How NOT to Learn English

thank you for this lesson! :)

rusia

I like these videos

subhanullah

Very precious Tips
Ty

kotoz

thumbs up

qjbabar

Thanks Sir James,I’ve learned a lot :-)Please more lesson to come.

joneru

The same here. Thank you so much James.

Juan

hahahahahaha i laughed a lot when i saw your video thank you

ghghso

Thank you very much for This lesson (^^)
Indeed, it was fun and useful lesson
And I Thank you sir and rest of the teachers for all the effort you making for us
I really have asked you something

In the next July I will travel in my honeymoon
So I need lessons let me know what to say at the airports and the hotels
plz helps my

hoza3

ha ha))) very funny lesson)))) I appreciate you!)

lezgin

its really amazing lesson it was so funny I wish it was longer than this…..any way I have a question I see this sentence in my book”at glance sentences for Lee brandon” (she had not eaten since the clock struck twelve ) is it right sentence ? because I think the first action is “the clock struck twelve” hence it must be”she did not eaten since the clock had stuck twelve” because as I think its past perfect sentence so why do they consider it like this?

leelian

Thank you very much

Vannak

I enjoy watching your videos. Thank you! I wish to learn more! More success to http://www.engvid.com

Joanne

thank u teacher :) i hope the best for u
may God protect u

yemen's girl

i’m yemen’s girl i created an acount today in this site bec it’s the most wonderful site . thanks or all teacher work in this site . :)
i hope the best life for all :)

shosho20

bec = because
thanks for all*

shosho20

thanks a million for every lesson you’ve made !
Fun & Useful at the same time :D ..I really enjoyed watchin’ yours <3

sara

Thanks for a great lesson I am learning from those videos :D

Bl@ck Leopard

You are so funny!!!hahahahhh…anyway, i Love it!!! :D thank you teacher…

maekim13

Thank you James.I think No.5 is toughest thing in studying English.

Sohyun

James, you are such a great teacher. thank you and please keep teaching us.

JAKUZA

I understand you have to mark the pitfalls students fall into while learning English, BUT:

1) What’s wrong with repeating phrases heard on TV, movies, music etc. if one wants to talk English as naturally as a TV reporter, an actor, a singer etc.?
2) There’s no such thing as translating one language to another but only adapting and for that you need a (bi-cultural) human being.
3) Isn’t this the way elementary English is taught all over the World? I feel that’s true only for learners that want to improve.
4) Travelling around the World I’ve always found people (particularly in shops) talking with fancy accents trying to serve customers, so I guess this point has to be related with situations.
5) Again that depends on what you want to use the English language for. Can’t an Italian tourist try to eat Pasta in a Canadian restaurant? ;-)

Mauro

Mauro, calm down and relax, there is nothing you have to worry about :)

Merlin

Hi James, I tested quiz, and it do not match with lesson, your lesson provide clear instructions about how to lern wrong english, and I have a fault by each answer of quiz. So as result I expected to have perfect score, but result is “0 out of 5”, I will try forn correct perpective of correct English.

Sergio

ok, 5/5 using correct Englis as you teach, many thanks!

Sergio

T_T English ‘s difficult. But I’ll try and try.

nandcy

Hello teacher James I like the way you tech English, I´d like you to make a lesson about body language remember you promised sometime ago !

regards

bigboy85

hi James!God,I love the way you teach and talk!You’re literally my hero))) everything you’re saying is totally true,that’s what I also say to my students. And, “obsequious” is one of my favorite words)))so thanks and keep on doing this!

Olga

Thank you very much, Mr. Jame

Tung

I like your lessons, they are very helpful.

bonia

Dear James! If you have the text of your lesson, could you send it on my e-mail – vadimchan[ a t ] mail [ d o t ] ru, if you want and please.

