Practice Pronunciation with Tongue Twisters

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Practice Pronunciation With Tongue Twisters To Improve Your Speaking Skills Whether you are a native speaker or a non-native speaker, speaking clearly and confidently and having good listening skills are two of the skills most business people need to accomplish when building a successful career. As the speaker, you need to speak and pronounce the words as clearly as possible. If you are mumbling or swallowing part of your words, speaking too quickly or running your words together, the listener may have difficulty understanding you. Nothing stops effective business communication faster than the inability to understand or be understood.

One Method To Improve Your Pronunciation

One method to help you to improve your pronunciation, and to gain confidence in using English, is to practice tongue twisters. Tongue Twisters are a sequence of words or sounds that are difficult to pronounce quickly and correctly. Many tongue twisters can also help you if you have problems pronouncing specific letters such as R, S, C, H, and the Th sound. Many English tongue twisters have been around for a long time, but new Tongue Twisters are invented all the time. Tongue twisters are not just for kids. There are business tongue twisters and general adult tongue twisters.

How To Use A Tongue Twister

The result you want to achieve is to be able to pronounce each word clearly. Start by slowly reading the tongue twister. Speak each word as clearly as you can. Once you are happy that you are saying each word as clearly as possible, it is time to read the twister, but faster this time. Keep increasing the pace but make sure you are speaking the words clearly. To ensure you are pronouncing the words clearly, record them, maybe on your phone, and listen to how you sound. Can you understand what you are saying? You could ask a close friend to listen to see if they can understand what you are saying. We practice speaking the twisters faster and faster to practice our pronunciation but remember you do not need to speak fast. Speaking slower can give the listener time to digest what you have said, and it gives you time to think about what you are saying. Speaking slower, with emphasis on important words, can also make you sound more authoritative as well 🙂

Business Tongue Twisters

See How Fast and Clearly You Can Say Them

Bigger business isn’t better business, but better business brings bigger bonuses. ————- Marketing managers make marvellous merchants
How do lay off’s pay off? In the saved paid days off Of those laid off! ————– Nine Negotiators never need to negotiate their net worth
If one doctor doctors another doctor does the doctor who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors

Tongue Twisters For Letters

See How Fast and Clearly You Can Say Them

H Harry Hunt haunts horrid hot hotels Harriet hamster happily hugs hairy hares
R Round Roger rabbit ran around the room
TH That thief thinks there are three thorns on the throne. Thirsty throats that drink thousands of thermoses of tea.

S & C

Sheep – Cheap,

Ship – Chip,

Shop – Chop,

Shear – Cheer,

Sheet – Cheat,

Store – Chore

Sore – Core

Sow – Cow

Well-Known Tongue Twisters

See How Fast and Clearly You Can Say Them

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where’s the peck of pickled peppers that Peter Piper picked?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, If a woodchuck could chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?

I hope you enjoyed practising 

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