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Speaker 1: Even though I have my own business, I don't like

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doing bookkeeping. I use some software to help me with that,

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but I haven't had any real training in anything like accounting. Actually,

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I don't understand that stuff too much. Don't or haven't

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let's discuss.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from

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New York City, and here's your English teacher, Michael.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael

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here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast, Episode seven ninety nine.

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Is it don't or haven't? Did you notice what I

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did at the beginning of this episode? In some sentence

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I used don't and in others I used haven't. A

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lot of English learners get stuck deciding whether to use

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don't or haven't, so I thought I would take some

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time today to look at these two helping verbs. Some

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teachers also call them auxiliary verbs. Let's dive in. First

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of all, don't is a contraction of do not, and

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doesn't is a contraction of does not. We use don't

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or doesn't followed by a base verb in the simple

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present tense that means you can use don't or doesn't

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when you talk about general truths or facts, habits or routines,

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and states. Let's look at each of these. I don't

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like raisins. That's something which is always true. My sister

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doesn't speak Spanish. That's a fact about her. And here's

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one more. Water doesn't freeze at ten degrees right, that's

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a scientific fact. Like facts, states are unchanging situations like

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I don't know your cousin from Paris. What's he like?

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Not Knowing something or even knowing something is a state,

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not an action we use. Don't or doesn't with a state.

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Jack lives in Brooklyn, so he doesn't own a car.

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He doesn't own a car. Possession is also a state. Okay,

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so we've covered general truths, facts and states. Now let's

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look at some examples of habits and routines. My buddy

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ed joined the gym a few months ago, but he

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doesn't go very often. That's his habit, not going to

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the gym. By the way, it's a pretty common thing

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here for people to sign up for the gym but

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then not go, even though they pay each month. In

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these situations, you may hear a conversation something like this, Hey,

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how often do you go to the gym? Oh, not often.

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Just my wallet goes to the gym. Yeah, my wallet

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goes to the gym. Crazy, right, All right, let's get

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back to the topic. I don't have classes on Sundays.

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That's my regular habit. So that's don't and doesn't. We

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use those words to talk about general truths and facts,

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states and regular habit and speaking of habits, here's a

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Now's your time. Let's move on to how we use

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haven't or hasn't. Haven't is a contraction of have not,

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and hasn't is a contraction of has not. We use

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haven't or hasn't in the present perfect tense in the

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following ways, actions that started in the past and continue

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up to now, unfinished actions, and life experiences or lack

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of life experiences. Let's look at each category. I have

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seen my coworker today. She left the office before I arrived,

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and I still haven't seen her. This action of not

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seeing her started this morning and continues up to now.

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It's already three pm, and Tommy hasn't eaten anything all day.

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This means from the start of the day until now,

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he hasn't eaten anything. We also use haven't when we

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talk about unfinished actions, like I haven't finished my homework yet.

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I mean I started it an hour ago, but it's

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not done. Katie started cleaning the house a few hours ago,

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but she hasn't cleaned the kitchen yet. That task is

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not complete. Another place we use haven't or hasn't is

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when we talk about life excits experiences. Well, actually, lack

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of experiences like Jenny told me that she hasn't ever

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eaten sushi. I was surprised to hear that, And even

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though she's traveled all over Asia, her and her husband

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haven't visited Japan. To sum up, when you're talking about

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a habit fact or general truth, use don't or doesn't.

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When you're talking about an unfinished action or lack of experience,

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use haven't or hasn't. Keep in mind, the best way

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to remember English like this in any other word or

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phrase in English is to take that word or phrase,

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write it in a sentence that's true for you or

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true in your world, and then memorize your sentences. Did

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