‫Hello and welcome back to your next lesson.
‫So this is going to be a little bit different and it's another pronunciation lesson where I'm putting
‫the emphasis back on you for some actual practice.
‫So I always try and get you practice in as much as possible.
‫But here we're going to do some pretty tricky practice, all about your pronunciation of British English.
‫And as you can see from the picture we're doing, tongue twisters.
‫So tongue twisters, although, you know, fun for native English speakers, too.
‫They're also very useful in terms of practicing our pronunciation.
‫And just a few tips.
‫First, try not to say them too fast.
‫Trying to stress each sound individually and aim for accuracy.
‫So I'll read them through a few times.
‫Feel free to play them back, listen to my pronunciation and try and follow the way that I say these
‫tongue twisters.
‫So let's begin.
‫Let's take a look at the first tongue twister we have.
‫And it's a really short one.
‫Each of these tongue twisters will focus on certain sounds.
‫We've got about six tongue twisters in this practice lesson.
‫And here we're looking at the what what sound, what?
‫And I'm going to try and sound more formal in my pronunciation.
‫So here we go.
‫The first one.
‫Which which is which?
‫So we can see that the pronunciation of these words is the same for which and which.
‫If we're going for a really formal accent, we can go wait, which which is which, but is probably
‫easier just with the sound to go.
‫Which which is which?
‫Okay.
‫Let's take a look at our second tongue twister.
‫So this is one that I learned as a child.
‫In fact, my my mom, she was she worked as a sort of high ranking secretary.
‫And part of her job was to learn received pronunciation, which is sort of very formal, very posh English.
‫So that when she was dealing with different businesses, she had received pronunciation.
‫And this tongue twister will look at in two parts is actually really focusing on the ha sound.
‫Hurricanes hardly ever happen, so try and repeat this one after me.
‫Hurricanes hardly ever happen.
‫And one more time.
‫Hurricanes hardly ever happen.
‫Okay.
‫Do feel free to repeat these as often as you need.
‫Now, this was the first part of this tongue twisters and extension coming up, which makes things a
‫little bit more tricky.
‫So we have three place names capitalized here, Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire.
‫This is the full tongue twister, really focusing on the hot sound.
‫So let's have a read through now.
‫And of course, please repeat after me.
‫In Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire.
‫Hurricanes hardly ever happen.
‫And let's try that again in Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire.
‫Hurricanes hardly ever happen.
‫Really good way to focus on that sound.
‫And it's also a good way of learning the sort of repetition and the rhythm of the sentences.
‫Let's just try this one one more time.
‫In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen.
‫I do remember to try and stress those sounds really clear in that sounds.
‫Let's move on to our fourth tongue twister.
‫So this one's a little bit tricky focusing on.
‫And it sounds really good for you in terms of being able to understand the differences between the sounds.
‫We surely shall see the sun shine soon.
‫A little bit tricky in terms of the mouth movement between us.
‫And so let's try one more time.
‫We surely shall see the sunshine soon.
‫Even a little bit difficult for me.
‫Okay.
‫Try repeating after me again here.
‫We surely shall see the sunshine soon.
‫Now that one's quite difficult telling choices are also useful because in terms of the muscles in our
‫mouths, they train and build muscles, which actually helps with clear pronunciation.
‫Let's move on to our fifth tongue twister.
‫Here we're looking at PS and.
‫A proper copper coffee pot.
‫Another slightly more difficult one here.
‫Easy to get things wrong.
‫Let's try that again.
‫Nice and slow.
‫A proper copper coffee pot.
‫I think we'll do that one more time.
‫Repeat after me a proper copper coffee pot.
‫Okay.
‫Onto our last tongue twister.
‫So here we're looking at the sound or B or C, and this one again is quite easy to get wrong, but great
‫in terms of pronunciation practice.
‫So try repeat after me.
‫A noisy noise.
‫A noise.
‫An oyster.
‫And one more time do make sure that you're really stressing it sound nice and slowly.
‫You can build up speed as you practice more.
‫A noisy noise.
‫A noise, a noise.
‫Okay.
‫There you go.
‫So just a few tongue twisters for you.
‫If you can repeat this lesson and really practice each of these tongue twisters many times, multiple
‫times without being able to see them, it will definitely help with the pronunciation of some of these
‫sounds.
‫And again, it will build muscles that will aid with your English pronunciation.
‫So I hope you found that useful.
‫Any questions?
‫Please do let me know.
‫And if you'd like more tongue twisters, please do drop me a message.