0241 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—I'm fixing to ~... I'm finna ~...

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

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🗓️ 28 December 2014

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today’s expression and dialog: I’m fixing to ~…I’m finna ~… I’m fixing to go to the store. Great! Get me some cheese. You cooking? I’m finna make some hammers! Please subscribe on iTunes and get this podcast EVERY DAY! Support Coach Shane by giving $1 a month! www.patreon.com/coachshane Our sponsors: https://letsmasterenglish.leadpages.net/pirf/ (Join PIRF—Coach Shane’s Speaking Class!) www.letsmasterenglish.com/tryddm (Get 8 FREE DDM lessons!) www.audibletrial.com/lme (Get a free AUDIO BOOK!) www.letsmasterenglish.com/ddmlite (Join DDM and get 1 lesson every week!) Our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/DailyEasyEnglish

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, my name is Coach Shane and welcome to easy English expressions.
0:11.0	You and me every day, come on, let's master English.
0:29.5	Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression.
0:33.3	Today's podcast is brought to you by Perf.
0:35.9	I'll talk about that later.
0:40.4	Today's expression is, I'm fixing to.
0:43.8	And I'm finna.
0:46.1	What?
0:46.6	Okay.
0:49.4	So the first one, I'm fixing two.
1:16.4	I am fixing F-I-X-I-N-G-2. T-O. I'm fixing to, dot, da-da-da-da. I'm fixing F-I-X-I-N-G-2. I'm fixing to dot-da-da-da. I'm fixing to go to bed. I'm fixing to make an expression. I'm fixing to watch TV. What does that mean? That means I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to make an expression. I'm going to go to bed i'm going to make an expression i'm going to watch tv i'm going to i'm going to i will right now i'm getting ready to so if i say i'm fixing to make dinner
1:25.5	that means i'm getting ready to make dinner. Probably within five minutes,
1:30.8	I will be making dinner. I'm fixing to go to bed. I'm getting ready to go to bed. That means
1:39.0	within five or ten minutes, I will probably be turning off the lights and going to sleep.
1:46.3	So, I'm fixing to.
1:49.2	Now, if we say that really fast, it sounds like, I'm fixing to, I'm fixing to, I'm fixing to go to sleep.
1:56.2	I'm fixing to go to sleep.
1:59.1	I'm fixing to go to sleep.
2:05.5	And what's really interesting, some people in America, they say it even faster. And it sounds like, I'm finna, I'm finna, I'm finna, go to sleep. And that's what I wrote. I am finna.
2:20.6	F-I-N-N-A.
2:21.9	That pronunciation is the super fast, perhaps we could say the urban pronunciation in many cases of I'm fixing to.
2:32.8	And it means I'm going to.
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