → ✓ wait for the bus. Delante del objeto, wait lleva for.

We waited for the bus for twenty minutes.

✗ Mal: I want that you come → ✓ I want you to come. want va con objeto + to, nunca con that.

I want you to come with me.

✗ Mal: when I will get home → ✓ when I get home. Tras when, as soon as, until, before se usa presente para el futuro.

I'll phone you when I get home.

✗ Mal: Can you tell me where is the station? → ✓ Can you tell me where the station is? En las preguntas indirectas no hay inversión.

Do you know where the station is?