Talk like a native speaker - GONNA, HAVETA, WANNA

Hello there, my name is Ronnie and today I'm going to teach you, by request, how to listen

to very, very fast English, native English speakers when they put two little tiny words

together to make bigger words.

This will help you for your listening a lot.

A lot of people say, "Ronnie, how can I improve my listening?"

This is one way.

The other thing that this will improve is your fluency.

So if you find that you're not being able to speak very fast in English, if you can

master these, you will be able to increase your listening and your fluency all in one

easy step.

So the very, very first thing that we're going to look at is the word, "gonna."

Can you repeat that?

"Gonna."

Then we have, "wanna."

"Wanna."

Next we have, "gotta."

And then, "have to."

Maybe you have heard, "gonna," before.

Does anyone know what it means?

"Gonna."

"Gonna" means, "going to."

So when we speak naturally in English, we say, "I'm gonna go to the movies," or, "I'm

gonna go home."

We would never say, "I'm going to go home."

Say, "I'm gonna go home."

"Gonna go."

Okay?

So, "gonna go" is "going to" plus "go."

You don't have to use "go," you can use any other verb.

The next one, "wanna."

If this is "going to," what do you think "wanna" means?

It means, "want to."

So I can say, "I wanna eat pizza," or, "I wanna see a movie," or, "I wanna go home."

"I wanna go home."

You can say it like that.

So instead of saying, "want to," "I want to go to the movies," we say, "I wanna go to

the movies."

"I wanna see a movie."

Okay?

The next one is, "gotta."

"Gotta" is very, very strange, the way the grammar works out in this one.

This is actually, "I have."

Now, this is grammatically incorrect.

We should say, "I have got to."

We say, "gotta."

So we say, "I gotta go."

I gotta have.

I gotta learn.

I gotta learn English on engVid.

Okay?

And the last one is, "have to."

We say, "have to."

So instead of saying, "I have to go," you can say, "I have to go."

All right?

So what you have to remember -- oh, I said, "have to."

See how natural that was?

-- is, in English, we change the word plus "to," and we just change it to an "a."

Sometimes we put "ta," sometimes we put "na."

There's no rule for using "ta" or "na."

These are just one, two, three, four, five words that you can remember -- "gonna," "wanna,"

"gotta," "have to" -- that have "to" at the end.

Here's some more -- are you excited?

These are modals in English.

We have "coulda," "shoulda," "woulda," and "musta" -- "musta."

So these are actually how we say things like this -- wow, that's a far stretch.

So instead of saying, "could have" -- oh, I could have gone to the movies -- we say,

"I coulda gone."

Instead of saying, "should have," we say, "shoulda."

This is -- we use for when we've made a mistake -- oh, man, I shoulda gone to the movies.

Why didn't I go?

This one -- can you guess what this one is?

We say "woulda," but it should actually be "would have."

And the last one is the modal "must" -- "must have."

So we say, "would have" -- we say, "woulda," and "must have" -- we say, "must have" -- "musta."

So when we use the modals, we never say "have" -- we say "a."

Very strange.

And the last two are kind of fun.

I see this word a lot in TV commercials when they're advertising something that has a lot

of something.

So they'll say stuff like, "lotsa tomatoes," or, "lotsa money," or, "lotsa pizza."

"Lotsa" is actually "a lot of."

We totally take out the "a," and we change "lot of" to "lotsa."

I don't know why we put the "s."

I have no idea.

And this one -- does anyone know what this one might be?

This one is "sort of."

"Sort of" means, like, a little bit, or another thing that we would say is "kind of" or "kinda."

Or the same thing -- so you can say, "I sorta wanna go to the movies," or, "I kinda wanna

go to the movies."

It's not 100%.

It's like you're thinking about it.

So "sorta" and "kinda" basically have the same meaning.

They mean "sort of" or "kind of."

And these basically just mean "a little bit."

Well, now that you've heard this lesson, go to the website, www.engvid.com, because I

gotta go.

Bye-bye.