The MOST Confusing English Mistake - Did you say CAN, CAN'T or ???? (+ Free PDF & Quiz)
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0:00 Introduction
2:32 Can vs Can't - British English
06:09 Can vs Can't - American English
7:28 Confusing Numbers - TY vs TEEN
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This is one of the most confusing mistakes! This pronunciation and listen lesson (with quiz!) teaches the differences so you can AVOID future embarrassment! 📝 *GET THE FREE LESSON PDF* _here_ 👉🏼 bit.ly/CanCantPDF
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To avoid confusion, release all the letters of can't: cannot. Problem solved.
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Contraction is what we're talking here
@@ma.corazonibardaloza7814 yes ma'am
@@ma.corazonibardaloza7814 or use the Scots form " canny" for can't.
This is what my English teacher does😂😊
As an American who speaks with a Northern California/Western US accent, sometimes I have to repeat myself when saying "can't" because it does sound so similar to "can". Once you mentioned the similarity it made me think of how many times I've repeated myself when someone misunderstood.
That's why I like to say "I can not" for a better understanding especially on the phone. Easy to avoid misunderstandings
I am puzzled why the native speakers do not just use "cannot", "does not" etc. Adding a "not" rather than using "n't" is definitely a good investment when we can save a lot of trouble later.
@@eugenec7130 I’m a native speaker and “cannot” and “does not” is very unnatural and it doesn’t feel right. It is also faster and flows better.
@@eugenec7130 Also, it is hard to confuse the 2 for native speakers, unless you’re speaking very fast, or you’re on the phone etc.
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The long forms sound really unnatural in informal situations though. They're at least a bit unusual in formal meeting too. But, they're a lot more common when writing.
btw cannot sound is /'kæn,not/
As a non-native speaker I learnt to say "cannot" instead of "can't" very quickly when I came to live to the UK 😂. Another useful examples words learnt very quickly were "that place with sand most of the time but simetimes with small stones next to the sea when you typically go to have a tan" instead of "beach" and "square piece of paper, usually white, where I can write something down" instead of "sheet".
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I thought she’ll at least show us what her cun’t is like when talking. Confused
Now seriously, I have no idea how I got here but she’s a lovely girl.
Sometimes it is confusing when we misheard between 'can' and 'can't', I would use 'can' and 'cannot' for preventing any confusions.
Cannot has a slight different connotation than can't.
@@TheZenytram No It's not
What I appreciate about this channel is while describing the subtle differences to listen for, you eloquently hint to native speakers how to speak clearly with no extra effort. I’m Australian and I love the many accents that people have.
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1) Sixty
2) Seventeen
3) Seventeen
4) Eighteen, then Eighty...?
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Yes. She did say 18 and 80
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Does anyone notice? she is a totally perfect Phoebe Buffay when she's doing the American accent.
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Just a few days ago my friend asked me how to distinguish "can" and "can't" (we're both not native speakers). I explained to her what I know myself and today sent her the link on this video. Thank you, Lucy! That was very informative
Love your videos Lucy! The way you teach is so fresh and simple. Keep going, love from Argentina.
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Sixty people came to the game last night.
I got my dog when I was seventeen.
I've been with my husband for seventeen years.
I'm only having eighteen people at the wedding.
I'm only having eighty people at the wedding.
You changed the number in the last sentence when you repeated it.
No I didn’t. This is so stupid
@@BlissOn47 You did.
Yees! Hahaha she changed it!
ah, great, I thought I misheard it, so she indeed changed the number of the people attending when she repeated the sentence.
My accent is British , and those videos always empress me of how you teach it , we do miss alot while talking and won't notice those things ....
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Your American accent is excellent! I would love to hear you read a paragraph or two using your American accent. Could be fun! 😃
Thank you so so much Lucy, if you remember as if you saw that previously, you might not I think, once I commented on your one of the previous videos, that I'm utterly confused with the words can and can't while I watch any Hollywood movie. It's been so pleasure to watch this video, that you've cleared my confusion upto some extent about these two rhyming words. Thanks a lot!
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1,Sixty
2,Seventeen
3,Seventeen
4,Eighteen.
