Are you gonna get GONNA right?!?

How many times can I use gonna in a short  conversation? Huh! I challenged myself to  

Quantas vezes consigo usar 'gonna' numa conversa curta? Huh! Me desafiei a

write this conversation to show you how we use  gonna in conversational English. My colleague  

escrever esta conversa para te mostrar como a gente usa 'gonna' no inglês de conversa. Meu colega

Tom and I recorded this conversation. I'm gonna tell John we were here. 

Tom e eu gravamos esta conversa. I'm gonna tell John we were here.

You're not gonna tell John we were here. And then I thought this would be more interesting  

You're not gonna tell John we were here. E aí eu pensei que seria mais interessante

if I created AI characters to use our voices. I made this AI copy for myself  

se eu criasse personagens de IA usando nossas vozes. Fiz esta cópia de IA para mim mesma

and I used this fake guy for Tom.  What do you think? Did we nail it? 

e usei este cara falso para o Tom. O que você acha? A gente mandou bem?

First, here's the conversation. Then,  we'll do a full pronunciation analysis.  

Primeiro, aqui está a conversa. Depois, vamos fazer uma análise completa de pronúncia.

At the end of this conversation, you'll have  a better understanding of the rhythm of spoken  

No fim desta conversa, você vai ter uma compreensão melhor do ritmo do inglês

American English. Here's the conversation. I'm gonna tell John we were here. 

americano falado. Aqui está a conversa. I'm gonna tell John we were here.

You're not gonna tell John we were here. I'm gonna tell John we were here  

because he's gonna know anyway. John's not gonna know we were here. 

He's gonna know we were here because  he's gonna see that his money's gone. 

He's not gonna see that. And if he  does, he's just gonna think he lost it.  

He's not gonna think we were here. I still think I'm gonna tell him. 

Now, let's look at the analysis. 

Agora, vamos ver a análise.

I'm gonna tell John we were here. So, it  starts pretty high. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, 

I'm gonna tell John we were here. Então, começa bem alto. I'm gonna, I'm gonna,

I'm gonna tell

I'm gonna tell  

John. So, tell is our main verb here. Gonna,  our helping verb. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, 

John. Então, tell é nosso verbo principal aqui. Gonna, nosso verbo auxiliar. I'm gonna, I'm gonna,

Gonna. Not stressed. 

Gonna. Não é tônico.

I'm gonna tell Tell, we have a little bit of a scoop up. I'm  

I'm gonna tell. Tell, temos um pequeno levantamento. I'm

gonna tell John we were here.

And then everything comes down after that. Tell John we were here.  

E aí tudo desce depois disso. Tell John we were here.

Little bit of stress on the word ‘here’.

Um pouco de ênfase na palavra 'here'.

I'm gonna tell John we were here. 

But gonna, said very quickly,  gonna, gonna. Linked with I'm. 

Mas gonna, dito bem rápido, gonna, gonna. Ligado com I'm.

I’m gonna

I'm gonna

See if you can do it that quickly.

Veja se você consegue fazer isso tão rápido.

I'm gonna. 

I'm gonna tell I'm gonna tell John we were here. 

I'm gonna tell. I'm gonna tell John we were here.

And all of the energy volume comes down from  that peak of stress when we scoop up for tell. 

E todo o volume de energia desce daquele pico de ênfase quando a gente faz o levantamento em tell.

I'm gonna tell John we were here.

You're not gonna tell John we were here. 

You're not gonna. Not gets quite a bit of stress.  

You're not gonna. Not recebe bastante ênfase.

Not. And it is a stop T. We don't release T  with that sound. We just have not abrupt stop  

Not. E é um stop T. A gente não solta o T com aquele som. Só temos um stop abrupto em not

and then the G sound.

e depois o som de G.

You're not gonna— 

Just like I'm was said very quickly here. I'm I'm  I'm. You are, you’re is also said very quickly.  

Igual a como I'm foi dito bem rápido aqui. I'm I'm I'm. You are, you're também é dito bem rápido.

It actually reduces. Your becomes yer, yer, yer  with the schwah R sound. So, just think of it as  

Na verdade se reduz. Your vira yer, yer, yer com o som de schwa + R. Então, pense nisso como

a Y sound and an R sound.

um som de Y e um som de R.

You're 

You’re not gonna tell. You're not gonna tell. You're not gonna.  

You're not gonna tell. You're not gonna tell. You're not gonna.

Then our unstressed word gonna, just  falling down in pitch. You're not gonna. 

Aí nossa palavra átona gonna, só caindo de tom. You're not gonna.

Gonna

gonna tell John we were here. 

Tell John we were here. So, we have up down  shape of stress on John. John, we were here. 

Tell John we were here. Então, temos um formato sobe-desce de ênfase em John. John, we were here.

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Eu sou a Rachel. Tenho formação em canto lírico e venho ensinando o sotaque americano a

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your mind. It will give you totally new ideas  on how to get the sound you've always wanted. 

sua cabeça. Vai te dar ideias totalmente novas sobre como conseguir o som que você sempre quis.

