Whatcha Wanna Do?
Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge
AJ Hoge
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🗓️ 1 May 2007
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello welcome to Effortless English Podcast. This is A.J. Hoag in San Francisco, California. |
| 0:08.0 | I keep saying the same thing every day, but damn it we have another sunny, bright, warm day. |
| 0:14.8 | This is what I wanted when I moved to California, great weather. |
| 0:18.2 | Usually we don't have this weather. |
| 0:19.4 | Usually it's kind of cold and gray. |
| 0:21.8 | But anyway, lots of great weather recently let's get started today's Wacha, whatcha. |
| 0:40.0 | Whatcha? What you mean? |
| 0:43.0 | Well, whatcha is the way we pronounce what you. |
| 0:50.0 | So what you is whatcha. |
| 0:58.5 | Many times in English when we have a T and then a Y. So T plus Y. So at the end of what, right, W H A T. T, T, and then the next word is Y, Y OU. Well we have a T and then a Y. |
| 1:13.8 | Well, many times we will change that sound, |
| 1:16.0 | what you, we will change the TU, |
| 1:19.1 | we'll change it to chuh, to a C.H sound, |
| 1:22.4 | chuh, ch, for example, let you, let you, L-E-O-U. |
| 1:30.0 | Let you becomes letcha, or let you or let you. |
| 1:35.0 | Let you. |
| 1:36.0 | And in what you becomes whatcha or what you |
| 1:41.0 | the T y changes to a c. ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch cha so |
| 1:46.7 | so how do we use this every day well every day we do this every single day here in America you will hear whatcha whatcha. The most |
| 1:58.1 | common phrase we say is this whatcha wanna do whatcha wanna do Whatcha want to do? |
| 2:03.0 | Whatcha want to do. |
| 2:06.5 | It means what do you want to do. |
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