 "his" and "her" mix up
I had a conversation class yesterday with a Spanish guy whose English was pretty good, and conversation flowed very freely. The main mistake that he kept making (very common in Spain) was to mix up "he" and "she", and "his" and "her", so that it was sometimes difficult to know who he was talking about.
The problem is that he knew about the gender difference (and wouldn't have made the mistake had he been writing) -- but because he was talking at a normal pace, not stopping to think, he often chose the wrong word.
Is there any trick a language student can use to lessen the frequency of such mistakes while maintaining a good conversational speed? |