Elissa Weinzimmer here I'm a vocal health educator and the founder of Voice
Body Connection and today in my house warm-up video series we are at the last
stage of the game again language now last week in the articulation video we
talked about fricatives and we focused specifically on the sounds F, V, TH both
unvoiced and voiced S, Z and SH and ZH ok so now we're going to put all of
those sounds together in different configurations in tongue twisters to
practice them in language ok so the first one we're going to do today is one
you might be familiar with it is she sells seashells down by the seashore
so this one gets into SH, S and Z ok so let's do it four times here we go nice
and slow she sells seashells down by the seashore
she sells seashells down by the seashore ok quick break before we continue do you
notice even though the word is spelled with an S at the end it's actually
pronounced with a Z shells yeah so make sure you actually make your voiced Z at
the end of that word ok let's do the last 2 a little faster she sells
seashells down by the seashore she sells seashells down by the seashore very nice
feel free to do a little dance because it's nice to move your body while you do
it too ok this next one's really fun and very challenging you'll find it actually
in the movie The King's Speech and it goes like this
I am a thistle sifter I have a sieve of sifted thistles and a sieve of unsifted
thistles because I am a thistle sifter yeah ok we actually have to explain what it means
because by the way it gets really hard to remember something longer like that
if you don't think about what you're saying so a thistle sifter would be someone who
takes those prickly flowers those thistles and sifts them or separates them
into two different sieves which is a basket right with like little holes in
it so that things can sift through it make sense okay so the sounds in here we
have an F we have a V we have an S we have an unvoiced TH right so we're
getting a little bit of voice with the V but mostly we're focusing on our
unvoiced sounds okay our unvoiced fricatives here we go let's do it two
times I am a thistle sifter I have a sieve of sifted thistles and a sieve of
unsifted thistles because I am a thistle sifter there's a Z in there too
did you hear it because yeah I am a thistle sifter I have a sieve of sifted thistles
and a sieve of unsifted thistles because I am a thistle sifter okay very nice that
one is really challenging so work your way up on it keep practicing and I'm
going to give you one more this one gets into a couple sounds that we haven't
covered yet that we did cover last week the voiced TH and the voiced ZH so that
sound yeah and also we'll have a V in here so I made this one up for you
because there's not a lot of good tongue twisters out there with these sounds this
one goes I love to loathe the luge yeah like luging going down the street I love
to loathe the luge now there's also a reason that I put these harder sounds
that we're focusing on at the end of the syllable because it takes more breath
support and energy to continue making that sound all the way continuously
through and actually buzz it in a voiced way all the way to the end okay so
really use your breath support I love to loathe the luge let's make it a little bit
longer I love
to loathe the luge very nice okay you guys have got some good warm-ups to take you
through these practice them and get faster at them and enjoy