Welcome to Speak English Now podcast with your host Georgiana, the podcast that will help

you to speak English fluently with no grammar and no textbooks.

In this episode, I'd like to help you to understand how to use words like Ghana, Wana, Gutter, and similar.

Later, a point of view story, to practice your English grammar and consolidate the information

that I'll be teaching in the first part. Let's get started. Are you confused about how and when to use words like

Ghana, wanta, and gatter?

We refer to these kind of words as contractions.

What's a contraction?

A contraction is created when two words in a row

come together and become one.

For example, I'm, is short for I am, it's, is short for it is.

Don't is short for do not, and won't is short for will not.

These are some of the contractions which are accepted as grammatically correct and are taught

in all English courses. However, in this lesson, I'll focus on the informal contractions.

These are not taught in grammar books, because their use is mostly colloquial.

For example, if you say going to really fast, you can shorten it to Ghana by dropping the final sound. If you say

want to really fast, it shortens to onea. These are informal contractions. You probably notice

that the grammatically correct English we learn in school is not the

same as the colloquial English in the street.

However, informal contractions are very common in colloquial English.

That's why you should familiarize yourself with them.

You don't need to start using them right away.

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