Can YOU say these 15 English Tongue Twisters for Speaking Pronunciation Training
hello everyone and welcome back to english with
lucy today i am going to train your pronunciation
we’re going to be going through some tongue
twisters together tongue twisters are sentences
or rhymes that are really hard to say they’re
very useful for letters of english because they
often involve repeating difficult sounds over and
over again or two similar or conflicting sounds
over and over again as always i have the free
pdf that goes along with this lesson it has
all of the tongue twisters and some extra
bonus ones that you can use to practice with
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inbox when i was young when i was a child a little
girl i used to really struggle with certain
elements of speech and there was one big reason
my tongue i had and i do have a tongue that is
much larger than average i will swallow my pride
and show you my problem my big problem but first
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right let’s get started with the tongue twisters
i used to really struggle with the s sound i
still do struggle a little bit and the reason
why is i have a very big tongue that especially
when i was very small was too big for my mouth
i can also do some tricks anyway i think we i
think we digressed slightly the point of that
i was to explain that when i was younger i did
used to really really struggle with the s sounds
they used to come out like instead i would call
myself luthi instead of lucy we call this a lisp
which is an incredibly cruel word because it has
the s sound in it so if i used to tell people
what i had i i said that i had a lip now i still
have a tiny bit of a lisp and i’m absolutely fine
with it in fact my first boyfriend told me that
he thought it was cute so after he said that i
felt really good about it but i did go through
times of feeling insecure and i used to train
myself to kind of push my tongue further back into
my mouth these tongue twisters that i have today
are difficult sentences involving these difficult
sounds that you can repeat over and over again
they will be a struggle i promise and by repeating
them and getting your tongue used to being
in certain positions and your mouth used to being
in certain shapes you will eventually become more
accustomed to producing these sounds correctly it
is possible to a certain extent i did it myself
with my lisp i have got 15 pronunciation tongue
twisters for you they focus on different sounds
we’re going to start with some consonants that are
commonly mispronounced misproduced by students and
then we’ll move on to some vowel sounds as well
let’s start with tongue twisters focusing on the s
sound and the shh sound as well okay let’s
start with this one it was very popular when
i was younger i think it’s quite a famous one
i’m going to give you some time to try and say
it aloud for yourself just to practice your
reading and pronunciation so please go ahead
okay it should be she sells seashells
by the seashore now if you say it over and
over again it gets more and more difficult
she sells seashells by the seashore she
sells seashells by the seashore she sells
seashells by the seashore hey you wait till i
get onto the uh and all ones they really make
me struggle let’s do another one with this set of
phonemes try this one i’ll give you a few seconds
it should be she thinks she’ll see
a seal she thinks she’ll see a seal
she thinks she’ll see a seal she thinks she’ll
see a seal so those are two really nice ones
for practicing this and shh sounds let’s
move on to tongue twisters using the er and
sound speakers of asian languages tend to find
these two sounds quite difficult for speakers
of some languages this will be so easy but for
speakers of asian languages in particular it can
be a real challenge try saying this one three
times okay i’ll give you some time to do it
okay it should be red lorry yellow lorry red
lorry yellow lorry red lorry yellow lorry
oh i struggled at the end red lorry yellow
lorry red lorry yellow lorry red l’oreal
it’s so hard what about this one try saying this
one three times i’ll give you some time go ahead
okay it should be truly rural truly rural
truly rural truly rural truly rural number five
say this one three times to practice
your uh and all sounds go ahead
okay red blood bad blood red blood bad blood
red blood bad blood red blood bad blood
red blood bad blood red blood blood blood oh
i said blood blood hard okay now i have three
that focus on the b and v sounds and these are
usually very difficult for speakers of spanish
but they’re still difficult for everyone else
including me so let’s try this first one go ahead
ready veil the bed with the bed valance veil
the bed with the bed valance veil the bed
with the bed balance if i said that enough
times i would struggle what about this one
the view of the valley is very beautiful
the view of the valley is very beautiful
the view of the valley is very beautiful
that was a nice one that wasn’t so hard
this one however is hard give this one a go
betty loves the velvet vest best vetti vettie
i messed up already betty loves the velvet vet
best best oh i’m struggling vetti vetti his cute
name betty betty loves the velvet vest best vetti
what is my problem see they’re very difficult i’ve
picked them really well this last one isn’t with
these are produced in the same way
has voice and is unvoiced give it a go
77 benevolent elephants 77 benelephant elephants i
already messed it up 77 benevolent evolence ah 77
benevolent elephants 77 benevolent elephants hard
if you’re struggling with your and sounds that’s a
really good one okay last we will look at the f
and sounds i’ve just got one for you but it’s a
toughy it is a very tough one so i’m going to give
you a bit of time to try it before i do it for you
okay fuzzy wuzzy was a bear fuzzy wuzzy had
no hair fuzzy wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy was he
fuzzy was he was a bear fuzzy wuzzy had no
hair fuzzy wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy was he
so at the end we say was he instead of was he and
finally we have a couple that focus on the f and
the sounds i know a lot of students struggle
with these sounds again they are produced
in the same way but one has
voice and one has no voice
i’ll let you have a go first be my guest
okay now i shall try i’m going to have to read
this one because it’s a bit complex the 33 thieves
thought that they thrilled the throne throughout
thursday oh it’s the f and er sound that i
personally find difficult throughout throughout
the 33 thieves thought that they thrilled the
throne throughout thursday the 33 thieves thought
that they thrilled the throne throughout thursday
with this last one we’re looking at
and you will often hear people saying
free instead of three or fanx instead of
thanks it’s easy to get these sounds confused
and this also forms a part of regional dialects
an example being cockney thanks have a go at this
okay now it’s my turn through three
cheese trees three free fleas flew
while these fleas flew freezy breeze blew
freezy breeze made these three trees freeze
freezy trees made these trees cheese freeze that’s
what made these three free fleas sneeze nailed it
nailed it means did it perfectly but we often use
it in a sarcastic way so if something doesn’t go
to plan and it’s obvious that it didn’t you can
say nailed it okay we’re done with consonants for
now let’s focus on some similar vowel sounds
the first one focuses on ah and uh as in dark
okay how much wood would a wood chuck
chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood
i love that one how much wood would chuck chuck
give a woodchuck could chuck wood did i say that
right how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a
woodchuck could chuck wood this next one focuses
on the e and e sounds and again a lot of my
students struggle with this many languages
only have the e sound they don’t have that short
e sound it’s important to differentiate between
these two sounds because if you look at the
words beach and sheet if you were to say them
with the short if sound they would both be rude
words i’ll let you try this one first go ahead
okay i slit a sheet a sheet i slit upon a slitted
sheet i sit i slit a sheet a sheet i slit upon a
slitted sheet i sit finally the last one this
focuses on the oi sound oy it’s a diphthong
please take your turn before me
okay i’ll have a go any noise annoys an
oyster but a noisy noise annoys an oyster most
any noise annoys an oyster but a noisy noise
annoys a noise to most what a ridiculous
sentence ah i absolutely loved this tongue
twister lesson i hope you enjoyed it too
i’ve got all of these tongue twisters written
down on that free pdf you can download that
and i have included some bonus ones for you
to try click on the link in the description
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