LIVE LESSON CAN vs CANT
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doing a live lesson today and it’s about
can versus can’t so I’m going to show
you a few videos from my archive one of
them talks about can versus can’t and
the different pronunciation there as far
as the T and the vowel itself that video
I mean I think I made that video like
eight years ago nine it’s an old one and
then we’re gonna watch one where we go
over the reduction of the word
can and we see some real-life examples
of that in another video
from the archive so we’re gonna have a
lot of fun watching these together and
while those videos are playing I am
keeping an eye on the chat so if you
have questions throw them there and I
won’t be able to answer everybody’s
questions but I will do my best to
answer them as I see them coming through
yeah and that’s how it’s gonna work if
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environment okay so we’re gonna get
started over here with the first video
which is about how to pronounce can
versus can’t pay attention about the T
and how that stop T makes a more abrupt
ending and then we’ll also look at
examples where we talk about how the
vowel reduces alright let me make myself
small here so I’m not blocking the video
and we’ll take a listen today I’m going
to talk about the difference between can
and can’t how to hear it how to say it
you’ve probably noticed that you can’t
rely on hearing a good T sound because
most Americans when they’re speaking
everyday speech don’t release final T’s
first of all if you haven’t seen the
video on NT contractions watch that
first in that video you learned that the
N apostrophe T is pronounced a nasal end
here in the nose cut very short by a
stop T so let’s compare the two words
can can’t can can’t what do you hear
being different let’s not even limit
ourselves to just the sounds but
anything can can’t can you tell that the
first word is longer this stop T of camp
okay so are you guys hearing that
difference when it’s not in a sentence
and it’s just the word and one of them
has a stop T and the other doesn’t
can can’t can you hear the difference
it’s subtle but it’s just about that
abrupt stop can tends to fall off more
can has more of that downward
pronunciation of the shape of stress the
pitch
whereas camp which is an apostrophe T
the negative has more of an abrupt stop
so can can’t also thank you to those of
you in the chat that knew the phrase
stir-crazy and put it in the chat
so that other people could see it I saw
some people asking for the spelling and
other people giving it so thank you so
much for helping me out it’s hard for me
to type and watch the videos at the same
time Oh someone says they went shopping
near Philly and King of Prussia yeah
that’s about 45 minutes from where I
live that’s cool
I hope you got some good stuff okay
we’re going back now to can versus Kant
chops it makes it a little bit more rank
myself down can can’t this may be
something that is difficult for you to
distinguish right now but if you know to
listen for can a little bit longer a
little smoother versus can’t can’t a
little shorter a little bit more abrupt
it may help you develop an ear for this
a note on the pronunciation of the word
can you’ve probably noticed that this
word often reduces the as in bat vowel
is changed to the schwa okay can can I
can do it the word can’t does not reduce
that vowel sound okay so that’s an
important distinction there we have a
reduction and if you’ve been watching
any of my videos for any length of time
I feel pretty confident that you’ve
learned what a reduction is because they
come up a lot and how that affects the
language so in the word can’t that vowel
will never change the T might drop but
the vowel will never change in the word
can the vowel change is very much very
often most of the time whenever it’s a
helping verb it becomes so that’s pretty
different from can so that is one of our
clues about the difference now I saw
someone in chat asking about how to
pronounce how to and that’s an example
of another reduction the word to reduces
very often and so the vowel ooh
becomes the schwa so it’s actually going
to be too most of the time but you can
actually even change the T sound to a
flap T which sounds similar to the
American D between vowels
so if I wanted to say how to with that
to reduction I would say how to how to
do you know how to open this how to how
to everyone out there try it now say it
out loud how to how de so I’m saying the
word how I’m flapping my tongue quickly
against the roof of the mouth and then
it’s a very neutral schwa sound how de
do you know how to do this I need to
know how to do this can someone help me
learn how to do this how to how to how
to and that’s what we’re talking about
here with can the reduction it becomes
said so fast now later in this video
we’re gonna see a lot of examples of
that word that can reduced to continue
life English okay let’s head back check
in and we’re gonna finish out this video
which is on can vs. can’t and we’ll be
