Hey there, I'm back once again to teach you English, you ready?
Today we're going to do a little bit more of pronunciation, always a fun thing, it's
And the first two we're going to do is very very easy word in English, three letters,
it's difficult to understand when people say it to you and when you are saying it to yourself.
Believe me, I've had many a mix up with these simple words.
The first one is this word can, okay, now this is the positive form of can, does anyone
know what the negative form of can is, it is can't, okay, if you have a grammar book,
you can take out your grammar book and it'll tell you that it is actually cannot, okay,
but honestly in real life we don't use this word a lot, unless we really really want to
tell someone directly, I cannot do that, as in you're giving someone an order, don't like
giving people orders, so we're going to stick with everyday usage of how we normally speak
in real life, okay, and so we're going to do with these two today, can and can't, just
try and pronounce them on your own, can and can't, it's pretty easy, you can differentiate
between the two, the thing that throws me and everyone else off is when we prefer to
ourselves, so we do this, we say I can, but when we want to say something negative, we
say I can't, now it would be easier if we said I cannot, cannot is two syllables, can't
is one, this is the trick, woohoo, pulling out magic tricks here, of how we pronounce
and use these words, I want you to think of I can as one complete word, we say it like
this, I can, to make it even easier for you to remember, I'm going to write it as one
word, I can, for example, I, I can cook, okay, if I was to really pronounce every word, you'd
hear it say, I can cook, but we never speak very slowly, especially on the street in real
life, I would say to my friend, I can cook, and it sounds like it's almost one word, we
string three together sounding like one, so if you can remember to put I can into I can,
and then, does anyone know what part of speech cook is, it starts with a V, it's a verb,
so when we make a simple sentence, we always need three things, I is the subject, this
answers the question, who, the other thing we need is the verb, in this sentence, verb
is cook, so if you've written this down, you need to write it like this, okay, I can cook,
anytime that I write something and I put these marks, these are called quotations, this is
how I'm going to teach you how to pronounce something, okay, one of my best friends is
a really, really great cook, I eat something and I melt, it's beautiful, sometimes when
I cook, not so good, so I can cook badly, sometimes, sometimes it's okay, badly tells
us how the noun is done, okay, this is our second or our third part of speech, this is
an adverb, you can remember this because it has the word verb in it, so we say the adverb
answers the question, how the verb is done, how the verb, can everyone see that, okay,
so we're going to do a little review, when we want to say something is positive, I can,
we put it all together, let's go through a few examples, I can cook, if I were a bird,
I would say, I can fly, okay, I'm not a bird, no, not a bird, definitely not a bird, maybe
I wish I was a bird sometimes, so because I'm not a bird, I need to express this in
the negative, to do this, we're going to say, I can't, okay, when we say I can't, we need
to have it very broken up, with this one, I can, it's one word, I can, I can cook, I
can dance, okay, when we have the negative form, we really need to emphasize that there
is a big break here, this is how people will be able to understand the difference between
something you can do and something you can't do, for example, I can't cook, okay, listen
to how I say this, I can't cook, even if I were to say it very quickly, I can't cook,
I really make a break, compared to when we do the positive, we say, I can cook, so try
it to yourself, and I want you to use the verb dance, the first one would be, I can
dance, okay, now maybe you just looked at me and said, Ronnie, you can't dance, then
I would have to say, I can't dance, second very important tip is if you want to use the
can't part of it, use body language and go, I can't dance, that would be a hundred percent
sure of how to get your point across that you can or can't do something, to check out
a quiz on this, please visit us at www.engvid.com and you can do it, bye-bye.