Hello, welcome back to go natural English. I'm so happy you are here many of our English learners ask us
Why is it so difficult to understand native English speakers?
And why is it easier to understand my native English speaker teacher here at go natural English?
Well, we have the answer for you. And today I am so excited not only for this answer for you
But because the person teaching it is our newest go natural English team teacher
Marcos who's from the United States who's a native speaker? And he's an amazing teacher so
Let's join Marcos for the lesson
Hey guys, how's it going Marcos here? Welcome to go natural
Do you have a hard time understanding native speakers? I get that a lot from English learners
now
It's not just because we talk quickly
Although that can be the case sometimes
The product it's probably because you're not familiar with reductions
Now reductions are an easier way for us to communicate
simply put reductions are
English words or phrases
That are reduced
We drop certain words and letters in order for us to get our message across a lot quicker easier
While sounding a lot more natural as well
So if you're not familiar with reductions, let's take a look at the most common reductions in English
Alright, so before we start let me just explain
Reductions is an informal way of speaking. Ok. It's not standard English
It's not the kind of English that you're going to hear in your classroom. Ok
You probably understand your English teacher you understand your classmates, but when you watch a movie or TV series
You feel completely lost. It's like you're not it's like another language. You don't understand a word and that's because
Reductions is a part of real English the kind of English that spoken on the streets at the office among friends and loved ones
It's not your textbook English. Ok, so just keep that in mind
Let's take a look at the first one. The first reduction is what you're doing
What you're doing?
What you're doing now?
What you're doing, it may seem like it's a whole another word that you've never seen before
But actually it's a compact version of what you learned in your classroom as what are you doing?
instead of us saying that
Pronouncing that separately each word separately. We just put it all together. We reduce it and we say what you're doing
notice that I drop the verb to be are
And I go directly to the pronoun you
In that combination with T and Y has a chilling sound now say what you're doing the next one
you probably already familiar with because
some teacher some schools teach this it's the future of gonna to be gonna
gonna is the reduced form of to be going to instead of us saying going to
We can't account. We combine two and going together. We say gonna okay, so
Here's an example
We're gonna go grab a bite. I'm gonna go grab a bite
Hey, we're gonna go grab a bite now
The next one is still the future its imma it's a more compacted version of gonna
Alright, so instead of saying going to or gonna we say I'm on
and
This can only be used in the first person
Okay, you can't use it for the second for the third or for any other person? It's just the first person
So I'll give you an example
I'm a step out for a bit or I'm gonna go grab something to eat at the same example that we use in the previous
production
So you see how we're always looking for shortcuts, right?
We're always looking for the easiest way for us to speak faster a lot quicker
I'm on right. Let's take a look at the next one
the next one is
Where yeah, where are you from where you from? Where you from?
Okay
There's two ways you can say this reduction you hit you have where you're from or where are you from where you're from?
Is a lot more
informal than where you from
Notice that I didn't say, where are you from?
We drop the verb to be we go directly to the pronoun you and we say where you're from
Okay
The next one is kinda
kinda
kinda is the reduced form of kind of
So we drop the preposition. We replace it with the letter A and we give it a schwa sound
There's a video about the schwa sound. Okay, so if you want to take a look at that
so instead of saying kind of
We replace it with the letter A and we give it a schwa sound kinda. Here's an example
actually, I kind of like her actually kind of liked her the
Next one is sorta
sorta
Now sorta is the reduced form of sort of
Again, whenever you have the preposition of or two
Usually we drop that preposition and we replace it with the a and we give it a schwa sound
Okay, like in this case
sorting
Example, there's gotta be some sort of explanation
like
There's gotta be some sort of explanation and
The next one you're probably already familiar with is sup
Sup is a compacted version of what's up?
What's up is an informal greeting that you probably don't want to use
With your boss. Okay, maybe you're teaching but just keep it among the friends circle. Okay, tough guy thumbs in
The next one is gotta
gotta
Gotta is a reduced form of God, too
So just the parentheses here if you really want to go natural
Get used to using the verb God instead of half because God is another way of saying half
Alright, I'll give you an example
I have to go I'm still saying I have to go we say I gotta go. Alright
So god
It's like a substitute for half just that it's more informal than half. Okay, I'll give another example
Instead of saying I have a brother I say I got a brother. All right
So I'll keep an example here
It's getting late. I gotta go. We got agree. It's getting late
Okay, it's getting late. I gotta go
Notice that and I dropped a preposition - all right
And I'll replace it with the a and I gave it a schwa sound
God
Okay, I gotta go
the next one is wanna
Wanna I just probably already familiar with this too is very common, right?
but again, we drop the preposition to
We give it the sound that's the schwa sound
wanna all right example would be
Want to go for a spin?
Now
Want to go for a spin - go for a spin is an expression that we have that means just to go for a ride
Okay
The next one is China China
now the complete form the correct way is trying to we've dropped the tube and
Replace it with the schwa. Stop the letter Amy. Say China
So it sounds like I'm trying to understand what you're saying. Guess what I'm trying to say is
That's example, I'm trying to understand what you're saying you see how if you're not familiar with reductions
It sounds like another word and if you just used to hearing classroom English
It can be really difficult for you to pick up these things. All right
Again, it's informal English. It's not like your standard, correct
Textbook textbook English. However
It's the kind of English that's spoken on a day-to-day basis. So I suggest that you get familiar with them. Okay?
And the next one the lemme
Lemme, lemme is the reduced form of let me okay. Here's an example
Gosh, let me tell you something
Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. Okay? And the last one is gimme Oh
Mom
Gimme is the reduced form of give me
Here's an example, give me your hand while we cross the street give me your hand while we cross the street
so you see how I drop the
Pronunciation of the letter V and I just replace it with em gimme
Remind you once again
This is informal English. But if you want to understand data speakers
Then you really have to use them. Okay, not just
Get familiar, but I suggest that you also start using them because if you use these reductions
then it would become a lot easier for you to
Recognize them when you come across a native speaker when you watch a movie or TV series, okay
That's it for today. See?
You soon. Bye bye. Thank you to Marcus. That was
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