American English Pronunciation Podcast (Pronuncian.com), #13: The American English Pronunciation of informal contractions

#13: The American English Pronunciation of informal contractions |||發音|||縮寫 Der|||||| the|American English||Pronunciation||| ||||||短縮形 #13: The American English Pronunciation of informal contractions #13: Pronunciación en inglés americano de las contracciones informales

Learn how to understand and use these commonly spoken English contractions. ||||||||||shortened forms ||||y|||||| |||||||pogosto|govorjenih||skrajšave Lernen Sie, diese häufig verwendeten englischen Kontraktionen zu verstehen und zu verwenden.

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Hi everyone, it's me Mandy, and this is the American English Pronunciation podcast number 13. |||||||||||Aussprache|| ||||||||||||audio program| |||||||||||izgovorjava|| Hallo zusammen, ich bin Mandy und das ist der American English Pronunciation Podcast Nummer 13. Today we have a fun podcast about informal contractions. |||||||casual language| Heute haben wir einen unterhaltsamen Podcast über informelle Kontraktionen. Last week I taught about common contractions, words like don't and can't. Letzte Woche habe ich über häufige Kontraktionen unterrichtet, Wörter wie don't und can't. Remember, contractions are important to use to help the rhythm of spoken English. ||||||||||口語的|| Denken Sie daran, Kontraktionen sind wichtig, um den Rhythmus des gesprochenen Englisch zu verbessern. Informal contractions are optional contractions, which are said very frequently, but rarely used in writing. 非正式|||可選的||||||||||| |||オプション||||||||||| ||||contrações informais|||||||raramente usadas||| Informelle Kontraktionen sind optionale Kontraktionen, die sehr häufig gesagt werden, aber selten in der Schriftsprache verwendet werden. Examples are words like wanna, gimme, and lemme. |||||給我|| ||||want to|give me||let me |||||くれ||レッミ |||||me dá||deixa eu Beispiele sind Wörter wie wanna, gimme und lemme. You're likely already familiar with these common informal contractions if you live in the United States. |provavelmente|||||||||||||| Wenn Sie in den Vereinigten Staaten leben, sind Ihnen diese üblichen informellen Kontraktionen wahrscheinlich bereits vertraut. As a listener of English, you really need to be able to understand people who use informal contractions, and nearly every native speaker does. |||||||||||||||||||ほとんど|||| ||ouvinte||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||neformalno|kontrakcije||skoraj|||| Als Zuhörer des Englischen musst du wirklich in der Lage sein, Leute zu verstehen, die informelle Verkürzungen verwenden, und fast jeder Muttersprachler tut das.

It is your choice to decide to use them in your own speech or not. |||||||使用||||||| ||||||||||||discurso|| Es ist deine Entscheidung, ob du sie in deiner eigenen Sprache verwendest oder nicht.

Let's start with the most well known. Lass uns mit den bekanntesten beginnen. 1.

Lemme: if you see this spelled, which you usually won't, it is spelled l-e-m-m-e, and is actually the words let + me. 讓我|||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||escrito||||||||||||||||||| Lemme: Wenn du das so geschrieben siehst, was du normalerweise nicht tun wirst, wird es als l-e-m-m-e geschrieben und sind tatsächlich die Wörter let + me. Lemme, as in, "Lemme help you with that. " |||||||那個 Lemme, wie in, "Lass mich dir dabei helfen." 2. 2.

Wanna: w-a-n-n-a. Wanna is the combination of the words want and to. |||組合|||||| querer ver||||||||| Wanna ist die Kombination der Wörter wollen und zu. "I wanna go to the movies. 我||||| "Ich will ins Kino gehen. Do you wanna come along? " Willst du mitkommen?" 3.

Dunno: d-u-n-n-o. Dunno is the combination of the words don't and know. não sei||||||||| "I dunno how to speak Japanese. " |不知道|||| Ich weiß nicht, wie man Japanisch spricht. 4. 4.

Lotta and lotsa. Lotta(1)||很多 Viel und jede Menge. Lotta and lotsa are combinations of the words lot of or lots of. Lotta|||||||||||| "There are lotsa grammar rules for English. " ||muitas|||| "Es gibt viele Grammatikregeln für Englisch. " 5. 5.

Kinda k-i-n-d-a is a combination of kind and of. meio que|||||||||||| Kinda k-i-n-d-a ist eine Kombination aus freundlich und von. Kind of means sort of, or a little. So etwas bedeutet sozusagen oder ein bisschen.

6. 6.

Gonna g-o-n-n-a is a combination of going and to. ||||||||||ir|| Gonna g-o-n-n-a ist eine Kombination von going und to. "I'm gonna go to the movies tonight. " |vou ver||||| 7.

