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

can be pretty tiresome.

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So, you've probably heard native speakers use words like

wanna and gonna.

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 wonna.

And I've seen gonna and gunna as well.

But, the pronunciation stays the same.

Wanna. Gonna.

Not ganna, it's gonna.

Not wonna, it's wanna.

Now, the first word that I want to talk about is wanna.

Now, wanna means want to.

Want to.

I wanna go home.

I want to go home.

Now this is fine when we use it with

I, you, we, and they.

I wanna go home, you wanna go home, we wanna go home,

and they wanna 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 wansta.

Wansta.

He wansta go home, she wansta go home,

it wansta go home.

So, you must remember that if it's he, she, or it,

it's not wanna, it's wansta.

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.

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're gonna do.

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 finish with a vowel sound,

which is voiced, we need to use the zz sound.

She's gonna go, he's gonna go.

If you want to sound native, you must do that.

If you say she's gonna go or he's gonna go,

I immediately recognise that you're not a native speaker.

Of course, people will understand you,

but if you want to speak like a native,

then that's what you need to do.

Now with it, on the other hand,

as t is an unvoiced consonant,

we use the ss sound after it.

So she's gonna, he's gonna, it's gonna.

Now I hope that clarified your doubts

about the reductions wanna and gonna.

Remember, not ganna, it's gonna.

Not wonna, 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 wansta.

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.

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