looking at some of those examples where
the vowel reduces but then also some
where it doesn’t so that you can focus a
little bit more on what that stop T
feels like so you can also use that as a
way to differentiate the two words okay
let’s keep going never changes into the
schwa sound so that’s another way to
help you distinguish between these two
words let’s look at some sentences I can
understand I can’t understand could you
hear the difference I can understand I
can’t understand can can’t can can’t the
vowel sound is different because in the
first sentence it’s being reduced to the
schwa and here
can you help later I can’t I can I can’t
I can do you sense that the first
response is a little bit more abrupt I
can’t I can’t
and the second one a little bit more
relaxed can can can a little smoother
that one might have been a little harder
because the vowel didn’t change I told
her I can’t okay taking a break from
that a couple questions coming in
someone asked about cannot what happened
to the word cannot how is it pronounced
use it we definitely do use it sometimes
and if we do we would probably stress
the knot I cannot believe she said that
I cannot understand why they would do
that have you ever heard that now that
I’m saying it I’m I’m saying it by
reducing the first syllable can and then
really stressing the second syllable I
cannot believe what happened it’s a
little bit stronger a little bit more
dramatic than can’t which has the same
meaning it’s just a contraction I can’t
believe that happened I cannot believe
that happened so it brings a little bit
more stress and drama to the situation
if we use the word cannot someone else
asked with the word can how would we
pronounce that end before an S like I
can see I can see you I can see the
person was asking about that transition
so if I say I can see I can see my
tongue is up at the roof of the mouth
for the N
hmm I can I can
then to make the s I just let my teeth
be together if they’re not already like
and they do bring my tongue tip down so
it’s not far because my jaw is barely
open at all but it goes from n to I then
feel my tongue tip behind my bottom
front teeth and I let the air come
through since I can see I can see okay
we’re gonna head back to the video where
we’re hearing more examples of can
versus can’t and of course without can’t
being pronounced that fully I told her I
can again the vowel is the same in both
of them I told her I can I told her I
can but do you notice that the last can
can a little smoother and a little
longer I told her I can’t more abrupt in
that first sentence you can come you
can’t come you can come you can’t come
in the first sentence the word can is
reduced so much good good you can come
it’s almost not even there you can come
you can’t come so the two tricks here
are one if the sound is abrupt and
chopped can’t can’t then it’s the word
can’t and two if the vowel sound changes
to the schwa then it’s the word can can
come I can do it that’s it and thanks so
much for using Rachel’s English
okay excellent ending out that video
don’t worry we have another one cued up
so someone I think I saw to pronounce
the name shall we shall way said they go
to school at University City in Philly
awesome hello I’m just across the river
from you as you know okay so someone
asked how to pronounce kovat 19 co vid
in American English we would do that
with first syllable stress kovat and
then 19 it would have second syllable
stress Cove in 19 actually if you go to
youtube and you search Rachel’s English
coronavirus or Kovan
tene I did make a video about that about
probably six weeks ago now where I go
over the pronunciation and some of the
terms that you may hear or see in the
news regarding what’s happening the
current situation okay so one is asking
how much do you need every day to
improve your English one hour or two I
would say two would probably get you
there faster but it really depends on
what you’re doing with that time of
course you want to be using the right
materials and you want to make sure that
you’re not burning yourself out to the
point where you’re having a harder time
absorbing what you’re studying and you
want to study a variety of different
ways with a variety of different things
you could do some vocabulary study out
of a vocabulary builder book but then
also do some watching television or
listening to a podcast finding key
phrases this is where it could be useful
to take an online course or watch a
video on YouTube on a subject that’s
important to you like if you’re a
physics student try to watch youtube
videos in English on physics so that
you’re seeing the pronunciation you’re
hearing the pronunciation of the words
you need you’re seeing key phrases you
can learn the grammar of specific topics
that are important to you someone says
in the phrase can’t try which T is
released let’s take let’s let’s change
that to can’t take because in the word
can’t try that TR cluster is usually
going to be Proust CH are most Americans