Vadim

I wanted to know if you could clarify the correct usage of still and yet.

harry

thank you sir

anu/neha

why you are so lovely teacher James…

Shahen

teacher James I appreciate your help,thanks alot

Shahen

thank alot

majeed14

Thanks Mr. James

Florentina

its bad :(

maymeeztim222

where are the bad things??

ummmm …. Realy it’s great!!!!

david avia

whats wrong if you dont like these lessons dont whatch it ok

engstudent

Please more lesson to come

maymeeztim222

thxxxxxx so muchh

mona

thanks all for this information

mona

Thanks so much!!!

Tatiana

he has to had a window seat. is his correct?when we can use have had or has had in the same sentence?

shadabraheel

Thank so much!!

nhatpham

Thank you a lot james for your teaching us how to learn english more.

Esrom

esromtk

Great tips, I love it. Thanks james.

RuiHendra

Please come to France !

I’m studying english and spanish at university in Paris , and I really appreciate these lessons beacause I feel relax when I take my grammar exam !

I’rather prefer to have an english teacher then french one , because you make the things more understandable and easier for us !

Des bisous de France !! ( kisses from France)

sophia

… and always whith a good mood !

sophia

5/5 :D

David

Thank you James very very much. You realy helped me. I learned all your lessons.

hayk86

your to fast i cant understand you
sorry….

naweed

thank u Mr. James for the lesson.

ghadeer

Thanks Mr. Jame for your lesson. I can get your some ideas but I don’t still understand clearly. You speak so fast…

nhoc_tieuphuong

hhhhhhh i love you Ms.James and you Ms.Evil

nazei

Very funny teacher….

chopin

nice lessons..thank you Mr James..

mercy

thankyou

Adebah

Hi James!

you are a good teacher..so funny!

erasmim

thank ypu very much mr james i like your way of teaching your funny and understable

jeffrey

You are awesome!

shine

thanks uve a funny way 2 learn english

joy

thank’s a lot 4 the lesson

i’ll keep going on !!!

butterfly02

very enjoyable lesson. thanks for the advice.

irene

Hi, James! What are differences between

1) yours – your , my – mine and etc.

2) “etc.” and “so on”

Vadim

Its a chance for us to learn English.Here are so many chapters and videos in every chapter which makes us easy to learn .Every chapter and video is useful for me, but i am confused which one should i learn at first?
Please let me to know if there is any better way to use this site.For example serial of study. Which one should learn at first and, then after…then after…

It would be a pleasure for me if i get some instruction at my email …
Thank you!

Seru

i’m so lucky ,,i really get benefit from this lesson ,thank u so much , i wish if i am one of ur student ,u really have a special way in teaching which i like it so much . thx a gain ^_^

asma

Hi James, you are so funny !! but I like how you teach us.
In my job, I often give presentation to show some graph of work performance, could you teach also how to explain graph (such as bar chart, line chart, pie chart etc ) ? thanks in advance

budich

I love it this video :)

jabr8879

I guess we can mix all this types of learning and speaking English on the same way. No matter e-translator or just a book, here plays your intellect!

Yernur Alseitov

Hi. I would like to tell you I love this website and your lessons as well. I like Rebeca’s clear and understandable speech, Ronnie’s crazy way of teaching but my favourite is James. I wish I had teachers like you folks:). Keep it going. Greetings from Poland.

Ghost of Grandpa

Sorry It was worst lesson I have seen

Great!!!

talles

I love teacher James!
When I watch his classes, my mom asks me why I´m LOL!

Adriano

Thanx all of your team EngVid

fazalmoneer

Someone can learn a lot from your lessons James. You are absolutely my favorite teacher! :)

irene

Thank you.. You guyz are really nice at teaching things well..

M. L. Prince

hahaha. I am learning while having fun! This is so cool just like the Vocabulary Pyramid. You are so great Teacher James! It’s 2:00 am in our time but I’m still awake because I want to finish all of your videos. Thank you so much for a wonderful lesson! I enjoyed watching your videos! :)

princesapple24

You are an excellent teacher. I really like your all lessons and your lessons so enjoyable.
God bless you… Keep up.

alghannam87

I can’t understand every words, but I will try to listen again and again untill I understand.

