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How to use ‘wanna’ and ‘gonna’ CORRECTLY | SOUND LIKE A NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKER*


hello everyone welcome back to english
with lucy I have got a seriously
important lesson for you today and this
lesson is going to help you understand
native speakers and sound more native
yourself so what are we going to talk
about today well we’re going to talk
about reductions I’m going to show you
how to correctly use words like wanna
and gonna I use them all the time in
daily conversations it’s not good
English but it is colloquial
conversational English and you will hear
it and you probably will want to learn
to use it because saying I want to and
I’m going to all the time it can be
pretty tiresome quickly before we get
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you’ve probably heard native speakers
use words like Warner and Donna now
because it’s a colloquial word there are
some variations in spelling I have seen
it written wanna which is what I would
tend to use and also Warner and I’ve
seen Ghana and Ghana as well but the
pronunciation stays the same
Oana gonna not gonna it’s gonna not
wanna it’s wanna
now the first word that I want to talk
about is Juana now 1a means want to want
to I want to go home I want to go home
now this is fine when we use it with I
you we and they I want to go home
you want to go home we want to go home
and they want to go home that’s fine
the problem arises when we want to use
he she or it why well because we have to
use the third person singular now I want
to but she wants to so wanna changes to
one stir once to so he wants to go home
she wants to go home it wants to go home
so you must remember that if it’s he she
or it it’s not wanna it’s one step you
have to make sure that the verb and the
subject agree now moving on to gonna
gonna means going to and the biggest
mistake that I hear is that students
forget to use it with the verb to be I
am going you are going to be going so I
always hear I gonna go she gonna go we
gonna do that’s wrong
it needs to be I’m gonna go she’s gonna
go we are gonna do now the other error
that students tend to make with gonna is
to do with the pronunciation of the
third person singular again I’m gonna go
you’re gonna go we’re gonna go they’re
gonna go is fine but as she and he both
finished with a vowel sound which is
voiced we need to use that this is sound
she’s gonna go he’s gonna go if you want
to sound
you must do that if you say she’s gonna
go or he’s gonna go I immediately
recognized that you’re not a native
speaker of course people will understand
you but if you want to speak like a
native and that’s what you need to do
now with it on the other hand as is an
unvoiced consonant we use the sound
after it so she’s gonna he’s gonna it
scanner now I hope that clarified your
doubts about the reductions wanna and
gonna remember not gonna it’s gonna not
wanna it’s wanna remember there are
various different spellings but I would
advise against using them in written
English it’s something that we tend to
use more speaking now remember that your
subject has to agree with the verb wanna
I wanna he or she once tur then remember
to use the verb to be with gonna and the
pronunciation she’s gonna he’s gonna
it’s gonna okay that’s everything I hope
to see you very very soon for another
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