English Lesson: Use Reductions to Sound like a Native English Speaker!
As you learn English, you'll want to sound
as much like a native English speaker as you can.
One of the best ways to sound more like a native speaker
Reductions are when we take sentences like,
and we reduce it to, "I wanna eat ice cream."
You'll notice that we take the two words, "want to",
and we kind of squish them together into a new word,
which isn't really a word, "wanna".
but when we say them out loud we say, "I wanna eat ice cream."
I will teach you 10 English reductions
that will help you sound more like a native English speaker.
So the next reduction I wanna teach you takes
the words, "let me", and it kind of squishes them
I know it looks kind of funny,
We take sentences like, "Let me show you how to do that."
"Lemme show you how to do that."
The next reduction I want to teach you takes
and it squishes them into the word, "gonna".
that the reductions themselves aren't real words,
they're just how we say it out loud
So I could say that, "Tonight I am going to eat ice cream.",
and the reduced form would be,
"Tonight I'm gonna eat ice cream."
Notice how I took the words, "going to",
and I squished them into the word, "gonna".
So my son sometimes can buy lunch at school,
but he doesn't always have money.
"Hey, can you give me money to buy lunch today?"
"Hey, can you gimme money to buy lunch today?"
So another reduction is when we take the words, "give me",
and we squish them together to make the word, "gimme".
So I hope you're enjoying the fact
that I'm putting sentences on the screen
and then pretending to squish them,
because I could have just stood in front of a whiteboard
or I coulda just stood in front of a whiteboard.
we take the words, "could have",
is another reduction when we say this in spoken English,
So sometimes there are things that we must do.
There are things that we have to do,
right now I have to make this video quickly
because the sun is coming out.
But if I said this with a reduction I would say,
"I hafta make this video quickly."
We take the words, "have" and "to",
and we squish them again into a new word, "hafta".
Again, remember these new words are not words
They are simply how we say the reduction
when we are speaking English quickly
as a native English speaker would speak.
So sometimes my students won't know the answer
This is probably one of the most common reductions
And it's probably one that you've heard before.
Sometimes they just use the contraction
But rarely do they actually say, "I do not know."
They don't usually say the full and proper sentence.
Usually I hear, "I don't know." or "I dunno."
So sometimes I will have a student come
and they will say they can't do any work
because they don't have anything to write with.
"Don't you have a pen in your locker?"
But usually I'll use a reduction and I'll say,
"Doncha have a pen in your locker?"
It's when we take, "don't you",
and we squish it into, "doncha".
And it sounds a little funny even when I say it right now
but it is a reduction that we use all the time.
"Doncha have a pen in your locker?
"Doncha have a pencil in your pencil case?"
So this next reduction takes the words, "got" and "you",
and it squishes them into either, "gotya", or "gotcha".
I got you some coffee from the coffee shop,
or if I reduce it, I could say,
I gotya some coffee from the coffee shop,
or I gotcha some coffee from the coffee shop.
So sometimes people go and do something fun
and when they come back you might say,
But what you would probably actually say is,
We take the words, "did" and "you",
and we kinda squish them into, "didja".
but it is actually what we say a lot in English.
Well hey, thanks for watching this video
I hope that you were able to learn a lot of them.
I hope me squishing sentences on the screen
I'm Bob the Canadian, and you are learning English with me.
Thank you so much for watching.
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