Are you confident listening to native speakers? Does it seem that we’re speaking too fast, or a lot
differently than you learned in school? For a lot of people, the
solution is simple: learn to hear the colloquial contractions “wanna,
gotta, and gonna.”
These are three of the most common English colloquial contractions, or sound morphs. Schools rarely teach these, but they are very important for fluent English communication, and we use these A LOT!
While a lot of grammarticians tend to think that these are incorrect, the truth is that it is perfectly okay to use these in any and all spoken English situations. It’s even common for native speakers to use them in informal writing (to friends, online chat, text messages, etc).The only area where you should definitely not use them, is in formal written English (reports, research papers, formal e-mails, etc), in which case, you need to spell them out in long form.
If you don’t know how to listen and understand how native speakers use these, there is a lot that you won’t understand. Learning to use them correctly in your speaking and writing will make your communication much more effective.
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Are
you confident listening to native speakers? Does it seem that we’re speaking
too fast, or a lot differently than you learned in school? For a lot of
people, the solution is simple: learn to hear the colloquial contractions
“wanna, gotta, and gonna.”
These
are three of the most common English colloquial contractions, or sound morphs.
Schools rarely teach these, but they are very important for fluent
English communication, and we use these A LOT!
While a lot of grammarticians tend
to think that these are incorrect, the truth is that it is perfectly okay
to use these in any and all spoken English situations. It’s even
common for native speakers to use them in informal writing (to friends,
online chat, text messages, etc).
The only area where you should
definitely not use them, is in formal written English (reports,
research papers, formal e-mails, etc), in which case, you need to spell them
out in long form.
If you don’t know how to listen and
understand how native speakers use these, there is a lot that you won’t
understand. Learning to use them correctly in your speaking and writing will
make your communication much more effective.
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