okay okay shut up the shutters and sheets in the shop that one always gets me tongue twisters these have been a part of my life since I was quite young they are a very common thing in British culture and American culture is something that we use when we're kids to kind of train our speech in English classes in school maybe we will be told to pronounce a tongue twister also in drama classes now the reason why I'm teaching you tongue twisters today is simply because they are a way of training your muscles giving you muscle
memory and teaching you how to pronounce things correctly in a bit more of an interesting way and they're also very easy if you can memorize just a few tongue twisters then you could wake up in the morning get your mouth working get all of your muscles remembering things for the day just by practicing one or two tongue twisters ten times and get faster and faster with every attempt it's their job they're amazing now if you don't know what a tongue twister is it's usually when we have lots of similar sounds sometimes minimal pairs in words
but it's not just minimal pairs it's also words which can make us trip up on the next word kind of pronounce the next word wrong maybe now I usually recommend to create some of your own if there are two sounds that you usually get confused between create some tongue twisters the first tongue twister is one which I'm very very familiar with it's one which I had to do when I was a child once again to warm up for things to to practice in English class and this one is the famous red lorry yellow lorry now
this one you don't want to say slowly you want to say as fast as you can as many times as you can red lorry yellow lorry red lorry yellow lorry red lorry yellow lorry this is good for people who have difficulty with pronouncing those a and la sounds okay now if you want even more of a challenge change the lorry to leather lots of people have problems with pronouncing the th sound where we put that tongue between the teeth red leather yellow leather red leather yellow leather so that's one which is a bit more of
a step up because it could change you with pronouncing the sound where we lift the tongue up the luck sound where we move the tongue up and down la for lorry and also the th sound tongue between teeth that was an easy one now let's get a little bit more difficult how can a clam cram in a clean cream can how can a clam cram in a clean cream can slightly more difficult once again we're dealing with these and lot sounds the two sounds which people get very confused with a lot of the time so
let's just take a look at a few of the words in here first as well clammed so look at my tongue it's moving from the top of the mouth down to the bottom for the LA sound clam clam just look at the movement clam how can a clam cram so look at my mouth for the air sound cram clam cram clam cram how can a clam cram these last two difficult words are very smiley because we have the e sound clean cream clean cream can how can a clam cram in a clean cream can next
one now this one's a bit of a long one I'm going to need my my trusty notebook to read this one else the thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday a lot of tongue between the teeth action going on there if you haven't seen my video about pronouncing the th sound now's the time to go and check that out if you're having problems with this this is all about putting that tongue between the teeth every single time you see that th 33 you thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday so for
those of you who have problems with getting your tongue in the right place and that really do focus on getting that th sound perfect if you mispronounce the th sound you pronounce it as dirty tree sometimes I hear people pronounce it as 33 or that voiced th sound as a dirt or of sometimes I hear that people are going to notice they're going to know you're a non-native speaker and they're going to recognize that you need some practice with your pronunciation never cheat with the th sound always make sure every single time you're getting your
tongue between your teeth and these tongue twisters are the perfect training to make sure you always get that right now finally this one this one's a little bit dirty so be careful that you pronounce this one correctly I slit a sheet a sheet I slit upon the slitted sheet I sit now if you haven't noticed already there's definitely one word which we could accidentally pronounce in this so it's a great way to train yourself again with the love sound slit once again la slit tongue touches the top of the mouth and then it drops down
la I slit a sheet we don't want to hear [ __ ] we want sheet I slit a sheet a sheet I slit upon a slitted sheet I sit I slit a sheet a sheet I slit upon the slitted sheet I sit that was close I could feel my mouth almost pronouncing the words so you really do have to be careful that you're pronouncing it correctly so that's just a few tongue twisters and like I said if you start your day or finish your day with a few of these they will train your muscles give
you that muscle memory you need to kind of pronounce things correctly and find the differences you need to notice what sounds you're pronouncing wrong and maybe the ones you need to compare them with and create your own when you're learning pronunciation you can't rely on it to give you everything and this is something I've been saying throughout my teaching career even with learning grammar anything if you want to practice and you want to remember things the best way you do actually remember and trust me on this one is when you create things yourself if you
create things yourself and you use them for study you will remember things more and let's say you're not very good at grammar or it doesn't really matter the reason why is because tongue twisters aren't supposed to make sense they're just created so that you can practice moving your mouth in the right way and pronouncing things correctly so start slow get faster create your own have fun and yeah if you want some really really advanced tongue twisters and lots of little tips tricks and techniques as a tongue twister tips tricks and techniques to improve your pronunciation
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