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With “I can try” and “I can’t try” in American English… I think most of us would use a weak form of can if it’s affirmative and a strong form if it’s negative. That helps with hearing the difference
"I can try" - stressed try
"I can't try" - stressed can't
So in British English, "I can(weak) do what I can(strong)" means "I can do what I can", while in American English, "I can(weak) do what I can(strong)" means "I can do what I can't". LOL
@@miantiaosi3366 “can’t” is more nasally and a little shorter than strong “can”
@@difficult1003 Exactly.
@@neitan6891 If you're from the Upper Midwest or Northeast its more nasally. Other parts of the country not so much.
Also, I love some British dialects when they say numbers like (80) ate-ee and (90) nighnt-ee.
Thankyou SO MUCH for making us understand the difference between them & also the pronunciation! 😊💜
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Visiting a convent in Ireland my brother in law presented himself as being from Portugal, and the nun was surprised "Oh Portugal beautiful country" and my brother in law promptly responded, "Yes yes lots of Beaches", his pronunciation wasn't the best because the nun was chocked and silent...
Thank you so much for your’s today lesson. Good to hear that even native speaker have troubles with numbers like thirteen / thirty, sixteen / sixty etc. 🙂 Hugs from Austria
Hey Lucy, great video as always! Another very tricky example would be ‘better, butter and batter’ (especially the latter!). Most of the time context surely helps, but it’s still not so easy to spot the difference sometimes. Fortunately “batter” is not used that frequently
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Very nice lesson, Lucy. I like listening to a native speaker. You can give us culture details in the language that no native teachers may ignore. Watching your videos and learning from you is my new hobbie on youtube. Thank you very much. Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1) Sixty people came to the game last night.
2) I've got my dog when I was seventeen.
3) I've been with my husband for seventeen years.
4) I'm only having eighty people at the wedding.
I really appreciate your lessons, thank you very much for what you're doing
I’ve been being confused by “can” and “can’t “ in US English since I was born. You explained the difference very well, but I can’t distinguish still.
Yes, can't agree more.
Sound of "Can't" in US is really difficult for me to catch, who is not a native English speaker. Even when Lucy spoke it in US accent, i couldn't hear the difference.
In “can” we pronounce the n sound. It usually sounds like “Kin” in fast speech. However in “can’t” we pronounce it like “Kaent” and we use a glottal stop
Don't worry too much. I'm a native speaker and its an easy mistake if the person isn't speaking very clearly. It's comon to ask the speaker "did you just say can or can't/cannot".
As a native Am speaker, I perceive it as different at the end of the word. "Can" ends with an "n" sound that can be drawn out indefinitely if you like, since "n" is a voiced consonant (uses the vocal cords in the throat): cannnnnnnn. However, "can't" must end with a very abrupt stoppage for the "t" (even though the "t" is often not released/pronounced), since "t" is not a voiced consonant.
I'm sorry but is "been being" correct??
PS: I'm brazilian lol
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I'm a native speaker of English but I always find myself listening to your videos because they're so amusing and useful.
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I love hearing Lucy speak with an American accent! CAN we get more of that please?
Just love your lessons and your accent. I ALWAYS share your videos with my students at school
While I said "I can't" many time, I recorded my voice and the Google voice typing heard "icon, I caught".
I have gotten so mad with voice command that I prefer typing.
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Very helpful! Thanks for the demonstration!
Thank you Lucy, it's a really helpful video, especially for the -ty and -teen.
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In the Japanese language there's a phenomenon called pitch accent. It's not the same as the stress accent in the European languages, although learning it has helped me recognize subtle differences between -ty and -teen words, the very same that Lucy mentioned in the video (about stress being put on the first syllable in the -ty words). I'm glad I could verify this knowledge 😊 great video as always, Lucy, love from Poland!
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I usually use "can" in US accent and "can't" in british accent just to make it easier to understand since the environment mostly use american accent here :))
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Thank you, Lucy! This video literally changed my life!
In what sense?
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She has already
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Unequivocally no
Thank you for your wonderful lessons, Lucy! I'm an Argentine teacher of English as a foreign language and I teach my students this tongue twister to practice the difference between CAN and CAN'T: If a can-opener can't open a can it can't be a can-opener, can it? Greetings from Buenos Aires.
I guess when an American says this tongue twister, it will sound like "If a can-opener can open a can it can be a can-opener, can it?", which makes not much difference from the original sentence!
I never get bored with your videos whatever the length of the video.
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Absolutely brilliant thank you so much Lucy!
