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how we do it in wisconsin dive into delicious with all your fish fry favorites at culver's from wisconsin with love welcome to delicious Welcome to the A to Z English podcast.
My name is Jack and I'm doing another solo episode today.
As we step into the vocabulary spotlight, we are going to talk about something called reductions.
And this is a kind of odd, I don't, I didn't know which category to put this episode in.
I think vocabulary spotlight is probably the best.
And when we're talking about reductions, reductions are words that we kind of smash together, but they're not formal words, okay?
And the ones that everybody knows are wanna, gonna, gotta.
Wanna, gonna, and gotta.
Wanna, want to. Gonna, going to.
Gotta. Got to. Native speakers rarely pronounce going to as going to.
We mostly pronounce it when we're talking as gonna.
Tomorrow, I'm going to get up at 8 o 'clock.
We rarely say want to.
I want to go to an amusement park.
No, we say, you know what?
I want to go to an amusement park, Juana, but if you look in the dictionary for Juana, gonna, and gotta, you're never going to find it because they're not words.
It's not like, um, a compound word such as book, store, bookstore.
Okay. That's a, that's a formal word.
You can find that in a, in a dictionary with a definition bookstore, a store that sells books.
But if you look in WANNA, W -A -N -N -A, you'll never find it because it's not in the dictionary, okay?
It's not a word, it's a reduction.
That's what we call them, reductions.
So we're not gonna talk about, oh, I used gonna there.
We're not gonna talk about WANA gonna gotta today.
I wanna talk about another one that I think can be, is very common that a lot of teachers overlook but students are kind of left confused because they don't know what the teacher said, right?
So this one is, did you?
Did you? So this is the title of today's episode, did you?
Did you have a good weekend?
Did you have a good weekend?
Did you have lunch?
Did you have lunch?
Did you go to the mall?
Did you go to the mall?
Okay. And what is that?
Didja is a reduction of did in you.
Again, it's not a compound word.
It's not a word. It's just a reduction.
It's just an easier way to pronounce it.
And it tends to be, it's informal.
You cannot write this in an email.
You cannot write wanna, gonna, gotta, didja in an email.
You have to write it did you, want to, going to, got to.
However, when you're talking, you're going to hear it a lot.
So I think students should understand that there's and there's kind of some minor rules around this.
For example, when D and Y are next to each other, when a word ends with a D sound and the next word starts with a Y sound, native speakers, native English speakers, tend to insert a J sound there.
did you did you did you did you okay so you could a reduction could be did you that's fine that works did you have a good weekend did you uh did you is a much shorter and more common reduction of did you did you have a good weekend to everyone who loves the taste of tradition come enjoy a classic wisconsin fish
fry at culver's i'm genesis from culver's in claremont Florida, and here family fish fry is a part of who we are.
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It's perfectly seasoned and my personal favorite.
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with all your fish fry favorites at culver's from wisconsin with love welcome to delicious Did you have lunch?
Did you go to the mall?
Okay. Now, if you, so when you're talking, feel free to, you know, practice this a little bit, throw it in there.
You know, when you hear, did you, you know, now it means did you, did you, did you, did you.
Now, sometimes native English speakers will get really crazy with their reduction of did you, and they'll even make it shorter.
And I'll give you an example here.
I'll use the same examples.
Did you have a good weekend?
Did you have a good weekend?
Okay, did you have a good weekend?
Did you have a good weekend?
So we reduced did you all the way down to Juh.
Juh. Juh. Did you? Did you?
Juh. Juh. Juh, have a good weekend.
Hey, Bob, did you have lunch?
Hey, Bob, did you have lunch?
Okay. Mary, did you go to the mall this weekend?
Did you go to the mall this weekend?
Okay, so you can notice how we can reduce it even more.
So what I want you to do, this is your homework assignment here for my A to Z listeners out there.
The next time you have a speaking opportunity and you find yourself using did you, try it out.
Throw in a did you.
Did you, did you, or ja?
And see how the other person that you're talking to reacts to that.
I see if they notice it because again, these reductions are so common that I think people won't even notice, but your, your, your, your, your English will sound so much more natural and authentic and like a native speaker.
So this is just, I'm giving you guys a little tiny clue, a hint into sounding more like a native speaker.
So next time, don't say did you.
say, did ya? Okay. But remember, this is only when speaking, when writing, you must write it out formally, did you?
Okay. So this is not acceptable in emails, um, maybe in text messages, it's okay.
But, um, in emails or any sort of formal business setting, you have to write, did you, but when you're talking, feel free to throw in a did ya.
And, uh, that's the title for today's episode, I think, is didja.
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