How to Pronounce N'T Contractions -- American English Pronunciation

[@gabriellasouzadocouto585]

This is the best for American English pronunciation channel. I am loving and you are helping me a lot to reduce my accent.

[@rachelsenglish]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing with your students! Best, Rachel

[@skyhawkmedia]

This is much needed, even for native English speakers. I have noticed that some speakers, particularly young people, say "dinnent" instead of "didn't," and similarly "shunnent" instead of "shouldn't," "cunnent" instead of "couldn't," and so on. Grates on me

[@rachelsenglish]

@Charles55661 Great! Thanks for spreading the word! Your trainer is probably producing a stop T and you're not hearing it because he/she produces it slightly differently than you're used to. If the vowel sound is clipped or short, that is an extra clue that the T is there as a stop.

One of the toughest sounds ever. Still can't do produce it properly. It gets me frustrated. But THANK YOU, Rachel, again for your wonderful work on pronunciation. You're the best English teacher ever!

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[@SERGUMUM]

Great video!. This one is really good. Love the side drawing to show the pronuntation mechanics, that helps a lot to mimic the sounds.

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[@rachelsenglish]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@danielmm9599]

i´m from Brazil and i need to say. The pronuciation is the hardest part for me. but this video help me a lot. Thank you very much!

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[@IngridRodriguez-vf7po]

TRULY GOOD EXPLANATION. Thanks for working so hard in order to help us

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@@rachelsenglish Morning Ms.Rachel. Have a great one with your beautiful family.

[@rachelsenglish]

@Ivlbg It's hard to say, I would have to hear you. As long as you are making a short, cut off sound with the stop T, you're probably doing fine! Rachel

[@lyllies1130]

Just came by from your other video of contractions, I really enjoyed watching the IPA on that video wished this would´ve have it too ... the nt sounds with tongue and soft palate was wonderful to learn

[@SrMrRicardo]

Genius, finally understood can/can't - this video is indeed essential for that. Thank you! :)

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[@curtisborton7875]

Thank you Rachel, my ESL class practiced their pronunciation with your video today! it was wonderful.

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Great teaching.

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[@truknayr23]

Thanks.... as usual... very useful... i sort of use this in my classes... i hope you don't mind.

[@maximinx]

Thanks so much. I have been waiting for this video!

[@byoungkwankim1899]

Thank you so much. Every time I pronounce 'Haven't' I found it is hard to pronounce. Your class really helps me!!

[@udinwidarso]

Thank you. I am learning English.

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Thanks Rachel, Again, very useful !

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[@rachelsenglish]

@oidualclaudi0 Good question, I hadn't thought of that. But yes, I would say the sound is the same.

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This is great!

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very perfect

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@Farzad Thanks!

[@alinn2630]

thank you

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You're welcome again Ali!

[@carlosmendoza6131]

that's very helpful now my pronunciation is correct thank you very much

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You're welcome Carlos!

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Thanks a lot.. You just cleared the doubt I had for long...

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Thank you so much i learned a lot of things i didn't when i was in my school

[@michaelavi2928]

thank you so much today I have learned something new to improve my english.

Thanks

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I like you so much your pronunciation is very correct and you are good teacher

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks Abid! It means a lot to know that my students are benefiting. Thanks for writing to me :)

[@rachelsenglish]

Hi Rafael, I don't have any DVDs. But I do have some audio training material on my website as part of a Premium membership if you want more to work with.

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[@Mt1200z]

They never taught me this at school. Thanks.

[@rachelsenglish]

My pleasure Rodolfo!

[@bilanalawi814]

Thank you ,I understand more words of reduction pronounced , I didn't hear before.

[@rachelsenglish]

@samurai50062 Yes, I think I would still spell it 'wouldn't have' but it would be pronounced ['wʊ də nəv]

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Thank you for helpingto understand more through watching movies.

[@rachelsenglish]

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Teacher you are gorgeous.

[@montyollie]

I'm loving your videos! You could touch on the regional variance of the pronunciation "cuh-INT" for "couldn't" for example (I know I'm not spelling that correctly) but how a lot of young people stress an "INT" and the end of words with "n't"

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I loved the intro Hahahaha

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@Ivlbg That's why all my videos are free for all. Enjoy!

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very good teaching I really tried to keep out of some more on these type of videos but here I am convinced that's it is worth the while thanks soon I'll share, after seeing more and resisting less ho!ho!

[@PedroSantos-mk3pm]

Hi, Rachel. You´re great. Could you, please...make a list of final T words pronounciation? Pedro Paulo

[@rachelsenglish]

In my teaching experience, this is not a problem. You're probably doing it fine. More of a problem is when people don't raise it for certain vowel sounds.

