NEG - lifting affect your learning - YouTube
When learning a foreign language, it is easy to make mistakes in our own language. One of these errors are not clear even for English speakers, a phenomenon known as negative lift. Compare what seems the most common phrases for English speakers:
I think I do not understand. Versus I do not think I understand.
The second sentence is more common. However, with acts such as hope and desire, and English is not negative at all:
I hope it will not rain. I hope not against the rain.
But if you keep the negatives in other languages ​​such as German or Chinese, you speak in sentences that seem awkward and embarrassing, such as "I do not hope it rains."
I think I do not understand. Versus I do not think I understand.
The second sentence is more common. However, with acts such as hope and desire, and English is not negative at all:
I hope it will not rain. I hope not against the rain.
But if you keep the negatives in other languages ​​such as German or Chinese, you speak in sentences that seem awkward and embarrassing, such as "I do not hope it rains."
NEG - lifting affect your learning - YouTube
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