Listening and Speaking Practice: CAN and CAN'T
Improve your English listening and speaking skills in this lesson where we solve the mystery of hearing the difference between CAN and CAN’T!
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Key Takeaways:
1) These two words can be very hard to distinguish because the contain the same sounds except for the final T. Unfortunately, most native speakers will not pronounce a full, True T in CAN'T so you need to listen for the NT sound.
2) Most of the time the word CAN will reduce to "kin" /kǝn/ within a sentence.
3) Listening to these two words in stressed and unstressed contexts can really help in training your ears to hear these subtle differences.
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