Thank you. 555

salvedge

Hi,James!
Thank you for teaching English. I live in Japan.
I’ve never been to Canada.I’d like to go to Canada.

yoko0811

thank u

jamal

Great lesson sir.

lashari9

James, hundred times thank you!!! It’s so real. I spent the last 7 months in B’Ham learning english. And I can recognise your 5 “rules not to use”. It’s up to ourself to decide between the easy way or the real way to learn. I chose the real way. thank you for your advices.

Rick

thanks for the test

Reina

Hi,
How cold book that you hold! Cambodia!!!
Have you been to Cambodia my friend?

najo

Mr. engVid has been to Cambodia :D

And he loves it.

engVid

Hi,
I’m najo again. I just made a mistake for my comment above. i just want to correct the word cold to cool. thank

najo

just want to make a correction: How cool the book that you have!

najo

hehehe….. you’re funny…. hehehe….

regina

it’s not as good as ronnie

shujath

you are stupid man

engstudent

Everything you said in this lesson is true.

hotsteam

James, you’re so fun when copying german or indinan accent :). Thank you for the lesson!

ru_alt

Shokran for advice

malaktta

i’m waiting for more lessons to come….i really enjoy learning from u

sally

hi sir i luv watching ur videos bt i hav a questn tht wt do u mean by the sentence ”gotta go” wht is the meaning of word ”gotta” plz reply .

jitu

It’s an informal contraction of “got to”

engVid

Hi James! :)
I really enjoy watching your video, I love your sense of humour so so much :D I’m laughing a lot when I listen to you! :D well done! and never change! :D Regards from Poland!

Karolina

James, you are the best teacher.

Vadim

James,

In yours class when I take quiz I do not score more than 50%????

CREBIO AVILA

how to use he dos not he do not

mohd

i like your style in teaching English. Thanks for your helps!

lotus

Thank you so much james. i from malaysia…thank you…thank you for this lesson..you are the best teacher…

moco

bundle of thanks my teachers and engvid team. i like this. it will really improve my English thanks once again.

shewakhan

Sir your lesson is really interesting .But i think you are over smart.And over smartness isn’t good for you.

jeny sabu

thank you
god bless u

my teacher

hanyadieb

sir it is really intrsting lssn but u should not be too over smart.

jeny sabu

James is great!!

Ian

i like your way of teaching.

keith

Wow! I made a lot of mistakes by using that electronic dictionary ALL THE TIME.

Saak Sen

funny u are .made me laugh till cry ^_^
wish i was in your class :)
and i wish people talk English ,but they don’t care about it in our society :(

Shayma EL.

Ha! Ha! Its encourage me most to learn best English….

totong

Dear Sir I ‘am new Student in this lessones Hope you provide me to I learn English More than this time ,for this Just I watched this video ,it was very useful for me
Thank you so much
sharafuddin Ghiacy

ghiacy1

This man is crazy! Keep your good work!

lari

Hello James (or Cptn Kirk?) hahahah so funny. You are a great teacher but, could you speak a bit slowly please? or you may put subtitles, no? Thank you very much. I like your lessons. XO

mariadela64

This one is hilarious, so good so true. Thanks James!

Max

Thank you so much for this video, it’s amazingly funny and useful. You’ve made me think about spending more time with good paper dictionaries… on the other hand, using electronic dicts in trips could be still very good practice.

dimgenich

Thankssssssssssss James

david avia

Thank you very much

testtj

you are awesome..

ajay

I love your video, it is useful and funny. Thanks!

August

Thank you, very usefull lesson!
Many greetings from germany!

Manuel

Hi James. I like your video, it´s rally useful for me, because English is very difficult. But, Can you Speak more slowly next time? Please. Thank you.

