Understanding the American accent: secret #1 / Comprender el acento americano: secreto #1

This video will help adults studying English understand why several letters in the American accent appear and disappear - this video will help your oral comprehension. The text to this video can be viewed/downloaded here: http://www.competence.es/n%20reduction%20PDF.html

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¿Porque algunas letras aparecen y desaparecen en el acento americano? Este vídeo le ayudará en la comprensión oral del inglés americano.

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[farfanugenmaster]

don't = doan

didn't = dih

can't = can

shouldn't = shoon

isn't = isn

weren't = wern

this video = bullshit

[carlay31]

DONT LISTEN TO HIM I AM AMERICAN AND WHAT HE IS SAYING IS WRONGGG!!!

[wabawoba]

Please can people who know nothing about linguistics and phonology please refrain from commenting, it makes you look ignorant. The man in the video is absolutely correct and it's a phenomenon known as the "unreleased plosive".

[steevmac]

Actually, he is absolutely correct... Most American and English people do not say can'T, they say can'? where the ? symbol is a glottal stop or an unreleased "t".

It is one of the KEY features that enables people to tell whether you are a native English speaker or not and the phenomenon is taught in phonology lectures at universities...

Contrary to what people are saying, it does not make "can't" sound like "can"... and if you do fully release the "t" it sounds foreign or emphatic.

[killerlop2000]

@carlay31 so could you help me about my speaking?

I need to practice with a native in English by Skype or something like that

I hope your answer

[Neumie7]

why you talkin so slow, bra? and you spelled syllable wrong

[SLfalslev]

If you say can't as can in Utah, it TOTALLY changes the meaning. I'm sorry but, even in UTAH where we almost never pronounce out T's we STILL say it in all your examples. And also (I think he might be doing this so people understand) nobody talks that slow. In fact most people talk pretty fast. No offense to anyone, but this video isn't correct.

[mscynergie]

This guy is from Mars. I do not know any American that talks that way.

[mollielie]

This is so wrong, it's hilarious.

[blahk04]

Who the hell pronounces can't as can. lol. wtf.

[sppammm]

This is a very simplistic analysis of the pronunciation of /t/ before or after /n/ in stressed vs. unstressed syllables. It probably confuses the heck out of  people learning English as a second language; they would oversimplify the rule and end up mispronouncing words thinking they're using "the rules" of American English.

[PIANOPHUNGUY]

He is correct to an extent. Sometimes when people say, " can't" , I cannot hear the "t". I have to ask, "Is that can't with a "t"? When speaking I try to enunciate the final t's, so there is no misunderstanding. Maybe it is better to avoid confusion and say," do not, did not, should not etc."