Tongue twisters
Are tongue twisters common in your culture?
A friend sent me 22 English tongue-twisters that he recorded some years ago. Now I'm trying to learn some of them in order to improve my fluency, pronunciation, and intonation. My favourite one says:
"I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits"
I like the 'sh' sound!
On the other hand, I think that Italian tongue twisters are less common. I looked for some of them on the internet but I only found few. Do you know many tongue twisters in your own mother-tongue?
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In polish we have lots of tongue twisters, which make good use of all those hissing (a)fricatives, e.g.
W czasie suszy szosa sucha. (During draught a road is dry)
W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie. (In Szczebrzeszyn a beetle plays (lit. sounds) in reed)
Those are really hard to pronounce, even slowly, and in polish we have some words that are sometimes hard to pronounce even by natives, mainly because of fricatives.
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Giulia do you know "she sells seashells on the sea shore?" that is quite hard to say quickly.
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Tongue twisters
Are tongue twisters common in your culture?
A friend sent me 22 English tongue-twisters that he recorded some years ago. Now I'm trying to learn some of them in order to improve my fluency, pronunciation, and intonation. My favourite one says:
"I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits"
I like the 'sh' sound!
On the other hand, I think that Italian tongue twisters are less common. I looked for some of them on the internet but I only found a few. Do you know many tongue twisters in your own mother-tongue?
Giulia - What a great idea for pronunciation. Good luck with your English!
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compared with chinese,it is quit easy
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