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Speaker 1: Okay, I ain't gonna lie. This lesson may bother some people,

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but believe me when I tell you I ain't looking

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to cause any trouble. I'm just here as your humble

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English teacher with a lesson in English slang for you.

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Ain't that nice?

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from

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New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.

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Speaker 1: Alright, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael here

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from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast Episode seven sixty. Ain't

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I talking about? Ain't? That's today's English lesson topic. Do

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you have a request for a topic here? Just send

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me a message Atmhappy English dot com and let me know.

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Even although I ain't going to tell you a deep

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history of English slang, let's talk about a word that's

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both loved and hated, Ain't. This little contraction has quite

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the backstory. Ain't popped up in the early nineteenth century

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as a way to say am not, is not, or

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are not. In those days, ain't was considered to be

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a casual, informal word, and I quickly found a home

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in everyday's speech, especially in the South part of the

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United States. In the nineteen nineties, ain't became known as

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colloquial slang, and I remember my high school teachers wouldn't

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accept ain't as correct English, correct or not. Over the years,

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this powerful little word has been embraced in pop songs,

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TV shows, and movies. Love it or hate it, ain't

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has definitely made its mark on the English language. For

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today's podcast, lesson, let's check out how we use ain't

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in everyday conversational English. From a grammatical point of view,

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ain't is used as a contraction of am not, are not,

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and is not. Whenever someone asks me to explain the

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rules of American football, I have to tell them that

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I ain't interested in sports. I know it's popular, but

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I just ain't interested. My friends ain't interested in it either.

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I ain't. We ain't. It doesn't matter what the subject

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of the sentence is. You can use ain't. Jack ain't

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in the office today because he caught a cold. I

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guess Jack and his wife ain't going to the party

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tomorrow either. We ain't gonna have a good time without Jack,

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that's for sure. He ain't, They ain't. We ain't ain't

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that interesting. Ain't is also used as a contraction of

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have not and has not yes, ain't has even invaded

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the present perfect tense. I ain't seen my friend Steve

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since he moved to Florida. In fact, we ain't been

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to Florida in over ten years, and as far as

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I can remember, Steve ain't come back to New York

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for a visit. I ain't seen, we ain't been, he

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ain't come back. Ain't that a mouthful? And speaking of

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have and has, we also used ain't got, which means

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don't have or doesn't have. Debbie isn't working right now,

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so she ain't got enough money to take a vacation

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this year. The boss said that he ain't got enough

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time to look at my proposal. Today, when I open

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the fridge, I realized, we ain't got nothing to eat.

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I gotta go shopping. She ain't got, he ain't got,

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we ain't got, and that ain't all. It's also possible

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to use ain't in a yes or no question? Ain't

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that interesting? Ain't we going to the beach today? Ain't

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he supposed to be wearing a seat belt? You like

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my podcast? Huh? Ain't I so lucky? And finally, like

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I mentioned in episode seven, fifty nine. We can use

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ain't in a double negative sentence, like when we say

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I ain't got nobody to talk to, or Joe, he

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ain't got no money, so he's not going to the

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bar tonight. Like other kinds of slang, I'd say that

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ain't is good to know, but not necessarily good to use.

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Ain't can be used in casual conversations with your friends

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or relatives, but do remember it's slang, and slang ain't

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good to use in the business scene or informal conversations.

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Ain't that the truth. Keep in mind the best way

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to remember this kind of English, or any other word

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or phrase in English is to take that word or phrase,

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write it in a sentence that's true for you or

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true in your world, and then memorize your sentences. Hey,

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did you know that you can get the chance to

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practice this kind of English with me directly? You can

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practice these podcasts English lessons together. Plus you get access

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on top of that, each episode has exercises where you

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can practice this English point with speaking and writing checked

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by me. To learn more, just visit Myhappy English dot

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com and choose podcast lesson seven sixty. Remember, learning another

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language is not easy, but it's not impossible, and I'm

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here to help you on your journey.

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