Tips:

• Pronounce the letter “a” as
  /æ/—like the vowel in the word “cat.”
• Stop-but-do-not-explode the letter “t”—/t̚ /—and release the air on the following syllabic “n”
  /n̩/, which forms the second syllable.
• Link the “n” into the final stressed syllable, which is pronounced like the name of the letter “a”—
  /e͜i/.