The Best Way To Fix Your English Mistakes

Yesterday, I told you the girl at the gym said a sentence in English full of mistakes.

She said, “Please, your sign to the bill.”

You may be wondering, Why is Mr. Vig speaking English when he’s lived in Prague for so long?

That would be a good observation.

The truth is, I got lazy yesterday.

I usually try my Czech when I go to shops, bars, restaurants and the police station.

In fact, just moments ago I was trying to ask the coffee shop guy to grind the coffee beans I had just bought.

Now he’s probably going to go home and write a blog post for his Czech students about all the mistakes I made.

THE CORRECTION

“To sign” is the verb.

“Signature” is the noun.

So she could have either said, “Please sign this” or “I need your signature here.”

And what was I signing?

It wasn’t the bill.

The bill tells you how much you have to pay.

But once you’ve already paid, that’s the receipt.

Best sentence: Please sign the receipt.

HOW TO FIX YOUR MISTAKES

How could this girl have immediately fixed her mistake?

How do you fix your mistakes?

Most students say, Study rules.

Or, Get a teacher to correct you.

But I disagree.

I’ve tried both those methods and the results were underwhelming to say the least.

To hear the method my students use, listen to today’s Atomic Homework.

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