Showing posts with label tongue-twisters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tongue-twisters. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Polishing Pronunciation Properly

Trouble with pronunciation may be solved by old-fashioned but reliable technique – tongue twisters

The more of them you practice, the easier it becomes to get the hang of the hurtfully difficult English ‘th’, ‘w’ vs ‘v’, ‘ir’, ‘ur’ and so forth.
I am happy to provide you with the set of my favourite ones that I used to hate as a student. I still dream sometimes myself holding a mirror in front of my tongue, trying to figure out if the tongue has been fixed in the right position :)

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