Sally S

i listen everyday your lessons but i ask a favour try to speak more slowly,,congratulations

Michael

good lesson I know now how not to learn english. So how to learn english then? For points 4 and 5 which one is really your favorite one mister James? By the way thank a lot.

mdiome

Thanks very much, but it is difficult to understand all the information with details, only the main idea.

eugeniy90

I’d like to ask you why can’t I begin the quizes. Pushing the button “Next” doesn’t change anything.

eugeniy90

thank you MR james the lesson is funny and, yet useful thank u again

hadi

thank u all teachers

mahesh

very interesting way of teaching. Excelent!

enatica

thank you James!!! Your lessons are very funny but thanks to this are really helpfull:))

tuerredda

your lessons are always helpful^^
thank you~

Alicia

thank you alot teacher james . I love your lessons and I hope you could make more lessons in advanced levels.

fatimah

hi james funny lesson you are a great teacher I love your lessons more lessons please

engstudent

thank you, the lesson was very funy and interesting.

Valentin

so funny ^^. thank you so much.

trangzin

thank you super james and thx for both mr.evil E and mr.good E :)

abdotwati82

That’s very helpful for me , sir James. And I hope you’ll always have good English lessons for us as English learners from many countries. So thanks a lot for now !!:D

Amphon

Thanks for this lesson!!! (I go to part 2!)

rick1234

Thanks for all the lesson,you people are very at teaching english,james is too funny

Adil.phulpoto

JAmes: Thanks for the lesson, and I think, probably I’m getting a little bit behind from all you just sayd, I got to listen very carefull, and by the way I practically don’t have any contact with native english speakers. Thanks for this opportunity.
MArio

mario

اشكرك جدا

yousef

thanks to you sair

yousef

Hi teacher,
I’ve heard “I was on my plane leaving, because I was in hers breathe of being late” and “have a half the dog that bit you last night”
What do you mean by that, please?

hashimone

Thanks

minoo.mofidi

its toooo funnny
James you are the Best

fazttls

thank you james for all your lessons.they are all helpful.thanks again

sam

Very useful lesson thanks man .

lostdel

You are awsome !
I wonder if you have a script before …becouse it seems to be so fluent without eeeee….. yyyyyyyyyy…. an so on .

Greetings from POLAND .

gosiakowalska

i will replace money .

sumit

Waaaw! I like it.
This is what i need!
Thank you so mutch!

ivanko86

Thank you.
Now,I know why I am not good at English.
HA HA HA^^

babeam

Fantastiiiiic!

fatiima8

Hello there! I’m really interested in almost all of your lessons! I watched most of them and I can’t help but to register to this website because you mentioned my country “Cambodia”. Guess what? I’m the first Cambodian that gives you this comment not only for this lesson but also for this whole website! Feel free to contact me if you really visit Cambodia! Lolz

mostom

great teacher!

matds

I’m really thankful with you, your lessons are fantastic and your explanations the clearest possible. I hope you can continue making videos for us, we really appreciate the great effort you make. Thank you, Mr. James.

Michel

Wonderful class, Carry on this way James,congratulations.

Sérgio(Brazil)

good information to learn english.

bruce

Thank yo so much!!! That’s like an outbreak throgh the mess in my head

enca

thanx for this informative lesson i think u are the best in engvid

sashwat

hi sir james, i like the way you teach it’s so inspiring and funny but im not fluent in english well, but i will try to watch more videos from you to learn a lot pls. send me an email for some tips here’s my email japmil_14@yahoo.com thank you sir james (from philippines)

camz

This time the quiz was easy maybe next time can you do it harder.

octaviocasas

You are a good example of being a great teacher.
Thank you so much for this lesson Teacher James.

mrcifucar

I love your lesson…^^…

Quynh Le

thank you sir james for give me these tip and ideas. i really improve my hear thank you very much. i like it your videos

andrewsssss

Great in one word

Liam payne

Thanks for this amazing lesson, James, in the second question there is a mistake, i read: practise and it’s practice

karem95

there are…

karem95

James, you’re a great teacher.

I love your lessons very much!

yankhonskiy

You’re spending more important things than money… James, you’re right! But I get result!(When I watch EngVid.)

yankhonskiy

Dear James,

First of all, thank you for so interesting and useful lessons.
One question has appeared by my side after watching the video. It is about “I am loving it”. So, I have heard, that in advanced grammar this case can exist, for example, “While she is skating here, she is loving it”, something like that. I am sorry about the example was stupid, but I hope the idea was clear. Please, could you explain this case?
Thank you in advance!

