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I am curious about common grammatical mistakes made by English native speakers.

I only know that some native speakers confuse "look forward to doing" with "look forward to do".

Are there any other common mistakes that native speakers tend to make or you have encountered? 

 There are several ways to express future tense in English.  

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will

be going to do

will be doing

 be doing (continuous tense)

be about to 

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All of them are used as future tense and I found them a bit tricky.

Are there actual differences in nuances between them?

Recently, I heard native speakers of languages that have similar roots, such as Spanish and Portuguese, Italian and French are able to understand each other more than 50%. Does anyone have an idea for this?

As I learn English more and more, I realize English has numerous interesting metaphorical phrases like Japanese language. For example, people mean they stay late at night for studying by saying "burn the midnight oil". Metaphorical phrases using animals and fruits, veggies such as " eat like a horse", "as cool as a cucumber" and "lemon" imply that we have a completely different image towards such things. For example, in Japan, a pig is regarded as a big eater and veggies and fruits are not used as a metaphor. Instead, we use many phrases relating to our body parts. We say "Your mouth is stiff." to indirectly mean "You always keep a secret" and "My nose is crooked." to mean "It's stinky." Don't you think these phrases sound funny? 

If your language has unique metaphorical phrases like these, share on this forum :)

みなさんが日本語をべんきょうしようとおもったきっかけ・りゆうをおしえてください。

また、日本語でいちばんむずかしいとおもうことをおしえてください。

Konnichiwa! 

こんにちは！

I am Yuka from Japan. If you want to learn Japanese language, I am here to assist you :)

わたしは日本出身のゆかと言います。もし日本語を勉強したいなら、私がサポートします:)

I am looking for useful learning materials and passionate learners on this platform.

このプラットフォームでは役に立つ教材(きょうざい)と熱心(ねっしん)な学習者を探しています。

I hope we can brush up our language proficiency together! 

一緒に語学力をみがけると嬉しいです！

In Japan, people use different dialects depending on the region they are originally form and the same thing is true in other country. Today, I would like to get an answer of the topic "Do native English speakers from different countries understand each other smoothly?". It is apparent that people from different regions speak in a different accent and use unique slangs, but does it make them difficult to communicate with each other? If you have any idea, please share on this forum! Thanks :)