will do that have you noticed we don’t
say train we usually say train train so
in the phrase can’t try can’t try you
can think of it as just being one full T
can’t there’s a stop and then try or
what did I say take you’re releasing
that T into the vowel can’t take can’t
try so think of it as one full T one
stop and one release into the next sound
Jose in Mexico hello hi Alan in Brazil
still got people telling me where
they’re from I love that it’s so
interesting to see where people are from
someone is commenting on the shadowing
technique of being really effective you
know that’s not what I’ve tried myself
but I’d be interested to see if other
people have tried that and they think
it’s effective or part of my hesitation
with having my students do it
is I feel like when they are doing that
there’s not always time to process what
they’re hearing in a way that lets them
really absorb it but you know I think
different techniques have their merits
and I think actually if you study with a
variety of techniques and it keeps you
engaged that they can each bring their
own benefits so why not how many of you
use the shadow technique when you’re
studying English and working on your
English okay so we’re talking here
primarily about can versus can’t we’ve
just watched a video on the difference
in pronunciation one of the main
differences is that the word can is
usually a helping verb and reduces and
becomes okay so now we’re gonna head
over to a different video from a couple
of years ago where we look at several
examples of that reduction in real-life
English
I love reductions and I love finding
them and hearing them in real-life
English because when you start to
understand this and you start being able
to hear this and that’s really when
listening comprehension can improve and
then also it becomes opportunity when
you’re noticing it in other speakers for
you to start integrating it into your
own speech and then you sound so
amazingly natural when you start using
these reductions so remember it’s not
can its canoe can how fast can you make
the word can with no vowel sound can
that’s your goal all right let’s move on
to the next video and see if you can
focus on how fast that cam reduction
shoots by excerpts from other videos but
we’re focused on just one thing the can
reduction after this we’ll go to yulish
for even more examples
I made this video for my friends Super
Bowl party I hear that there’s chili to
be had can you step through how to
pronounce chili Hilary did you notice I
reduced the word can that’s because it’s
a helping verb here the main verb being
step through can you step through
come-come can you step through listen
again okay before we listen again step
through what does this mean this means
break it down into steps into little
parts and explain it let’s step through
the process of how to pronounce the word
chili also did you notice that Hilary
said there we’ve got tons of chili tunz
tunz so this is a word we use in
exaggeration to mean a lot of we’ve got
tons of chili what else would that be
something good for well here at our
house we have tons of cereal Stoney
loves it and we don’t go grocery
shopping that often now so when we do we
buy tons all right let’s go back and
listen because we’re about to hear that
example again that can reduce example in
that video you step through how to
pronounce chili Hilary can you step
through how to pronounce chili Hilary
can you step through how to pronounce
chili Hilary I would like but how do you
do it this video I made on summer
vacation several years ago this is my
Uncle Frank Uncle Frank brings his boat
every year so that we can try skiing did
you notice the reductions of the word
that and can these two function words
will often reduce that becomes the with
either a flap or stop T depending on the
next sound and can when not the main
verb in a sentence becomes can-can so
the weekend so the weekend so that we
can try skiing try and skiing the two
content okay this is interesting because
this is showing
right now the word try and I’m really
singing it more like try with that CH
pronunciation aren’t I try so someone
asks in the word can do we ever turn
that n sound into an M for example in
the word grandpa we don’t pronounce it
that way we say we often say grandpa
with an M instead of an N now but in the
word can do I think the N changes into
an M when we reduce it no I don’t I can
see
come see come see I can do that can do
can do no I don’t think so actually you
know the N we can make a little bit
faster because it’s just about the
tongue hmm and I think we can move that
a little faster than our lips hmm
so I I don’t think that that is
something that I’ve ever heard or
noticed and you know I’ve done a lot of
analyzing and when I’m working on a Ben
Franklin style analysis which you’ve
probably seen on this channel before I
really slow stuff down and I listen to
it many times in order to decide how I
want to talk about how it’s pronounced
and I don’t think I’ve ever once thought
that I was hearing the N changing to an
