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!

http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm

http://www.speak-read-write.com/tonguetwister.html

Have fun

and take care!

Palindromes

Was it a rat I saw?

It was January 2nd, 2010, I met Bob and Anna, we had a pop sickle. 

Dennis sinned by leaving the church to come and meet us. As he saw us, he yelled: "go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog". And we all went to an Italian restaurant to have some pasta. Bob was eating so fast that he didn't stop to say a word. So I asked him: "say it, don't nod!". On the table next to ours, Lisa Bonet ate no basil, and when we asked for the waiter's name, he said "madam, I'm Adam".

Palindromes are so cool! They are words, sentences, numbers or anything that can be read the same way in either direction. Don't you love'em? Here's a song with some cool ones in English. This clip is a parody of Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues. Hope you enjoy it!

If you know any others, maybe in different languages, drop me a line and share them!


So long for now, lovelies!