Gotta g-o-t-t-a is a combination of the words got and to, and the double t is said as a d sound, listen again, gotta. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||tenho que

Then there are the less known combinations, often of more than two words.

One of them is wheredja. ||||onde está

Wheredja is the combination of the words where + did + you. Wheredja. "I love your shoes. Wheredja get them? " Wo hast du die her? " Whadja: Whadja is the combination of the words what + did + you. Whadja: Whadja ist die Kombination der Wörter was + hast + du.

"Whadja have for dinner last night. " o que você||||| "Was hast du gestern Abend zum Abendessen gehabt? " Howdja: Howdja is the combination of how + did + you. |como você|||||||

"Howdja like the movie? I thought it was great.

Like I said before, it is truly your choice to use or not use these words. ||||||genuinely||||||||| ||||||realmente|||||||||

They do have benefits of sounding more casual as well as helping with the overall rhythm of English, which I talked about a little bit last week. |||||soando||||||||||||||||||||| You will hear these words everywhere from informal conversations in a coffee shop or anywhere else to on TV and in movies, and even now being used by the broadcasters for American news.

I'm going to play a few lines from a movie I like to use for teaching called "The Incredibles. " It's a funny Disney-Pixar computer generated cartoon. ||||Pixar|||desenho animado I've found examples of nearly everything I teach demonstrated in this movie. I'm going to tell you what the characters say, then play the example a few times. You'll probably find that the example goes by very, very quickly in actual speech. That speed is what makes it very hard to discover these aspects of spoken language on your own. In fact, these contractions were born from people talking quickly in the rhythm of English.

Let me tell you the scene of the movie.

Helen and Bob are superheroes and are getting married. ||||super-heróis|||| Bob was nearly late for the wedding because he was out performing a super-act. Helen says, "Cutting it kinda close, don't you think?" ||cortando|||||| There is the phrase "to cut it close" in that sentence, which means that you didn't leave room for error. |||||narrowly avoid error||Narrow margin|||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||erro She uses the informal contraction kinda, to mean that she wants to tell her husband that he was too late for her to be comfortable. He then tells her to be more flexible, which is alluding to an earlier scene, but is also a common phrase. ||||||||||aludindo|||||||||| Then she says the sentence, " I love you, but if we're gonna make this work, you've gotta be more than Mr. lncredible. |||||||||||||||||||||Mr. Incredible You know that. Don't you?" She used the contraction gonna, for going + to, and gotta, for the words got + to. "If we're gonna make this work, you've gotta be more than Mr. Incredible" Then they go on to get married. Here's the clip. HELEN (ELASTIGIRL) Cutting it kinda close, don't you think? BOB (MR. INCREDIBLE) You need to be more... flexible. HELEN (ELASTIGIRL) I love you, but if we're gonna make this work, you've gotta be more than Mr. lncredible. You know that. Don't you? PRIEST ...so long as you both shall live? BOB (MR. INCREDIBLE) I do. PRIEST I pronounce this couple husband and wife.

Here is the whole clip one more time.

HELEN (ELASTIGIRL) Cutting it kinda close, don't you think? BOB (MR. INCREDIBLE) You need to be more... flexible. HELEN (ELASTIGIRL) I love you, but if we're gonna make this work, you've gotta be more than Mr. lncredible. You know that. Don't you? PRIEST ...so long as you both shall live? BOB (MR. INCREDIBLE) I do. PRIEST I pronounce this couple husband and wife.

I'll also add that audio separately online with the notes for this show so you can hear just this part again and again. If you bought the Pronunciation Pages book or are an SLA student and have full access to the website, there is a webpage in the stress lessons which also covers these informal contractions. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||aborda|||

As a review for today, we learned the following informal contractions: ||revisão||||||||

lemme wanna dunno lotta lotsa kinda gonna gotta wheredja whadja howdja

Start listening for them and notice their frequency.

Play around with using them in your own speech and see how you like them. If you don't live in the United States or most of your interaction is in English with other non-native speakers, using informal contractions may not have the effect you are hoping for, as it may make you harder to understand by other non-native English speakers. You be the judge. |||Du entscheidest. |||juiz

Remember, you can visit www.pronuncian.com to view the transcripts for this show and hear the clip for The Incredibles. Keep in mind|||||Pronunciation website|||||||||||||||

That's all for today everyone. Next week I'm going to begin teaching about some other aspects of speaking that will help your rhythm in spoken English, mainly about a concept called linking. |||||||||||||||||||||principalmente sobre|||||ligação sonora This has been a Seattle Learning Academy digital publication.

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