M in that reduction so my answer to that
would be no I don’t think we do that
someone says what accent are you
teaching so I teach what’s called the
standard American accent it’s not
associated with any particular region
although I have also heard it called
Midwestern English and that is a region
I’ve also heard it called broadcaster
English but basically I try to teach a
very neutral American accent
someone says how long have you lived in
Philadelphia as far as what year you
know I’m not good at that I’m not good
at remembering dates I think I’ve been
in Philadelphia for six or seven years
something like that
I should probably be able to know what
when did I move I moved in January I
know that I just don’t know what year
okay let’s continue on with these
real-life English example
of the can reduction where it becomes
words in this sentence are clearly much
longer than so the weaken so that we can
said that we can
these four function words are low in
pitch and very fast listen again or so
that we can try skiing here so that we
can try skiing here so that we can try
skiing on did you make that necklace can
you hold it up for me another reduction
of can can can you can you can you hold
it up for me can you hold it up for me
can you hold it up for me I made this
video after Hurricane sandy hit the US
Laura the reason why I can hardly see
you is because powers out in this
sentence the word can is a helping verb
it’s not the main verb so it’s a
function word and I’m reducing it to Kin
Kin I can I can listen again Laura the
reason why I can I can I can Laura the
reason why I can hardly see you is
because powers out of course it looks
like you can’t see her at all but I
could see her in real life a little bit
better than that okay a couple other
questions coming through so someone says
what about when can is the main verb
then you do fully pronounce it for
example if someone said who can help
tomorrow I could say I can and if that’s
my only verb in my sentence I can then
it’s gonna be fully pronounced can can
if I was gonna make the sentence a
little bit longer and I would say I can
do it I can help then I’m gonna reduce
it to can but if it’s all I’m saying I
can or I just lost my train of thought I
was gonna say can you but there I would
reduce it whoa the lighting just changed
in my room and look what happened to my
green screen no the Sun went behind the
clouds oh ow so now everyone knows that
this is not actually the room I’m in I’m
using a green screen and it looked great
didn’t it
it looked so great until
until the the Sun went behind the cloud
let me see if I can change that here on
the fly do you know that phrase on the
fly means in the moment but I don’t know
if I can do much that’s gonna make it
make a difference there we go okay
that’s a little bit better isn’t it
sorry about that guys whoo there are so
many things you have to do when you’re a
youtuber you have to say what you want
to say you have to make sure the setup
is right make sure the lighting is right
make sure you shrink yourself down when
you start the video how it’s a challenge
all right let’s head back to that video
and hopefully the lighting won’t change
again if you ever need to recharge
anything just come on up to my apartment
you can have all the power and internet
that you want another can reduction you
can you can you can have you can have
you can have you can have all the power
and Internet that you want will do and
hot water thank you you’re welcome
in this video I interview a broadcaster
erica hill if i don’t know how to
pronounce it I’ll look it up so I will
either call the International desk and
see if there’s someone there who is
familiar if it’s a different language
who speaks who’s a native speaker of
that language so that they can say it
for me
MS Hills speech as with all native
speakers is filled with productions here
she’s given us a great example of the
reduction of the word can so that they
can say it for me here can is a helping
verb and say is the main verb most of
the time can is a helping verb in these
cases we reduce the pronunciation to can
so we change the vowel to the schwa but
just like in Europe the next consonant
here the N absorbs the schwa so it’s
just two sounds hmm
can can okay is everybody gonna try that
try that don’t just watch it try it can
can now someone’s asking about
the difference between I can see that
toy or I can’t see that toy so I’m gonna
say a phrase and then I want you to
guess is it can or is it can’t I can do
it I can do it now I’m gonna do the
opposite I can’t do it I can’t do it
which one do you think was first can or
can’t I’ll do it again I can do it
are you hearing it it’s can of the
reductions that very quickly can so the
difference is I can do it can’t I can’t
do it can can’t can can’t and in the
rest of this video that we’re watching
here now these are all reductions so
they’re all can but reduced and also
thank you guys for all of your all of
your chat
I love reading them as they come in
someone says what’s the meaning of blah
