hi and welcome back to love English I'm Leila and in today's lesson we're going
to be covering two areas of your English language learning we're gonna help
improve your speaking skills and just to top it off we are going to help you
understand native speakers when they speak fast that's right
speaking and listening practice in today's lesson so does this sound like
you I can't speak fast I want to sound more natural when I
speak in English I can't understand native speakers when they speak too
quickly I want to sound like a native speaker so if this sounds like you
you're gonna wanna listen gonna wanna listen to this lesson if you want to
sound more natural and native maybe you don't know how but remember you've got
to watch it till the end to let me explain all of these twelve reductions
in English and don't worry Sabrah is gonna be here too to help you
understand these reductions with her perfectly natural and native
pronunciation
now these reductions that I am teaching you today are of course used in spoken
colloquial informal English and many of them you can even use in written English
but in formal written English text messages social media posts informal
emails but not academic writing essays or of course business writing and
correspondence letters emails they are informal and need to be used in the
correct situation right let me get started number one gonna gonna or even
gonna gonna so you can choose one or two options they're gonna gonna now here
we've got the future form in fact gonna is going to going to now ordinarily to
sounds exactly like that however when we weaken this word this preposition we use
the schwa so too becomes ta but then we weaken it even more and we remove the
T in this case we go from going to to gonna gonna I'm gonna go out tonight I'm
gonna have dinner with friends be careful though you do need to make sure
you get the grammatical structure correct going to plus infinitive verb
very often I hear people make the mistake by saying I'm gonna to go I'm
gonna to go if you've used gonna you've already added the two it's hidden there
in the schwa sound so practice with me I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna go I'm
gonna go I'm gonna go out tonight I'm gonna go out tonight right
number two wanna wanna now wanna is? any ideas that's right want to in
exactly the same way as we reduced to two uh in gonna we would do the same
with wanna I wanna go out tonight I wanna go out tonight
again remember don't add that extra preposition I
wanna to go I wanted to go I wanna go now I wanna you wanna they wanna we
wanna but what about he she and it in fact we can also use a similar reduction
in this case it's wantsta wantsta so you've got the wants ta be careful there
sounds like a snake wants ta so she wants to go out he wants to go out
it wants to rain referring to of course the weather I think it wansta rain now
pay attention with these last three that I've mentioned wanna and gonna are
commonly written in informal English you'll see them in text messages maybe
even informal emails but as with all these reductions you do not want to use
them in formal writing academic essays business reports formal emails and
letters this is informal English stupid
what a. gorgeous day, I really wanna go to the beach!
It's not fair if it wasn't for this stupid
coronavirus I'd be at the beach by now so make sure that you are only using
them in informal situations so do you wanna practice these reductions
perhaps you do sabrah is going to tell you how hello everyone as you know
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number three have to have to listen very carefully there it is of course have to
so here we have the word plus ta and reducing that word again just like gonna
wanna we've got hafta hafta however you can still hear the T sound but you'll
notice that the V the verb have has become half half so it's a F sound hafta
hafta I really have to call my mom I haven't called her in days now I have to
we have to they have to you have to but again what about third person she he and
it we do in fact have a very similar reduction for this has to hasta now
listen carefully the has has where you've got a sound has been replaced
more commonly with a s and which can be tricky so even for native speakers we
would say hasta hasta rather than has to has to so either is perfectly acceptable
don't worry too much about it just remember she hasta call her mother I
hafta call my mother what do you have to do comment below and let me know I
have got to I have got to or even I must so here we're looking at a reduction
that essentially is an obligation something you need to do I've gotta I've
gotta she's gotta they've gotta listen very carefully
can you hear a T sound probably not what sound can you hear
I've gotta I've gotta so that we've replaced that with a kind of lazy D
sound so rather than gotta gotta gotta I've
got to go I've got to go she's got to go it is that simple
practice with me now not got to but gotta gotta
now the next one number five ought to ought to two basically a modal verb that means
should it's a modal verb of obligation or suggestion but it is a little bit
more formal however when in informal spoken English we can reduce ought to to
oughta oughta now depending on your nationality British oughta but probably
Australian American you're more likely to remove that t sound and use a D
oughta oughta I really ought to go to the shops I really ought to phone my mother
oughta I would say oughta but American Australian might use oughta again
reducing that t down to a D sound duh-duh-duh oughta or oughta you choose
now these next two are ending in me, word plus me we reduce them to squeeze the
words together and what you will produce is something like this number six
let me explain lemme explain lemme in fact we've completely omitted removed
the T sound and we go straight from le me lemme lemme let me explain it's no
wonder why if you hear a native person speak like this you might not understand
exactly what they're saying there is no recognition you can't see or hear that
word let meaning to allow allow me to explain lemme explain so
pretty confusing but pay attention to the pronunciation practice one more time
with me lemme let me help you lemme help you lemme explain
lemme good job hey how are you doing yeah I'm good yeah I'm really sorry
Leila but I can't talk right now I'm so busy getting that video finished you
know the one I told you about yeah I have to finish it tonight yeah let me
just finish it and then I'll give you a call right number seven be careful
because this could sound rude now you don't normally say give me can
you give me the pen you don't want to say something that's quite direct and
almost rude so be careful again how you use it
gimme give me a minute give me a minute remember adding could you would you give
me a minute softens the language it sounds less of a
direction of an instruction so you won't come across as too rude could you just
give me a minute could you just give me a minute
give me gimme simple number 8 do you know what the time is?
do you know what the time is don't know I don't know there you can see but we
have omitted the T sound and of course you can even text this just like dunno
and wanna writing dunno is perfectly acceptable in informal writing not in
essays reports business letters that kind of thing
someone might message you do you know what time we're meeting tonight no I
dunno of course you can also say she dunno although technically not
grammatically correct of course it should be doesn't know but you'll hear a
lot of native English speakers break that rule and use dunno she dunno
he dunno in this way not the best grammar but again will help you
understand native speakers just little bit better right number nine this
next example is again like wanna gonna and dunno quite frequently used in text
messages kinda kinda instead of kind of we've replaced of with an a sound the
schwa but when written it's an a kinda I
kinda know what I want for dinner I'm not really sure so what did you think
did you like the movie yeah kinda and of course kinda is also referring to type
of it's a kinda plant it's the kinda fruit what's the papaya
it's a kind of fruit what's tagliatelle it's a kinda pasta so you're
actually describing the group that it belongs to kinda right number 10 11
and 12 a word plus have and would you guess it what happens to have that's
right we reduce it to the schwa sound just like ta just like of it becomes a
weak sound so could have or could've if you contract it will become reduced to
Coulda coulda I coulda helped you if I'd known I coulda helped you if I'd
known number 11 woulda woulda not would have or even
would've would've but woulda I would have called if you told me you were
lonely I woulda called you if I'd know and finally shoulda shoulda not
should have or should've but shoulda shoulda I shoulda asked you your advice I
should have asked you your advice Leila I love your new pink shirt it looks
gorgeous oh my goodness I shoulda got it when it was in the sale you were
right I'm an idiot so there we go 12 simple reductions to
help you improve your pronunciation and your listening skills try practicing
them below put them into some sentences I'll check the grammar and then of
course practice saying them try practicing in
front of a mirror making sure you're pronouncing the correct sounds reducing
the T to a D reducing off to have to basically using that schwa and of course
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hope you have improved your pronunciation and listening skills today
see you soon bye