Can YOU say these 15 English Tongue Twisters for Speaking & Pronunciation Training? +Free PDF & Quiz

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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mailing list and it will be sent directly to your  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  

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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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