Hello everyone and welcome back to the English with Neil Learn English podcast.
How's everyone doing today?
I'm doing pretty good today.
I'm excited.
This is going to be a fun episode today.
Today I'm going to teach you some common Informal English contractions.
Now, a contraction is basically when you take two or three words and you combine them so that they sound like one word.
You can also say a contraction is like having a lazy tongue okay, so i'm going to teach you these today.
It's going to be very fun.
Two things, though.
Number one just know that these contractions are only used for spoken english.
We never use these contractions for written English.
If you use these in a text message or an email or in a letter, it's it's kind of childish like some people.
Some people use it like teenagers, but really when you read it, when you read these in written form, it just makes you sound kind of childish.
But they're completely fine for spoken English.
I just wanted to make that note.
These are completely fine for spoken English.
I use these on a daily basis a lot.
And this is just how we speak in America.
We usually speak in contractions.
We don't pronunciate and enunciate every single word.
Sometimes we combine words just because it's more convenient.
So let's get started with these informal contractions.
Some of these you may know, some of these they may be new to you.
But let's get started.
The first one is gimme.
Gimme.
Hey, can you gimme that hammer over there?
Hey, can you give me a hand?
Oh, can you give me some time?
So gimme is a contraction of give me, give me.
Hey, can you give me that pen over there?
Can you give me, can you give me that pen?
See, it's pretty much the same thing, but it's just more smooth.
It's more convenient to say gimme versus give me.
All right, this next one you may be familiar with.
This is a common contraction, gonna, gonna.
I'm going to tell you later.
I'm going to go to the store tomorrow.
I'm going to meet some friends tomorrow.
Gonna means going to.
I'm going to.
I'm gonna.
Right?
I'm going to buy a new TV.
I'm going to buy a new TV.
That's a common one.
This next one is pretty common too.
Gotta.
Gotta means have to.
Oh, I'm a little busy.
I gotta go.
I gotta go now.
I gotta.
I have to.
I gotta wash the car.
I gotta walk the dog.
I gotta do this.
I gotta do that.
I gotta.
Gotta means I have to.
Alright, this next one, I think I use this a lot, kinda, kinda.
If you're a single guy, you might say, oh, you know, that girl's kinda cute.
Or if you're a woman, you might say, hey, that guy is kind of handsome.
Kinda means kind of.
Right.
She's kind of cute.
He's kind of handsome.
Kind of meaning a little bit.
Kinda.
All right, this next one.
This is really, this is like real, real English.
Lemmy.
Lemmy.
This is like real native English.
Hey, let me know.
I know you're busy right now, so just let me know, let me means, let me, let me means, inform me, tell me, let me know okay, i'll let i'll let you know tomorrow.
Okay, let me know, let me know.
That's, that's real english, right there?
Okay, this next one.
You probably know this one.
This is wanna.
Wanna.
I'm kinda hungry.
I wanna eat something.
I'm kinda thirsty.
I wanna drink.
I wanna go home now.
Wanna.
Want to.
I want to.
I want to do something.
I wanna do it.
I wanna read a book.
I wanna relax.
I wanna lay down.
I wanna.
I want to.
All right?
And this last one that I'm going to teach you, it sounds weird.
It looks weird on paper.
It's whatcha.
Whatcha.
And it sounds weird even as I say it because we usually don't say it just by itself.
So let me give you a sentence.
It's like, Hey, what you going to do tomorrow?
Oh, what you going to do later?
Whatcha?
What are you?
What you going to do?
What are you going to do?
What you going to do?
This is really, I mean, all of these, we use these a lot.
So give these a try.
Listen to this episode again.
Shadow my English and just use these when you have the opportunity.
This is not slang.
These contractions are not to be confused with slang.
Slang is like, hey, what's up?
That's slang.
These are just contractions.
We're just taking two or three words and we're shortening them to make one word, contraction.
This is how we really...
I mean, this is how native English English speakers speak.
And you won't learn this in a book.
You know, when you listen to when you watch movies in English and you listen to songs.
This is how people sound.
So learn these and use them when you have an opportunity.
But again, don't use them in written speech, because it looks just a little immature when you use them in written speech.
But perfectly okay when you use them in spoken speech.
All right, everyone.
That is it for today's episode.
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Peace.
