Can vs Can’t: American English Pronunciation Trick You Need to Know | Shadowing Practice

Hey everyone, and welcome back to another shadowing practice. For those of you who don't know me, I'm Claire, a native speaker from the United States and an online English teacher. So, as I am from the United States, I will of course be speaking with an American English accent. So, if you do want to

improve your speaking in American English, this will be appropriate for you. But also, if you just want to improve your fluency overall through listening and building vocabulary, this will also be a great practice for you. I have many more shadowing practices just like this over on my channel. You can check out my shadowing practice

playlist. In this video, I'm going to specifically cover the difference between can and can't in American English because a lot of non-native speakers find it not only difficult to pronounce these words themselves, but to hear the difference when they are listening to native speakers. So, I have a quick tip for that that's going to

help with both of those situations. And I'm going to point out some other pairs of words that are easily mispronounced or difficult to hear the difference between them so that you can practice on it and you can practice your listening as well. All right, let's go ahead and get started. English made easy with

Claire. Okay, so as always, first I want you to listen to me and then repeat and then you will shadow it. So, then you will say it at the same time as me, matching my rhythm and inflection and pronunciation. Today, I have to finish a project for work. Your turn. So, for this sentence, notice the

pronunciation of have to. Okay, not have to. I have to finish, but I have to finish. When we have have to to mean the same thing as need, I need to finish this, we pronounce this pair of words have to. So, listen again. Today, I have to finish a project for work.