blah blah well we would do that if
somebody was saying something and we
didn’t need to hear more or if we were
saying something and we didn’t feel like
we needed to explain it more we could
say blah blah blah blah blah blah it’s
sort of like saying you know what I mean
or I’m not gonna go into the details or
this is getting boring hopefully you
don’t think that about this video all
right let’s continue on we’re
interviewing a broadcaster here she’s
awesome she works for NBC and she talks
really fast so we have a lot of
reductions not just the can reduction
that she’s using as she goes she says it
incredibly fast but the main verb say
has much more length and that nice shape
of a stressed syllable can say this
rhythmic contrast of short and long
syllables is very important in American
English so that they can say they can
say they can say they can say it for me
or I’ll look it up online if I can’t
find it you know if it’s a regular word
I’ll go to one of the dictionary
websites and oftentimes you can hit a
button and you can hear that word you
can hit again a great reduction of the
function word the helping verb can you
can you can and oftentimes you can hit
can hit you can hit a button and you can
hear that worth another can reduction
can hear right here right here right
here that worth I’ll do that or I will
go and listen to whatever I can find in
terms of video online another can
reduction can find I’ll do that or I
will go and listen to whatever I can
find in whatever I can find in whatever
I can find in terms of video online here
okay everyone try that whatever I can
find whatever I can find can try it out
loud now isolate the word can connect in
and then we’ll do the whole phrase
whatever I can find
it’s kind of hard isn’t it whatever I
can find whatever I can find
I can I can I can I can I can is I can I
can whatever I can find do you ever use
this reduction if you don’t really try
it come up with a bunch of phrases where
you would use the word can and do it
reduced I can try it I can do it I can
see it I can cook whatever can put it
with any verb alright let’s keep going
it can be yeah it can be time-consuming
here we’re stressing the word can not
always but it can be so we’re not
reducing the word we’re keeping the ad
as in bat vowel so it can be can be
time-consuming it can be it can be it
can be it can be yeah but it’s worth it
I think what are the worst things you
can do is mispronounce someone think
yeah in this video I’m on top of the
mountain okay so someone asked what if
can is the first word then should you
not reduce it are you still able to
reduce it you can definitely still
reduce it for example can you be here
tomorrow can can can can you be here
tomorrow can you see it can concurrent
so even if it’s the first word it can
still be reduced it can there I’m
stressing it so I’m not reducing it it
can still be reduced
can’t-can’t so that shouldn’t matter for
you you know a lot of questions
start with can and it’s totally fine to
go ahead and make that reduction with my
dad it’s pretty high very high as you
can see very cold and windy yeah we just
heard two more reductions the word can a
helping verb here was reduced to Kim how
fast can you make that practice with me
can can can can see listen again you can
see you can see you can see in this
video I’m on vacation Kim Kim Kim Kim
okay someone was just clarifying so when
it’s emphatic you don’t need to reduce
it that’s right if you want to stress it
for its own meaning then you can
certainly stress it if someone says
Rachel you can’t do that you can’t no
you’re not good enough you can’t do it I
could say yes I can and I could stress
it now there I would also be stressing
it because it’s the only verb in the
sentence so let’s think of something
else maybe someone says Rachel you can’t
bake that there’s not time before we
need to leave the house you can’t do it
I would say yes yes I can bake it
there’s plenty of time can can so you
can stress it if you need to bring more
attention to that word like I just did
if we’re discussing can you or can’t you
and you want to bring attention to you
can you can then you don’t have to you
don’t have to reduce it but most of the
time in most of the cases it is gonna
make way more sense to reduce it it’s
gonna sound smoother and more natural so
it’s definitely worth understanding how
that works also because you’re gonna
hear it all the time and if you’re
expecting to hear can and all you’re
hearing is can then you might not pick
it up so when you know about it and you
go and you listen to as many examples of
it as you can then you’re gonna start to
hear it and notice it in conversation
and then your listening comprehension
will go up which of course is great
because we all want to be able to
converse comfortably in the
that we’re studying okay let’s keep
going with my family can you wave Gina
can you wave we reduce can when it’s a
helping verb that is not the main verb
in a sentence wave is the main verb most
of the time can is a helping verb can