P.S. Another common mistake with “I saying” is “I’m say” :)

anastasiaa

thank u james u r the best

sabbar

Hahah! James, you have a great sense of humour! Thanks for your fabulous lessons. They are easy and very useful.

missannie

useful for me and i just wanna ask how can i find the”best ways” to study Eng. ??

jackywong

thanks a lot james sir.

rashel_khan

thanks you,

i went to talk some people .. who know good english .. but did’t know how to find a man who can talk with me. if have any good people please add me on Skype : rashel_khan

rashel_khan

Good way to attract an attention of students and made them concentrating on your lesson.Thanks

Falcon

i am pleased to learn from you.

whisper89

thank you for funny lessons

javahir

thank you so mush for these lessons it really helps me a lot…

assala19

ho thanks …
excellent lesson, don’t forget uploading more videos

elkrespo

Great!!! Thanks a lot from Russia

guzelf

Great information. Thank you for teaching us.

should

Thanks for the lesson,i love it,i like it,and i will always remember it
*a brofist from indonesia*(if you dont know brofist,dont read everything between the stars).

pops911

*returns brofist*

engVid Moderator

Ummm,james i want to ask you a question,what does county mean*thanks*

pops911

You know how countries are divided into states, provinces or districts? Well, in some places states/provinces/districts are divided into counties. A county usually has several towns or cities in it.

engVid Moderator

From Athens….Hi teacher!! you are awesome.

pafsilipoclub

Hi James
I invite you to visit me in Saudi Arabia to see the beauty of the state and its their customs , I wait you

hiam1993

You said a lot of things that are the same i thought about. We, that we aren’t native speaking english, did a lot of mistakes. You point out the problem.

fernandojrbr

This lesson may be useful the presentation way bored me a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

murli

It is very easay and funy,thank you!

sil2012

Well done! Really a good lesson! Thank you!

dorycam

Thank you very much. I like your speed and you look happy while teaching.

Thank you

Nopp

this lesson will help me so much. thank you

Rafaellenglish

Thank you very much you are the best.
My skype : happy..skype

Engvid84

Hi James,
thanks a lot. You are fabulous teacher :)
take care

cep62

best teaching vid i’ve seen for ages. very entertaining

Smart99surfer

I can’t thank you enough.

Iamhere.

you make me watch videos 2 hs , thank you a lot!!!!

gbdadx

do you have student from Syria :) Like me :)

Zakaria88

Thank you for the lesson)

Albert770

Excellent lesson, thank you

MONIKE72

There are so much fun in your lesson!It was verry useful and funny,thank you so much!

MisterNelsoN

As usual, this is a nice and useful lesson… Thanks James :)

Perlamar

I would bet with you, James, about e-dictionary. When I am typing the word I memorize it better. So I can learn it later, because my e-dictionary has the such option. I do exersises with words I need to remember. And e-dictionary remember all my searchings. So it force me to memorize all of them.

OksanaK

Thanks for your advices

VictorMario

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this lesson

sween121

how cool are you. Ronnie and you are my favorite..

pgansukh

Super lesson

eminha

I am not gangsta, I am a Russian emigrant :D

MustafinVadim

Thanks you so much, you are the best.

Marta Lopez

this is awesome

Nicholas Low

I have to review the lesson again because I am a little confuse. Thanks a lot, teacher James Greer from EngVid, we are learning step by step.

angardiobel

We don’t have to do the five steps that you have written, now I have a little more conscious about the situation and about the questionary, it’s healthy to know the answer to a problem like a quiz, we are more relaxed after passing this small exam. Thanks teacher James.

angardiobel

Sir help me to apprise about reporter’s reporting ways like I’m here standing near the dead body the man is found dead ….something like that…

Anbesh

Thanks you so much. I’m an old man (60) german native and learning englisch.
Your lessons the best. Believe it or not since i found your lessons on the Internet Progress !!!!!