Name: Informal Contractions in British English
Uploaded: 2020-10-24T03:40:51.000Z
Duration: 6 min 55 s
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I am your British pronunciation teacher on YouTube.

Now, today we're talking about a kind of touchy topic in the world.

We're talking about informal contractions in formal contractions.

Well, if I was going to say going to occasionally, I might say, Gunner on this is something which a lot of native speakers do.

It's much more common in American English because there are lots of different variations.

K, we have a particular few which are quite common.

Some people use them a little bit sometimes like May, and some people never use them.

Okay, It's not considered good to use them in correct speech or formal speech.

The important word here in informal contractions is the word informal, their informal.

Okay, so we're not going to use them if we're talking to our boss and we're not gonna use them if we're talking to the queen, right.

But when we're in a natural, relaxed, casual conversation, informal conversation with maybe a friend or a family member that sometimes I think it's okay to relax those two words.

I think that's fine to do in an informal conversation sometimes.

Okay, so the main reason I'm teaching you this today is actually to help you with your listening.

If you understand informal contractions, then you won't have any problems if you come to visit the UK or the United States.

Because I guarantee you, if you came to England and you spoke to a native speaker, it's quite likely that you would hear on informal contraction in conversation because some people, like I said, they do use them a lot, so it's good to know them on if you want to use them.

Like I said only in on informal conversation or very relaxed conversation with a friend where you're talking fast on, you want to relax some words.

Let's talk about some of the most common informal contractions in British English.

For example, if I'm trying to organize something with one of my friends, the correct way of me saying this would be do you want a coffee?

But the informal contraction way would be do you want a coffee?

So even do you becomes Do you Do you want a coffee?

So just remember, want, uh, becomes wanna.

So let's practice it in one more situation Where wanna is replacing?

So the reason we're doing this is because number one, we're in an informal conversation.

Number two, we're talking fast, and sometimes it's just a little bit easier to change it.

You don't have to do this like I said, but it's good for your listening.

Next one going to becoming gonna, for example, the correct way I was going to tell you something.

I was gonna tell you something, You know, let's say I'm having a lesson with a student who I'm very, very relaxed with.

I could say today I'm gonna teach you about today.

I'm gonna teach you about Fraser verbs instead off today I'm going to teach you about because I'm more relaxed with that student and I'm talking fast.

Maybe I will use that informal contraction.

But it's not the correct way of speaking.

I really don't recommend that you use this one.

It's not considered very good to use this next one, which is in it, which replaces, isn't it?

But ah, lots of people do use it in the UK, so you need to understand it.

Okay, So for example, if it's cold outside today, I could say it's cold today, isn't it?

So what I'm doing there is instead of saying, isn't it asking for them to agree?

I'm doing it in, um or informal way in it.

This one is considered to be used mawr by people from particular areas of the UK not bad areas, but it's also considered to be used by those who are maybe not so well educated, so I don't particularly recommend it.

So if I need someone to just wait for me, maybe I need to get my coat on before I leave my house and my friend is waiting for me.

I could say in a very polite way and normal way of speaking.

Now, this is a very common abbreviation that we do in the UK.

Only use it with people that you're comfortable with.

Um, not someone that you would be having a formal conversation with.

Okay, I think it's quite straightforward.

Now, contractions in formal contractions are for informal use only.

You don't want to give the wrong impression.

They're much more common in American English.

And also you will hear people use them here.

So it's mawr useful to understand them rather than to use them.

So that's the lesson on informal contractions.

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