Terrible English tips from social media: part one

It’s not hard to find teachers and coursebooks offering horrible advice on how to speak better English. Made up rules about “conditional forms” are everywhere. Your grammar book has too many chapters about the present perfect. People tell you to use hyper-formal phrases like “Dear Sir or Madam” in your emails. Bad English tips are big business. But the situation on social media is worse than anywhere else. There are tens of thousands of videos and reels where attractive, overly enthusiastic people tell you how to sound “more like a native speaker.” I spent an afternoon watching some of this stuff and was kind of shocked by what’s out there. Just for fun, I thought I’d share some of the worst of it with you. I won’t link to anything or name names though, because I don’t want to start a fight with any of these high-energy, photogenic people. <a href="https://medium.com/@brettmvanderburg/terrible-english-tips-from-social-media-part-one-78455b393ec2">Click Here</a>