Native Speaker ေတြေျပာဆုိတာကုိ နားလည္ႏုိင္ေစဖုိ႔ နည္းလမ္းေကာင္း

• ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ႔လို English ဘာသာစကားကုိ Second Language အျဖစ္အသုံးျပဳေနသူမ်ားအတြက္ အဂၤလိပ္စကားေျပာဆုိသုံးႏႈန္းရာမွာ မသိမျဖစ္ သိထားသင့္တဲ့အပုိင္းကေတာ့ Native Speaker ေတြရဲ့ ေလယူေလသိမ္း (Accent) ကုိ ဖမ္းယူႏုိင္ဖုိ႔ နဲ႔ Native Speaker နီးနီး ေျပာဆုိႏိုင္ဖုိ႔ Reduced Form or Informal Contractions ေတြကုိ သိထားရမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
• ဥပမာ - What are you going to do? ဆုိတဲ့ အသုံးကုိ Native Speaker က သုံးေလ့ရွိတဲ့ ေလယူေလသိမ္းက Whatcha going to do? →Whatcha gonna do? ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီေလယူေလသိမ္းကုိ မသိထားဘူး၊ မေလ့လာထားဘူးဆုိရင္ သူဘာေျပာလိုက္မွန္း မသိႏုိင္ေတာ့ပါဘူး။ ဒီဥပမာမွာဆုိရင္ What are you ကုိ Whatcha ေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း၊ What are you going ကုိ Whatcha gonna ေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း Contraction ပုံစံနဲ႔ ေျပာဆုိသုံးႏႈန္းသြားတာကုိ သိထားရမွာပါ။ 
• ဒါေၾကာင့္ English Speaking ကုိ ေလ့လာသူေတြအေနျဖင့္ မသိမျဖစ္သိထားသင့္ထားတဲ့ Informal Contraction မ်ားကုိ တတ္ႏုိင္သမ်ွ စုစည္းတင္ျပေပးလုိက္ပါတယ္။ ေအာက္ပါတုိ႔ရဲ့ တစ္ခုခ်င္း Contract အေနနဲ႔ ေျပာင္းလဲသြားပုံကုိ ေလ့လာၾကည့္ပါ။ ႏႈတ္ကလည္း ဆုိၾကည့္ပါ။
• gonna (going + to)
  
• lemme (let + me)
  
• kinda (kind + of)
  
• dunno (don't + know)

• Do you want a beer?
• Do you wanna beer?
• D'you wanna beer?
• D'ya wanna beer?
• Ya wanna beer?
• Wanna beer?

• gimme = give me
  Gimme your money.
  Don't gimme that rubbish.
  Can you gimme a hand?
• gonna = going to
  Nothing's gonna change my love for you.
  I'm not gonna tell you.
  What are you gonna do?
• gotta = (have) got a
  I've gotta gun.
  I gotta gun.
  She hasn't gotta penny.
  Have you gotta car?
• gotta = (have) got to
  I've gotta go now.
  I gotta go now.
  We haven't gotta do that.
  Have they gotta work?
• kinda = kind of
  She's kinda cute.
• lemme = let me
  Lemme go!
• wanna = want to
  I wanna go home.
• wanna = want a
  I wanna coffee.
• whatcha = what are you
  Whatcha going to do?
• whatcha = what have you
  Whatcha got there?
• ya = you
  Who saw ya?

Contractions with "you"

original words	informal contraction	sentence
don't you	dontcha	Dontcha like the movie?
didn't you	didntcha	Didntcha like the movie?
won't you	wontcha	Wontcha drive the car?
what are you	whatcha or watcha	Whatcha doing?
got you	gotcha	I gotcha!
bet you	betcha	Betcha can't guess the answer!

Contractions with "have"

original words	informal contraction	sentence
should have	shoulda	I shoulda called yesterday.
could have	coulda	She coulda been here by 1:00.
would have	woulda	He woulda arrived earlier, but the train was late.
might have	mighta	You mighta left the bag at the airport.
must have	musta	You musta been in a hurry.
couldn't have	couldna	I couldna called because my phone was broken.
shouldn't have	shouldna	She shouldna told you that.
wouldn't have	wouldna	Nick wouldna known about the meeting.
she would have	she'da	She'da liked to be at the meeting today.
he would have	he'da	He'da liked to be there too.
I would have	I'da	I'da written to you, but I didn't have your address.
They would have	they'da	I wish they'da given me more time!
You would have	you'da	You'da enjoyed the concert last night.

Contractions with "of"

original words	informal contraction	sentence
kind of	kinda	I kinda like her.
out of	outta	The printer is outta paper.
cup of	cuppa	I need a cuppa coffee.
sort of	sorta	I sorta need that book.
a lot of	a lotta	I have a lotta homework tonight.

Contractions with "to"

original words	informal contraction	sentence
got to	gotta	I gotta buy a new car.
going to	gonna	She is gonna be there today.
need to	needa	I needa go shopping soon.
want to	wanna	I wanna blue car.
have to	hafta	I hafta save some money.
has to	hasta	Tim hasta work today.
ought to	oughta	She oughta work two jobs.
supposed to	supposeta	I'm supposeta start the job Monday.
used to	useta	She useta work there too.

Other informal contractions

original words	informal contraction	sentence
give me	gimme	Gimme five minutes.
let me	lemme	Lemme see it!
tell them	tellem	Tellem I'll be there soon.
don't know	dunno	I dunno what time it is.
am not  are not is not	ain't (This is very informal and considered bad English)	I ain't going to be there.
got a	gotta	I gotta new job.
come on	c'mon	C'mon! We don't want to be late!
some more	s'more	Can I have s'more water?