{"id":55901,"date":"2019-10-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/native-english-mistakes\/"},"modified":"2024-01-10T11:27:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T10:27:22","slug":"native-english-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"9 mistakes native English speakers make"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Native speakers often make mistakes that language learners don&#8217;t. Read on to discover our top nine common English mistakes from our teacher, Laura.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9442],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>9 mistakes native English speakers make - Lingoda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Native English speakers don\u2019t make mistakes, do they? Yes, they do. Check out these nine common mistakes native speakers make.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"9 mistakes native English speakers make\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Native English speakers don\u2019t make mistakes, do they? Yes, they do. Check out these nine common mistakes native speakers make.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lingoda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lingoda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-10T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-01-10T10:27:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Native-English-Mistakes-That-Foreigners-Dont-Make-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1077\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Laura Jones\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@lingoda\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@lingoda\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Laura Jones\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Laura Jones\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/8c20da8e7af0f904e7b8edc7d936c31f\"},\"headline\":\"9 mistakes native English speakers make\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-10T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-01-10T10:27:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/\"},\"wordCount\":710,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Native-English-Mistakes-That-Foreigners-Dont-Make-2.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Learning materials for English learners\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/\",\"name\":\"9 mistakes native English speakers make - Lingoda\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Native-English-Mistakes-That-Foreigners-Dont-Make-2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-10T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-01-10T10:27:22+00:00\",\"description\":\"Native English speakers don\u2019t make mistakes, do they? Yes, they do. Check out these nine common mistakes native speakers make.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Native-English-Mistakes-That-Foreigners-Dont-Make-2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Native-English-Mistakes-That-Foreigners-Dont-Make-2.jpg\",\"width\":1077,\"height\":560,\"caption\":\"A man with a thinking face wondering about mistakes native english speakers make\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Learning materials for English learners\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/category\/learning-materials-en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"9 mistakes native English speakers make\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Lingoda\",\"description\":\"The Online Language School\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Lingoda\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lingoda-logo_horizontal_standard_coloured.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lingoda-logo_horizontal_standard_coloured.svg\",\"width\":588,\"height\":193,\"caption\":\"Lingoda\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lingoda\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/lingoda\",\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/lingoda_official\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/lingoda-gmbh\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC6AYbs_IpIj5uwwL_8PlVyw\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/8c20da8e7af0f904e7b8edc7d936c31f\",\"name\":\"Laura Jones\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3043c87a76a1a5c97e6461a98dea6ec5?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3043c87a76a1a5c97e6461a98dea6ec5?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Laura Jones\"},\"description\":\"Laura is a freelance writer and was an ESL teacher for eight years. She was born in the UK and has lived in Australia and Poland. She loves travelling and that\u2019s the other major topic that she writes on. Laura likes pilates and cycling, but when she\u2019s feeling lazy she can be found curled up watching Netflix. She\u2019s currently learning Polish, and her battle with that mystifying language has given her huge empathy for anyone struggling to learn English. Find out more about her work in her portfolio.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/author\/laurajones\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"9 mistakes native English speakers make - Lingoda","description":"Native English speakers don\u2019t make mistakes, do they? Yes, they do. Check out these nine common mistakes native speakers make.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"9 mistakes native English speakers make","og_description":"Native English speakers don\u2019t make mistakes, do they? Yes, they do. Check out these nine common mistakes native speakers make.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/","og_site_name":"Lingoda","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lingoda","article_published_time":"2019-10-10T00:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-01-10T10:27:22+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1077,"height":560,"url":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Native-English-Mistakes-That-Foreigners-Dont-Make-2.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Laura Jones","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@lingoda","twitter_site":"@lingoda","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Laura Jones","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/"},"author":{"name":"Laura Jones","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/8c20da8e7af0f904e7b8edc7d936c31f"},"headline":"9 mistakes native English speakers make","datePublished":"2019-10-10T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2024-01-10T10:27:22+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/"},"wordCount":710,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Native-English-Mistakes-That-Foreigners-Dont-Make-2.jpg","articleSection":["Learning materials for English learners"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/","url":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/","name":"9 mistakes native English speakers make - Lingoda","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Native-English-Mistakes-That-Foreigners-Dont-Make-2.jpg","datePublished":"2019-10-10T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2024-01-10T10:27:22+00:00","description":"Native English speakers don\u2019t make mistakes, do they? Yes, they do. Check out these nine common mistakes native speakers make.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Native-English-Mistakes-That-Foreigners-Dont-Make-2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Native-English-Mistakes-That-Foreigners-Dont-Make-2.jpg","width":1077,"height":560,"caption":"A man with a thinking face wondering about mistakes native english speakers make"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/native-english-mistakes\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Learning materials for English learners","item":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/category\/learning-materials-en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"9 mistakes native English speakers make"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/","name":"Lingoda","description":"The Online Language School","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#organization"},"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Lingoda","url":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lingoda-logo_horizontal_standard_coloured.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lingoda-logo_horizontal_standard_coloured.svg","width":588,"height":193,"caption":"Lingoda"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lingoda","https:\/\/x.com\/lingoda","https:\/\/instagram.com\/lingoda_official","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/lingoda-gmbh","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC6AYbs_IpIj5uwwL_8PlVyw"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/8c20da8e7af0f904e7b8edc7d936c31f","name":"Laura Jones","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3043c87a76a1a5c97e6461a98dea6ec5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3043c87a76a1a5c97e6461a98dea6ec5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Laura Jones"},"description":"Laura is a freelance writer and was an ESL teacher for eight years. She was born in the UK and has lived in Australia and Poland. She loves travelling and that\u2019s the other major topic that she writes on. Laura likes pilates and cycling, but when she\u2019s feeling lazy she can be found curled up watching Netflix. She\u2019s currently learning Polish, and her battle with that mystifying language has given her huge empathy for anyone struggling to learn English. Find out more about her work in her portfolio.","url":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/author\/laurajones\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55901"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78899,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55901\/revisions\/78899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}