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[@andreweden9405]

I am so glad to have found your channel! I am not a professional orthoepist, but I am a professional, classically trained musician, so I pick up on minutiae in people's pronunciation of words that would probably just go unnoticed by other people. What I want to ask you about has to do with the American English "nt" contractions, specifically in the words couldn't, didn't, shouldn't and wouldn't. However, I want to back up by one letter, and ask you about the letter D in those words(in the case "didn't", I'm only asking about the second D). Here's where I might not be able to use the correct terminology, so I hope you're able to know what I'm talking about... Have you noticed a generational difference in the way these words are pronounced by native English speakers? What I mean is that people under a certain age(it seems to be millennials and younger) pronounce these words differently. They pronounce it in such a way that the D is not just a nasal consonant, but rather, a fully articulated D. For example: when they say the word "didn't", they fully articulate the second D exactly as they do the first D, so it comes out something like "diddint". Do you know what I'm talking about? Am I crazy, and just hearing things?!?!😃

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[@fransergioferreira5863]

*Rachel* I have a question the word *Wouldn't* Does any have *Flapping (d)* ?

[@ajaymehta1059]

Hello Rachel..could you please tell me how to say ..I didn't ....is the secound d ( didn't ) sound soften ? ..please help me with this

[@magneticlanguagesofudon5499]

I hadn't realized how I spoke English, it's no wonder that many of my students don't understand me :) I will show your video to them, and see how many want to quit hehe :)

[@kenmatos]

Hello from Brazil, Rachel. Thank you for the wonderful videos. I'd like to know where you are from originally and if you think you have a regional accent.

[@ernestodeorozco]

You are a great teacher, thank you. (and you have beautiful eyes :) )

[@USTCZZG]

Great video. I find it really difficult to pronounce "have" after the auxiliary verbs, like "wouldn't have", " could have", etc.. Can you make a video to explain that?

[@naveenroshan4530]

Hi Rachel can u please make a vedio on how to pronounce aren't

[@easyenglish5566]

so cute! when you make the "N" nasal sound! ....

[@konjilljotham]

Creepy

[@isaaccarrero5232]

Great

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks Isaac!

[@rachelsenglish]

@banerplayboy You don't need to say the T twice.

[@ginas1s551]

omg! It's so hard to pronounce "didn't" ,sometimes I listen songs and I'm not notice when the singer sings "didn't" because it sounds is so weird. :(

[@O_jack]

It'll be natural one day, just keep on!

[@molamola5260]

@@O_jack no it isnt because you americans dont know how to pronounce the letter T

[@O_jack]

@@molamola5260 , I'm not American 😄

[@Reachland02]

Just pronounce it diden

[@luqmanalif2758]

Gotye somebody u used to know has didnt in the lyrics

[@yigitcan5479]

What about the words like wanted to or granted ? Should we omit the t and pronounce like waned , graned?

[@兼田義之]

That makes sense!

[@janeliu1725]

I feel like Stop D is bit hard as to make a stop sound in the throat, can I make it the same as Stop T? Or can I make a light release of the D sound instead? Example word: "didn't" /ˈdɪd|.nt|/.

[@rachelsenglish]

Hi! With practice this will get easier! However, of the two options you suggest, making a mini-release of the D consonant would be preferable. You don't want to make it the same as the Stop T - that could become confusing!

[@liliverna7288]

is it bad if i say shouldn't or couldn't with a flap t, sometimes i listened them like that

[@djawedcherifi1429]

So is it an actual glottal stop, or just partly?

[@astuces.tech2.0]

Hello rachel your lesson is wonderful . can you teach us phrasal verbs ?

[@carlosbernal7905]

I was hoping that can / can't was just another example of this n't sound. It would make perfect sense.

[@davidmutita4488]

Hi teacher I'm David I'm from Congo, this is a good secret because sometimes I didn't understand my boss.

[@liftkit1672]

Is this also true when a word ends in "nt" like "front" and "want"?

[@rachelsenglish]

Yes! :)

[@rachelsenglish]

@Ivlbg I do teach through skype. Unfortunately there is a waiting list at the moment, but if you wanted to be put on a waiting list, I'd be happy to do that . See the 1-on-1 link on my website for details.

[@eduardarmenta3505]

I've a question. must the N be pronounced before the stop T? I mean the phonetic transcription of shouldn't is /ʃʊdntǀ/ the N sound remains before the stop T is that correct?

[@MasterJuan-os3os]

Perfecto!

[@braulioherrada659]

It’s been a quite interesting class, in other hand, could you please let me know the correct pronunciation about this sentence: “I wouldn’t have been “ with contractions? Appreciate it your help

[@oidualclaudi0]

Thank you so much for this video, it's really helpful. Does this rule apply also on words like "student"?