John we were here. The word tell, it's a verb,  

John we were here. A palavra tell, é um verbo,

but it doesn't really get the stress the way John  does in this sentence here. You're not gonna tell  

mas não recebe a ênfase do jeito que John recebe nesta frase aqui. You're not gonna tell

John. So, not and John get the most stress here.

John. Então, not e John recebem a maior ênfase aqui.

You're not gonna tell John we were here. 

Whereas in my sentence, I stress the action,  what I was gonna do. I stress tell the most.  

Enquanto que na minha frase, eu enfatizo a ação, o que eu ia fazer. Eu enfatizo tell mais que tudo.

Tom wants to make sure I don't tell John. So,  he's stressing the negative and the object. John,  

Tom quer garantir que eu não conte ao John. Então, ele enfatiza o negativo e o objeto. John,

he doesn't want John to know.

ele não quer que o John saiba.

You're not gonna tell John we were here. 

I'm gonna tell John we were here because  he's gonna know anyway. I'm gonna tell John.  

So again, gonna helping verb, not stressed but  tell and John, both stressed. So I am going to  

Então de novo, gonna verbo auxiliar, não tônico, mas tell e John, ambos tônicos. Então 'I am going to'

pronounced

pronunciado

I'm gonna 

Gonna. It's almost like there's not even really  a vowel here. Usually in IPA, I would write this  

Gonna. É quase como se nem houvesse uma vogal aqui. Normalmente em IPA, eu escreveria este

gonna with the uh as in butter vowel. But I do  think sometimes it's said so quickly that it's  

gonna com a vogal 'uh' de butter. Mas eu acho que às vezes é dito tão rápido que fica

more like a schwa.

mais como um schwa.

Gonna 

With kind of a feel that there  isn't even a vowel there. 

Com tipo uma sensação de que nem há uma vogal ali.

Gonna

I'm gonna 

I'm gonna tell John. I'm gonna tell John we were here. 

We were here, and here. Stress goes up.  Here. Because I'm about to explain why. 

We were here, e here. A ênfase sobe. Here. Porque eu estou prestes a explicar por quê.

We were here. We were both unstressed said very quickly. 

We were here. We were, ambos átonos, ditos bem rápido.

We were.

We were here. 

Because he's gonna know anyway. because he's gonna know anyway.

All of that stresses are one word no.  

Toda essa ênfase está numa palavra, no know.

Because he's gonna know anyway. Everything else just sort of leading up to that peak of stress  

Because he's gonna know anyway. Todo o resto meio que levando até aquele pico de ênfase

or falling away from that peak of stress. Because he is going to becomes, 

ou caindo daquele pico de ênfase. 'Because he is going to' vira,

cuz he's gonna

So because gets reduced it's just K  

Então because se reduz, fica só K

schwa Z.

kəz 

The h gets dropped in he's so now  that's just the e vowel, kəz iz 

O h é derrubado em he's, então agora isso é só a vogal e, kəz iz

and the apostrophe s makes a z sound.

e o apóstrofo s faz um som de z.

kəz iz gonna 

know anyway. Linked together  

know anyway. Ligado

very smoothly and not very clear. No is our  most clear stressed word, our main verb there. 

bem suavemente e não muito claro. No é nossa palavra tônica mais clara, nosso verbo principal ali.

Because he's gonna know anyway. John's not gonna know we were here. 

Three stressed words there. None of them are  gonna. John's not gonna know we were here.  

Três palavras tônicas ali. Nenhuma delas é gonna. John's not gonna know we were here.

Everything else flatter in pitch,  linking things together, less clear.  

Todo o resto mais plano de tom, ligando as coisas, menos claro.

Again, we have a stop T. Not gonna. Not gonna.  You're never going to hear not gonna. Not gonna. 

De novo, temos um stop T. Not gonna. Not gonna. Você nunca vai ouvir not gonna. Not gonna.

You'll never hear that true T release. It's  always going to be a stop T in this case  

Você nunca vai ouvir aquela soltura de true T. Vai ser sempre um stop T neste caso,

when it's followed by gonna. John's not gonna.

quando é seguido por gonna. John's not gonna.

Gonna. 

John's not gonna—

know we were here. 

And again, we were said very  quickly a little bit unclearly. 

E de novo, we were dito bem rápido, um pouco sem clareza.

We were—

And then more stress  

E aí mais ênfase

and up down shape of stress on here.

e formato sobe-desce de ênfase em here.

We were here. 

He's gonna know we were here. So in this first part of the sentence,  

He's gonna know we were here. Então, nesta primeira parte da frase,

two stressed words. He's gonna know,  our main verb. Gonna know we were here. 

duas palavras tônicas. He's gonna know, nosso verbo principal. Gonna know we were here.

He's gonna know we were here.

