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There is/are and their sound very different in other languages, so I would say that people who speak English as a second language generally make these types of
by xiphias2 4y ago
There is/are and their sound very different in other languages, so I would say that people who speak English as a second language generally make these types of mistakes less often than natural speakers who learned speaking English many years before writing. (We make other types of mistakes more often though).
- icoder 4y agoAs a non-native Enlish speaker I'd like an n=1 'experience' to your n=1 'would say': the English is in my head first and then in writing. So at the time of writing there and their already sound alike and van be easily mixed up
- xiphias2 4y agoThis is true, but I (and you) learned to say and read/write these words at the same time, so we have an advantage over native English speakers in differentiating them. At the same time the poster had a larger vocabulary than I have (which is true for native speakers generally, as I try to stay within simple English).