How to use 'wanna' and 'gonna' CORRECTLY | SOUND LIKE A NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKER*

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- Hello, everyone!
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Welcome back to English with Lucy.
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I have got a seriously important lesson for you today
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and this lesson is going to help you understand
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native speakers and sound more native yourself.
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So what are we going to talk about today?
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Well, we're going to talk about reductions.
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I'm going to show you how to correctly use words like
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wanna and gonna.
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I use them all the time in daily conversations.
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It's not good English, but it is colloquial,
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conversational English and you will hear it
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and you probably will want to learn to use it,
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because saying I want to and I'm going to all the time
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can be pretty tiresome.
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So, you've probably heard native speakers use words like
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wanna and gonna.
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Now, because it's a colloquial word,
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there are some variations in spelling.
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I have seen it written wanna,
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which is what I would tend to use and also wonna.
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And I've seen gonna and gunna as well.
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But, the pronunciation stays the same.
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Wanna. Gonna.
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Not ganna, it's gonna.
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Not wonna, it's wanna.
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Now, the first word that I want to talk about is wanna.
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Now, wanna means want to.
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Want to.
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I wanna go home.
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I want to go home.
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Now this is fine when we use it with
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I, you, we, and they.
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I wanna go home, you wanna go home, we wanna go home,
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and they wanna go home.
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That's fine, the problem arises
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when we want to use he, she, or it.
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Why? Well, because we have to use the third person singular.
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Now, I want to,
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but she wants to.
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So wanna changes to wansta.
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Wansta.
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He wansta go home, she wansta go home,
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it wansta go home.
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So, you must remember that if it's he, she, or it,
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it's not wanna, it's wansta.
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You have to make sure that the verb and the subject agree.
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Now, moving on to gonna.
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Gonna means going to and the biggest mistake that I hear
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is that students forget to use it with the verb to be.
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I am going, you are going to be going.
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I always hear I gonna go, she gonna go, we gonna do.
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That's wrong, it needs to be
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I'm gonna go, she's gonna go, we're gonna do.
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The other error that students tend to make with gonna
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is to do with the pronunciation of
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the third person singular, again.
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I'm gonna go, you're gonna go, we're gonna go,
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they're gonna go is fine.
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But, as she and he both finish with a vowel sound,
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which is voiced, we need to use the zz sound.
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She's gonna go, he's gonna go.
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If you want to sound native, you must do that.
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If you say she's gonna go or he's gonna go,
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I immediately recognise that you're not a native speaker.
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Of course, people will understand you,
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but if you want to speak like a native,
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then that's what you need to do.
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Now with it, on the other hand,
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as t is an unvoiced consonant,
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we use the ss sound after it.
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So she's gonna, he's gonna, it's gonna.
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Now I hope that clarified your doubts
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about the reductions wanna and gonna.
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Remember, not ganna, it's gonna.
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Not wonna, it's wanna.
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Remember, there are various different spellings,
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but I would advise against using them in written English.
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It's something that we tend to use more speaking.
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Now, remember that your subject has to agree with the verb.
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Wanna, I wanna, he or she wansta.
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Remember to use the verb to be with gonna.
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And the pronunciation she's gonna, he's gonna, it's gonna.
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Okay, that's everything.
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I hope to see you very, very soon for another lesson.
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Don't forget to connect with me
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on all of my social media, which is here,
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and I'll see you for another lesson very, very soon.
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Muah!
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