Saturday, May 14, 2011

Tongue Twisters

Phonetics and pronunciation are usually a big deal when learning a second language. 
Different languages have different letter-sound correlation... and some sounds simply do not exist in other languages, like french /Ø/ (adieu), to worsen things!
Well, tongue twisters are a great tool to work on that! They can be very helpful getting used to specific sounds and establishing differences between them. As palindromes, they appear in every language as wordgames.
Taking the suggestion of my dearest colleague Evandro, here's a list of some nice tongue twisters:


One-one was a race horse.
Two-two was one too.
One-one won one race.
Two-two won one too.


I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
(to work on the difference between /s/ and /sh/)


Sheena leads, Sheila needs.


Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle.


She sees cheese.
(to work on the difference between /sh/ and /ch/)

And here are some links to a bunch of them!


Have fun
and take care!

1 comment:

  1. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
    If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
    How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

    A classic!

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