He's going to becomes 

'He's going to' vira

‘He's gonna’  

'He's gonna'

Again, don't think of putting a clear uh 

De novo, não pense em pôr uma vogal 'uh' clara

vowel in here. It's really more of a schwa because  it's so fast, because it's said so quickly. 

aqui. É realmente mais um schwa porque é tão rápido, porque é dito tão rápido.

Gonna

He's gonna 

He's gonna know we were here. With that nice longer up down shape of stress  

He's gonna know we were here. Com aquele bom formato sobe-desce mais longo de ênfase

on our two stressed syllables. Know we were here. And again, we were, much faster, lower in pitch. 

nas nossas duas sílabas tônicas. Know we were here. E de novo, we were, muito mais rápido, mais baixo de tom.

He's gonna know we were here—

because he's gonna see that his money's gone. 

So, we have our primary verb, our main verb  stressed, and a noun, his money, our object.  

Então, temos nosso verbo primário, nosso verbo principal tônico, e um substantivo, his money, nosso objeto.

Gonna, our helping verb again unstressed.  So because he is going to is pronounced 

Gonna, nosso verbo auxiliar de novo átono. Então 'because he is going to' se pronuncia

cuz he's gonna—

Again, because is reduced, it becomes kəz. K consonant, 

De novo, because se reduz, vira kəz. Consoante K,

schwa z sound, kəz. And that Z links into  the E vowel because we've dropped the H. 

som de schwa z, kəz. E aquele Z se liga à vogal E porque a gente derrubou o H.

kəz is That's also a Z.  

kəz is. Esse também é um Z.

Then gonna, gonna. I'm going to  write that with two schwas.

Aí gonna, gonna. Vou escrever isso com dois schwas.

Gəna. 

Cuz he's gonna— see that his money's gone. 

Because he's gonna see. Then see, a little bit  longer a little bit of an up down shape of stress.  

Because he's gonna see. Aí see, um pouco mais longo, um pouco de formato sobe-desce de ênfase.

This is usually the way our main  verbs are. They are usually stressed. 

Esse geralmente é o jeito dos nossos verbos principais. Eles costumam ser tônicos.

Let's look at the words that and his.

Vamos olhar as palavras that e his.

that his— 

Also unstressed and reduced. This is the symbol  in the international phonetic alphabet for the th.  

Também átonas e reduzidas. Este é o símbolo no alfabeto fonético internacional para o th.

The a vowel changes to the schwa.  

A vogal a muda para o schwa.

That—

This t actually becomes a flap t linking  together two vowels, the schwa and the i vowel  

Este t na verdade vira um flap t ligando duas vogais, o schwa e a vogal i,

because the h is dropped here.

porque o h é derrubado aqui.

That his— 

That his here in conversation.

That his aqui na conversa.

That his— 

The tongue is just a flap here. Just a  quick bounce up and down against the roof  

A língua é só um flap aqui. Só um rápido toque para cima e para baixo contra o céu

of the mouth.

da boca.

That is— 

That his money's gone. Money's gone. So stress  on the first syllable that has the uh as in  

That his money's gone. Money's gone. Então, ênfase na primeira sílaba, que tem a vogal 'uh' de

butter vowel and then the second two syllables  just come in as the voice falls off in pitch. 

butter, e aí as duas sílabas seguintes só entram conforme a voz cai de tom.

Money's gone. He's not gonna see that. 

He's not gonna see that. Okay, again the  negative word not. He's not, stop t, gonna  

He's not gonna see that. Ok, de novo a palavra negativa not. He's not, stop t, gonna

see that. And our main verb, stressed, up down  shape of stress, a little bit longer. Always a  

see that. E nosso verbo principal, tônico, formato sobe-desce de ênfase, um pouco mais longo. Sempre um

stop t followed by gonna. Not gonna. Not gonna.

stop t seguido de gonna. Not gonna. Not gonna.

He's not gonna see that. 

Gonna said so quickly. Gonna— 

Gonna dito tão rápido. Gonna—

he's not gonna— he's not gonna see— 

he's not gonna see that. See that. Now, the vowel here doesn't get reduced,  

he's not gonna see that. See that. Agora, a vogal aqui não se reduz,

we don't reduce it when it's the end of a thought  group. See that. That would be a little bit weird  

a gente não a reduz quando é o fim de um grupo de pensamento. See that. Isso seria um pouco estranho,

so we keep the a vowel see that. That, that,  that. Stop t, it's still unstressed, It's quieter,  

então mantemos a vogal a, see that. That, that, that. Stop t, ainda é átono, é mais baixo,

lower in pitch. It's not that with an up down  shape of stress. It is flat, but the vowel doesn't  

mais baixo de tom. Não é that com formato sobe-desce de ênfase. É plano, mas a vogal não

change to the schwa.

muda para o schwa.

That. 

See that.

And if he does. 

And if he. Little bit on if. And if he.

And if he. Um pouco em if. And if he.

And if he— 

And if he does— Does, 

So we have the word ‘and’ reduced.

Então temos a palavra 'and' reduzida.

and