This is a collection of funny mistakes made by learners of English as a second language on their English classes.

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1. Submitted by:Dirce
   A friend in a restaurant:
   
   Waiter, Could you bring me some napkins (kidnaps), please?
   
   
2. Submitted by: Simon D.
   From a student's essay:
   
   When I got home, I had a message (massage) on the answering machine.
   
   
3. Sent in a message by a technical support specialist:
   
   Feel free to contact me if you have (cause) any problems.
   
   
4. Said while talking about daily routines:
   
   In the morning, I get up at seven o'clock; clean my teeth (tooth);
   have breakfast; and go to work.
   
   
5. Said by a student talking about differences between men and women:
   
   I like the opposite (to) sex very much.
   
   
6. Written in a progress test by a sweet seventeen-year-old girl:
   
   I haven't had any mail (male) for more than a month.
   
   
7. The phrase was said by a student who had just been given another
   handout at the end of the lesson:
   
   Excuse me. Is this the last sheet (shit) for today?
   
   
8. From a writing task in a progress test:
   
   I think that education in Ukraine is bad (bed).
   
   
9. A quite common mistake:
   
   She has (a) long black hair.
   He has short fair hair (hairs).
   
   
10. A typical mistake from a Headway Elementary Progress Test:
    
    They (are) like travelling by bus.

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