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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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