You possibly just spoiled my fun, I can not pretend that i'm not doing it on purpouse anymore.
I'm an English teacher and so I watch a lot of other teachers for ideas, so thank you. I do however have to say that I spat out my drink when you said, "rub it out" I know what you meant but just FYI in US English it means something very different. Its funny and kinda fits with this lesson of miscommunication.
Hi mark ... Is it something tendencious as in : th-cam.com/video/VUvtlmlBbDg/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=exDrBob1 ???
Sorry I'm french, and I'm not sure I really got it
Ah! This is very useful. Thanks for the explanation, Lucy.
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Mam, please keep this background permanent. I love it, I don't want the black or white one, this is PERFECT.
I often change my sentence in order to be able of using "cannot" instead of "can't" lmao
That might clear up confusion haha. I recommend that you learn how to pronounce “can’t” though because it sounds much more natural
By the Boudicca, looking on you and listening to your speech is so much satisfying.
I’m a native American English speaker and your American accent was spot on! I find this topic fascinating!!
My Chinese students say "can't" with the uh sound and it's just so hard for them to unlearn it. I'll show them this video. Thank you.
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To be honest, natives would never get them mixed up, because it's obvious based on context what is meant, even if you say can't like cunt.
0:25 Funny story ! I actually faced a lot of problem when I moved to Sussex, had a hard time understanding what those people said because of the accent. I didn't know what the 'c' word meant and my employer was a short-tempered man, always grumpy he cussed me I thought he must've said "can't" lol and everyone was shocked by the fact that I was so unbothered by it whereas in reality I didn't know he used a swear word lol. Embarrassing 😬
OMG what a horrible man I am so sorry you had that experience but how amazing that you didn't react :'D
"Ignorance is bliss." 😁
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If you combine the pronunciations of “can” and “can’t” you sound like a typical Australian
But how is this possible?))
You can't just say half of t. How can you combine them?
Maybe switch the vowels... I believe that is what he meant.
How did this make sense???
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The background is absolutely calming and relaxing
It sounds like to me that in AE with “can” the stress is put on one’s ability to do something, whilst with “can’t” the emphasis is on the action one is not able to perform.
For example, I can (long) do it vs I can’t (short) do it…. Sort of…
To me, the vowel in the AE version of "can't" is actually not shorter than the vowel in "can".
I always have the other speaker asking me is it "ninety or nineteen"
Even I refer to the "90's or 19's"
Thank you Lucy for this video. 🤩
How can anybody mix up "nine" and "nineteen"?
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Very good useful video , thanks Lucy .
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Love the background and how you look! Also wanted to tell how differently you sound with American accent, just wow, how the voice changes. It's really interesting to hear
What I usually do when people couldnt get when I say "sixty" or "sixteen", I'll just go with "six zero" or "one six" 😂
Yup, that's more common
Distinguishing between “can” and “can’t” is so tricky I will say “cannot”; likewise with numbers I’ll spell them out, for example “I need 14 cakes, one four, cakes”.
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Love this video, as an Indonesian, I found it really hard to differ can/can't while watching hollywood movie 😁
Thanks so much Lucy for uploading a lesson on this topic. Lots of love 😍 from india 💖❣️🇮🇳🇮🇳
Lucy, I need to tell you that "Last" is harder to get "First" ;)
Haha
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I’m pretty sure if people became more mature then there would be no confusion in things like this because it all depends on the context of the sentence. It’s only in the first case though. The second one needs stress correction obviously.
True. A few years ago, a young Dutch girl had a mortal accident while puenting. The Spanish monitor told her "You can't jump", but she understood "You can jump"; she did when the harness had not been secured yet, and plummet to her death from a height of 75 meters. It may sound a funny mistake most of the time, but in that case it was not.
And that's why the English language should never be used in important situations. It's just broken. Embrace Latin!
@@davidp.7620 i didn't know that cannot was a latin word :/ (cause if you say cannnot more than can't, you will never misunderstand it)
@@davidp.7620 People should just use thier native language in these kind of situations.
@@KillerofWestoids That wasn't an option in that case
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Why Mick Jagger didn’t sing “SATISFACTION” in a British way?
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Lucy made me speak "TWENTEEN" 😂and then I had to laugh at myself.
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I've been thinking about this problem so may years now, this video is somewhat life-changing! :D
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