Comment by torginus
2 years ago
I also learned English from textbooks, and one of the strangest things I encountered that native speakers routinely confuse "their, there, they're" which I never thought was a mistake I could make. It would be like confusing 'wet' and 'vet'. So there's definitely a difference between native and non-native speakers use the language.
The people who confuse that mostly have not done very much reading. Audibly, those words are identical.
Even crazier:
“Could of”.
Like “You could of said so”.