Hello everybody I'm Niharika and thank you for clicking on this video
Well! Today we are gonna have fun with words.
Tongue Twisters to improve your English pronunciation
we are gonna look at some tongue twisters.
Now, tongue twisters help you to improve your pronunciation.
Well these are set of jumbled group of words that are designed to be difficult to
articulate rapidly and correctly so many people do get confused with certain
sounds. So, we are gonna look at those specific sounds and with the help of
tongue twisters you would get it correct. So let's get started. The first two
tongue twisters here will help you to correct your pronunciation of the sound
/s/ and /sh/, because many people use it incorrectly, so let's get started
She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
Now, remember you have to say these tongue twisters really fast and if you don't
get it the first time its okay you can just have fun with it. So, keep practicing
and you will get it. So the first one here is - She sells - So here the /sh/ will be the /sh/
sound. So She sells - it's again the /s/ sound... She sells sea shells on the sea shore. So come on let's do
it real fast -She sells sea shells on the sea shore. - so try practicing it and I'm
sure you will get rid of that confusion if you end up pronouncing /sh/ as /s/ and /s/ as /sh/
Okay, let's look at another one here The sixth sick Sheikh's sixth sheep is sick.
you know what? this tongue twister is considerd to be really difficult in
English language so try practicing it let's go slow and then you can do it really fast
Okay, The sixth...
So it's the /s/ sound... The sixth sick Sheikh's ( it's the /sh/ sound) sixth sheep( the /sh/ sound) is sick. okay
So, do wanna do it fast
The sixth sick Sheikh's sixth sheep is sick. Well, try it and trust me it will help
you to clear your doubts with the /S/ and the /sh/ sound, that's the /s/ and the /sh/ sound. Okay now
let's look at the third tongue twister here
Well this tongue twister will help you to pronounce the TH ( that is the /th/ sound)
correctly. Now remember when you are trying to pronounce the /th/ sound your
tongue will always come in between you teeth, okay so it's gonna go like this... THING
THIRTY... okay, so your tongue will be in between your teeth. So, let's get this correct
The thirty three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
okay so we went really slow, now
let's try it a little faster....The thirty three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne
throughout Thursday. Okay so this tongue twister will help you to
pronounce the /th/ sound correctly. Okay try doing it now let's look at the fourth tongue twister
Now here this tongue twister will help you to pronounce the /f/ sound and the /w/ sound. Now always keep in
mind when you try to pronounce the words with the /f/ sound you bite your lips okay So /f/ is
when you bite your lips. It's like
FIRST, FINISH... okay but when it comes to /W/ you always kiss your W's
WOLF, WONDER, WONDERFUL...Okay see you always kiss your W's and you bite your F. So, now
let's look at this tongue twister.. Okay...
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy,was he?
so try in doing a little faster and make sure that you bite your
F's and you can kiss your W's
So, it's - Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy,was he?
okay so that's the way you would pronounce these words now look at some more tongue twisters
Now here are some more tongue twisters for you, Now the first tongue twister
here is going to help us to pronounce /b/ and the /v/ sound
Now remember as we learned the /f/ sound remember I mentioned that when you try
to pronounce words with /f/ sound, with /f/ sound you always bite your lip so same
is applicable for the pronunciation of letter /V/... you again
end up biting your lip. So we are gonna look at this tongue twister and then you
can practice. Betty loves the velvet vest best.
Okay so we went a little slow now let's get a little sister faster....
Betty loves the velvet vest best.
Okay so here we are looking at the /b/ sound of course which is not very
difficult but yes people end up kissing their V's but the important thing
to remember is that you always bite your V's
Okay, it's gonna be ---Betty loves the velvet vest best.
okay
Now let's have a look at another tongue twister. Now here we are gonna try to pronounce the
/p/ sound, the words with the /p/ sound.Now, remember the letter P or the sound
/p/ is the plosive sound, which means that you always get your lips together
and air is released out of your mouth now to understand this better we are gonna
try to pronounce these words here. So, let's get started
Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. So in order to pronounce these
words which have the /p/ sound you always get your lips together, okay.... Peter Piper
and you release the air out of your mouth, it's very simple, it's not difficult
at all so keep practicing and you will get it correct
let's do this quickly.... Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.... got it now
let's look at the last one here, the last one is very simple, but make sure
that you pronounce it correctly. Again in this tongue twister we are looking at
the /v/ sound and the /w/ sound. Now, remember we said that when you are trying to
pronounce the letter V we always bite our V's whereas, when you are trying to
pronounce W you always kiss your /w/. Okay, so let's practice... Very well, Very well, Very well.
Okay so here these are simple words but it would really help you to get these
pronunciation correctly. So, it's... Very well, Very well, Very well. So, you're biting and
you're kissing you're biting and you're kissing. Okay so that's how it should be pronounced
Hope these tongue twisters are helpful to you, keep practicing them and trust me
you will do
great with your pronunciation skills. I'll be back with a new lesson soon until then you
take care and have a great day...