can can you wave listen again can you
wave Gina can you wave Gina can you wave
Gina in this video I’m at a nature
reserve with my family okay can you wave
can can can can you wave so when in chat
is asking me about can’t and mustn’t so
mustn’t in American English is something
that is very rarely used if there is
100% no chance for someone to do it you
can still say can’t you can’t do that
it can’t be done you don’t have to say
mustn’t you mustn’t do that I just don’t
think that that is natural at all I
think if anyone used that word it would
sound a little bit odd at this point
it’s just not we use can’t we don’t use
mustn’t it sounds a little bit very very
formal and old-fashioned is what it
sounds like so go ahead and use can’t
it’s just gonna sound a little bit more
natural and normal in spoken American
English okay let’s go on we’re gonna
look at another example here from the
video can you see the Gators can you
hear I’ve reduced you again yeah with
the schwa I’ve also reduced can we do
this all the time when it’s a helping
verb and it’s almost always a helping
verb this means it’s not the main verb
in the sentence can you see the Gators
see was the main verb and can a helping
verb since the N is a syllabic consonant
it overtakes the vowel the schwa you
don’t need to worry about making it so
just okay this is awesome because
someone just said in the chat so
basically there is no vowel in this
duction that’s right the schwa when it’s
followed by n loses its own distinction
as a vowel so really try to make it
without a vowel just the K sound and the
end sound that will help you make it
more quickly that’s how we make it
that’s what’s natural can-can
so that’s exactly right what your ears
picked up on is exactly right okay let’s
keep going with that a K sound and an
end sound can-can very fast can you try
it can you can you listen again can you
see the Gators can you see the Gators
can you see the Gators there you go many
examples from my past ten years of
making videos on this reduction to get
even more examples I’m going to take you
to yulish okay so now in that video I go
to you glish but rather than doing that
now I’m gonna suggest that as soon as
this is over you go to you glish do you
know this website I’m gonna go ahead and
type it in chat see if I can type at the
same time as I talk so you glitch com go
there and you can type in the word can
and then you can filter it for us
American pronunciation and then you can
just skip through hundreds probably
thousands of videos where you’re hearing
that word in a sentence a lot of TED
Talks this kind of thing and so you can
really get used to hearing that can
reduction and I suggest when you listen
to one pause it you know maybe take this
lighter on the video player back listen
to it again listen to it a few times and
then try saying it yourself and really
focus on can can can can that reduction
try it by itself put it back into the
sentence this kind of thing it is a
great way to train yourself with real
English examples you know you don’t have
to go looking we have resources now like
you glish where you can do a search and
have examples of thousands of
Americans to work with to imitate in
chat someone says Gators are alligators
yes
Gators is short for alligators I grew up
in Gainesville there’s a university
there and their mascot is called
the Gators they are the Gators their
mascot is a gator
so yeah that’s probably why I shortened
it that way I’m used to saying Gators
Gators someone says I use you glitch
it’s helpful that’s awesome I it a lot
too when I’m doing video research and
then also when I want to give examples
to my students I’ll say go to you bush
check it out you can hear me do it but
if you can go hear a hundred people do
it that’s even better isn’t it it gives
you much more context also if there’s a
word that you use a lot in your work or
in what you study go there and type it
in and not only will you see so many
examples of Americans using that word
and hear all of here that pronunciation
over and over again but you’ll also
start to understand the grammar about
how that word is used and you know you
can write down phrases that you’re gonna
want to remember and use yourself so it
really is a wonderful resource to use ok
guys this has been such a pleasure to be
here with you and work on this topic I
really appreciate you guys putting in
your questions in the chat especially
the ones that are about the topic it
just helps me make this lesson more
complete so thank you so much for being
here and please share this with your
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they
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actually noticed once that one of my
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those fake accounts thinking it was me
and I had to say don’t follow that
That’s not me but thank you guys so much
for being here and I will see you again
at the next live stream you’re wonderful
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