Almost All English Learners Make This Mistake
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm over the last week almost
all of my students have made this
mistake so today i’m going to help you
not make it again let’s get started over
the past week on skype i have heard my
students say a lot
I almost watch English movies with
English subtitles
I almost watch means I was going to
watch it and then I decided not to
I almost watch English movies with
English subtitles but this is not really
what my students mean to say what they
want to say is almost all of the time
when I watch English movies I use
English subtitles most of the time I use
English subtitles the word that they
don’t use is all almost all of the time
so today I want to help you learn three
expressions with the word almost almost
always almost never and almost all let’s
start with the first one the first
expression with almost is almost always
almost always this is an important
expression to use because it’s very rare
that we do something always I always
breathe I always eat every day yes these
are things we do always but for most
things in our lives we don’t do them
always we do them almost always so my
first sample sentence with almost always
is I almost always eat breakfast because
when I wake up I’m starving
almost every morning I eat breakfast I
almost always eat breakfast the
expression almost always needs to come
before the verb I almost always eat I
almost always walk to work I almost
always drink water in the morning you
almost always do something the next step
it’s my students almost always watch the
videos that I send them before the
lesson but before my skype lessons with
private students I almost always send
them a video that they can watch to
prepare and practice English before we
speak together and almost always they
watch it this is something that is great
for helping them to prepare for the
lesson and I think the students realize
it so they almost always do it the next
expression with almost is almost never
almost never but there’s a little bit of
a different pronunciation for this this
expression because after almost there is
a consonant and almost never the T gets
cut out so in American English we would
say almost never I almost never so let
me give you some sample sentences and
listen for this pronunciation almost
never when I was younger we almost never
ate fish because it was expensive and
pretty unusual for the area of the US
where I grew up we almost never ate fish
or you could say he used to practice
English every day and now he almost
never practices English he almost never
speaks English anymore
almost never let’s see the third way we
can use almost the final way we can use
almost is almost all almost all and in
this one the T is pronounced almost all
almost all so we could say almost all of
my co-workers speak my native language
so I don’t have many chances to use
English at work almost all of my
co-workers or you could say I didn’t
realize that almost all English learners
have trouble finding someone to speak
English with I didn’t realize that
almost all English learners almost all
not all English learners almost all now
it’s your turn
I want you in
comments of this video to write a
sentence using almost always or almost
never or almost all you can use all of
them or you can use one it’s your choice
this is your chance to practice English
I’m looking forward to reading your
sample sentences and I’ll talk to you
later good bye