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  • - Hello, everyone!

  • Welcome back to English with Lucy.

  • I have got a seriously important lesson for you today

  • and this lesson is going to help you understand

  • native speakers and sound more native yourself.

  • So what are we going to talk about today?

  • Well, we're going to talk about reductions.

  • I'm going to show you how to correctly use words like

  • wanna and gonna.

  • I use them all the time in daily conversations.

  • It's not good English, but it is colloquial,

  • conversational English and you will hear it

  • and you probably will want to learn to use it,

  • because saying I want to and I'm going to all the time

  • can be pretty tiresome.

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  • So, you've probably heard native speakers use words like

  • wanna and gonna.

  • Now, because it's a colloquial word,

  • there are some variations in spelling.

  • I have seen it written wanna,

  • which is what I would tend to use and also wonna.

  • And I've seen gonna and gunna as well.

  • But, the pronunciation stays the same.

  • Wanna. Gonna.

  • Not ganna, it's gonna.

  • Not wonna, it's wanna.

  • Now, the first word that I want to talk about is wanna.

  • Now, wanna means want to.

  • Want to.

  • I wanna go home.

  • I want to go home.

  • Now this is fine when we use it with

  • I, you, we, and they.

  • I wanna go home, you wanna go home, we wanna go home,

  • and they wanna go home.

  • That's fine, the problem arises

  • when we want to use he, she, or it.

  • Why? Well, because we have to use the third person singular.

  • Now, I want to,

  • but she wants to.

  • So wanna changes to wansta.

  • Wansta.

  • He wansta go home, she wansta go home,

  • it wansta go home.

  • So, you must remember that if it's he, she, or it,

  • it's not wanna, it's wansta.

  • You have to make sure that the verb and the subject agree.

  • Now, moving on to gonna.

  • Gonna means going to and the biggest mistake that I hear

  • is that students forget to use it with the verb to be.

  • I am going, you are going to be going.

  • I always hear I gonna go, she gonna go, we gonna do.

  • That's wrong, it needs to be

  • I'm gonna go, she's gonna go, we're gonna do.

  • The other error that students tend to make with gonna

  • is to do with the pronunciation of

  • the third person singular, again.

  • I'm gonna go, you're gonna go, we're gonna go,

  • they're gonna go is fine.

  • But, as she and he both finish with a vowel sound,

  • which is voiced, we need to use the zz sound.

  • She's gonna go, he's gonna go.

  • If you want to sound native, you must do that.

  • If you say she's gonna go or he's gonna go,

  • I immediately recognise that you're not a native speaker.

  • Of course, people will understand you,

  • but if you want to speak like a native,

  • then that's what you need to do.

  • Now with it, on the other hand,

  • as t is an unvoiced consonant,

  • we use the ss sound after it.

  • So she's gonna, he's gonna, it's gonna.

  • Now I hope that clarified your doubts

  • about the reductions wanna and gonna.

  • Remember, not ganna, it's gonna.

  • Not wonna, it's wanna.

  • Remember, there are various different spellings,

  • but I would advise against using them in written English.

  • It's something that we tend to use more speaking.

  • Now, remember that your subject has to agree with the verb.

  • Wanna, I wanna, he or she wansta.

  • Remember to use the verb to be with gonna.

  • And the pronunciation she's gonna, he's gonna, it's gonna.

  • Okay, that's everything.

  • I hope to see you very, very soon for another lesson.

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  • and I'll see you for another lesson very, very soon.

  • Muah!

- Hello, everyone!

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