We’re listening to contractions in Spoken English

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5 thoughts on “We’re listening to contractions in Spoken English

  1. Amr Wady

    Hello Helen, I found that it was a little bit difficult to recognize, “we’re going to meet.” & “I’m going to wear.”

    Thank you for your help. Have a happy day. Greetings from Egypt.:)

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    1. Helen Cunningham Post author

      Hi Amr
      Often going to sounds like gonna . When this happens you can not hear the word TO.

      In We’re going to meet the We’re was reduced even further to a W sound. W gonna meet.

      The same things happens with I’m going to wear. The I’m reduces ever further to a shwa sound and going to is heard as gonna.

      does this explanation help? Please get in touch if you have any more questions about anything you hear.

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  2. marina

    Hi Helen, I couldn’t work out ‘talk to you’ to me it sounded like’torture you’ which doesn’t make sense in the context. Also I didn’t catch ‘want’ in the past form right at the beginning. Thanks for your work.

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    1. Juliana Alves Mota

      Hi, Helen!

      I’m here after following the link at the end of the exercise “where is the restaurant?”

      I had the same impression as Marina: I understood TORTURE in the place of “wanted to talk to you” and I couldn’t understand PHONE ME BACK, to me it sounded like “for me back” .

      I love your activities! Thank you! 🙂

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