| ▲ | TacticalCoder 5 hours ago | |
> What gets me as a non-native speaker far more than "a vs an" is the "a vs the" conundrum. I still don't quite get when something needs to be "indefinite" and I've been speaking English for close to forty years. "a vs the" is quite easy IMO. Most non-native however do not use "that" and "which" properly though. "Give me the floppy disk that is blue" and "Give the floppy disk, which is blue" are two different things. | ||
| ▲ | shoobiedoo 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
My wife is Japanese and fluent in English but still almost always mixes up the and a. I think part of the problem is that it just barely sneaks under the radar of a mistake that is bad enough to confuse English first language speakers in everyday use. So theres no impetus to correct it | ||
| ▲ | mitxela 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Nobody says that. "Give me the blue floppy disk" | ||