{"podcast":{"title":"Happy English Podcast","slug":"happy-english-podcast-739863","podcast_index_feed_id":739863,"rss_url":"http://feeds.feedburner.com/HappyEnglishPodcast","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/happy-english-podcast_1","image_url":"http://www.myhappyenglish.com/x9walos9f/uploads/2016/02/happy-english-podcast-3000.jpg","author":"Michael DiGiacomo Happy English (happyenglishny@gmail.com)","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Learn English with the Happy English Podcast. Fun, practical, and useful English lessons for students of all levels and ages. Learn American English idioms, phrasal verbs, pronunciation, confusing vocabulary, grammar and more! Get Happy, Get English. Happy English! Visit myhappyenglish.com to hear all of the episodes.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T18:20:48.384344+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-739863"},"episode":{"title":"1035 - WANNA WANTS-TUH Speak Naturally in a Minute","slug":"1035-wanna-wants-tuh-speak-naturally-in-a-minute","published_at":"2026-04-19T00:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-739863/1035-wanna-wants-tuh-speak-naturally-in-a-minute","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-739863","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/1035-wanna-wants-tuh-speak-naturally-in-a-minute--71401337","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71401337/1035_wanna_wants_tuh_speak_naturally_in_a_minute.mp3","summary":"Hey there! It’s Michael here - and welcome back to Speak Naturally in a Minute from Happy English. I’m here every week with a quick one-point lesson to help you improve your pronunciation, rhythm, and intonation. Today, let’s look at another very common reduction in American English: “want to.” In everyday conversation, want to becomes wanna. Do you want to go? becomes Do you wanna go? I want to eat. → I wanna eat. They want to leave early. → They wanna leave early. want to becomes wanna BUT wants to becomes wants-tuh: I wanna go, You wanna go, she wants-tuh go Don't use wanna for he, she, or it!!! Let's practice. Repeat after me. I wanna go. They wanna have it He wants-tuh do it. She wants-tuh know why. Hey, thanks for listening! And remember to follow and subscribe so you won’t miss the next Happy English Podcast and next week’s Speak Naturally in a Minute. Until next time, keep learning and keep it cool. The Happy English Podcast Helping people speak English better since 2014 Over 1,000 episodes • 8 million downloads 📘 Build your vocabulary with my free Vocabulary Workshop https://learn.myhappyenglish.com/vocabulary-workshop-signup 🎥 Watch video versions of the Happy English Podcast on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@HappyEnglishNY/podcasts 🌐 Learn more about my English lessons and courses https://www.myhappyenglish.com","meta_description":"Hey there! It’s Michael here - and welcome back to Speak Naturally in a Minute from Happy English. I’m here every week with a quick one-point lesson to he…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":116,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/happy-english-podcast-739863/episodes/1035-wanna-wants-tuh-speak-naturally-in-a-minute/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-739863/1035-wanna-wants-tuh-speak-naturally-in-a-minute.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}