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"English at Once" is a blog that intends to become a guide for students, offering help and showing tips to avoid the most common grammar mistakes. You will find, once a week, an entry with an error and how it must be corrected. You will also find tips for the writing or the oral, the typical "False Friends" and everything you need to speak a better English. Welcome on board! Welcome to English at Once!
The common mistake is to think that 'actually' stands for 'actualmente' in spanish.
'Actually' means 'in fact' or 'en realidad' in spanish.
Example:
- You're English, aren't you?
- No, actually, I'm Irish
Here we have a case of
FALSE FRIENDS, words that appear to mean the same in English and Spanish but don't.
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