Hi guys, welcome back to English with Max. In this video we're going to look at
how to pronounce contractions. One or two of my viewers asked me to do this and
I've been planning on doing it for quite a while, so here it is. I'm actually going
to break this into two videos, because I think it's a bit long for one video. I'm
also going to focus on contractions that have apostrophes. An apostrophe is that
thing. It's like a comma that's higher up. So I'm talking about contractions like
"I'm" and "don't". I'm not going to look at contractions like coulda, shoulda, wanna
gonna, because I think that's a topic that deserves a separate video. What I've
done is I've chosen 80 contractions with apostrophes, that I believe are the most
common in modern-day English. These aren't all the contractions that exist
in the English language, but these are most of them. I also want to add that
this is a pronunciation video. I'm not going to talk about the meanings of
these words. I think that most people who watch my videos have at least an
intermediate level, and if you have an intermediate level, then you should know
what these words mean.
I've also planned another video about when you should use contractions.
Hopefully that will be on YouTube very soon. As usual, remember that you can
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little bell if you want to receive email notifications. Okay let's get going.
What I'm going to do, is say the full form and then I'll say the contraction twice.
I hope you found that useful. If you did, please hit the thumbs up,
and keep an eye out for my next video in which I will give 40 more contractions.
See you next time!
I'm also going to focus... what's that?
Nehh... start looking at the camera.