Tongue twisters to improve your pronunciation
Tongue twisters to improve your pronunciation
Tongue twisters are phrases that are challenging to say out loud.
They are a great tool for improving fluency and pronunciation.
There are four types of tongue twisters: rapid alternation, alliteration, compound words, and rapid repetition.
Examples of tongue twisters:
1. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?
2. Gobbling gargoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.
3. Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
4. If you must cross a coarse cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
5. The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.
6. Rory the Warrior and Roger the Worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.
7. A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
8. He threw three free throws.
9. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
10. I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen.
Can you think of other tongue twisters? Share them in the comments.
Adapted from:
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/tongue-twisters/
Extract from the original article:
“As we all know, tongue twisters can be a real mouthful. These intentionally difficult phrases are challenging to say out loud (especially quickly) because your mouth and brain don’t always cooperate with each other!
Although many tongue twisters might not make sense and may in fact be quite silly, they are actually a great tool for improving one’s fluency and pronunciation skills.
Thanks to their alliteration and rhyming, tongue twisters have actually been helping people perfect their speech for a long time, particularly in speech therapy. For this reason, public speakers—politicians, actors, news anchors, and presenters—commonly use them as a warm-up before they speak in front of an audience or a camera. Just like with physical exercise, the more you practice voicing tongue twisters out loud, the better your pronunciation will become!
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