How Native Speakers Use Gonna, Wanna & Gotta

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Welcome to another episode of RealLife TV. I'm Justin and today I'm going to teach you

how native speakers use "gonna," "wanna," and "gotta." So, stay tuned!

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Ok, to start with, we have "going to" in the simple future. So, going to, the simple construction

is "going to + verb." So, "I'm going to go to the movies," "I'm going to play soccer."

This becomes gonna. "I'm gonna play soccer," "I'm gonna go to the movies."

This is very common, especially in American English, but in other forms of English as well.

So, a couple of mistakes people make with this. The first one is they don't use the

to be, so they say "I gonna." But it should be "I'm gonna."

Second mistake is they often say "I'm gonna to," but it should be "I'm going to" or "I'm

gonna." "I'm gonna play soccer."

And the third mistake is they often confuse the present continuous with gonna. But the

present continuous, even when used in the future, we do not use gonna. So, it's only

with the "I'm going to" + verb, in the future. "I'm gonna play soccer," "I'm gonna study

English."

So, now, "wanna." Wanna is want to plus a verb. It can also be a noun as well, but that's

a little bit different. So, for example, "I wanna play soccer." "I wanna have fun." "I

wanna eat dinner."

And then, with a noun, this is actually "I want a." "I want a new car." "I want a book

about this subject."

A common tendency with this is sometimes we take off the subject in the beginning.

So, instead of saying "Do you wanna hangout?" I might say "Wanna hangout?" or "You wanna

hangout?"

And the final one is "gotta." Gotta comes from "I've got to." "I've got to leave now,"

which is like "I have to leave now." But we take off the "I've" and make it "I," as kind

of a colloquial contraction. So, "I gotta go now" is a common way. "I gotta read that

book."

More correct would be "I've got to" and the correct pronunciation would be "I've gotta"

with this. "I've gotta read that book."

And then a lot of times people use this with a noun. So, "I got a new car," for example,

or another example of this would be "I got a meeting later on today." "I got a meeting

later on today."

So, those are the examples of gonna ("I'm gonna play soccer"), wanna ("I wanna study

for that test"), and gotta ("I gotta go" or "I've gotta go").

So, just on the side notes, these are not all informal contractions. This is connected

speech, the way natives really speak. The way we shrink our words, the way we connect

them, the way we link them.

So, we do this in informal situations and formal situations. So, just to give you an

example of this, I'm going to provide you with an interview with Steve Jobs on CNBC,

an financial program from a few years ago, and we're just going to show you some examples

of wanna and gonna, just to show you how we use it in formal situations and even a person

like Steve Jobs and even the interviewers do.

So...

"And it will completely change your expectations are GONNA be for what you can carry on your

pocket." "I think everything is GONNA be just fine."

"Yeah, I don't think the stock actions scandal is GONNA impact this at the end of the day

earnings are GONNA be there." "And if he again puts out the better mousetrap,

people are GONNA follow him."

So, there are some nice examples for you with some real people using it on TV in American

culture.

So, that does it for today's lesson. Remember that these are important. Connected speech

with "gonna," "gotta," "wanna." Make sure you know how to understand them and then play

around with it, see if you can use it. And it's really gonna help your English flow a

lot.

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