Is it correct to use GONNA and WANNA? Learn English with Luke Thompson

You might hear native speakers saying 'gonna' and 'wanna' in fluent speech, but is it correct?
If you're a learner of English, should you be saying and writing 'gonna' and 'wanna'?
Here's my advice:

Writing
Don't write 'gonna' or 'wanna' (unless it's very informal writing, like an email to a friend or an SMS). This is because 'gonna' and 'wanna' are features of pronunciation not written English, usually. Sometimes they're written down, but only in informal English, like in song lyrics you might read or in SMS test messages written quickly. For academic or IELTS writing, don't use 'wanna' or 'gonna'. Also, don't use them in business emails or reports. Honestly, they just don't look very professional.

Speaking
You can say 'gonna' or 'wanna' when you speak, but you have to do it correctly!
When you use 'gonna' you should remember the auxiliary verb 'be', and don't stress 'gonna' in the sentence.
No: "I gonna watch the football"
Yes: "I'm gonna watch the football"

I suggest that you learn to say "I'm going to" or "I want to" before you start saying "I'm gonna" and "I wanna".

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This is one of the best videos I have heard on this topic. So many videos teaching about "wanna", " gonna" " gotta" are promoting these non- words as grammatically correct not stressing to learn the proper way first. Thanks. I am a native English speaker from Canada and I was just curious about your video. I usually find myself commenting to those people in the comments that they should not accept these " words" as grammatically correct. I saw one video where this English teacher called these words English contractions with no mention of them not being real words necessarily. She was showing them how to use them without stressing to "learn the rules before breaking them" as you so said. Thanks for your video.

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I agree with you Luke, I think that initially there are fundamental rules in English (as in other languages ​​for that matter) that must be applied to the letter!
on the other hand, I also consider that it is possible after the fact, when one has a good command of the fundamental grammatical rules, to take a certain freedom on the basic rules
and to use a "more popular" language under these conditions the use of (gonna and wanna) does not bother me!

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