1 00:00:01,630 --> 00:00:05,110 ‫Hello and welcome back to your next lesson. 2 00:00:05,410 --> 00:00:12,100 ‫So this is going to be a little bit different and it's another pronunciation lesson where I'm putting 3 00:00:12,100 --> 00:00:17,080 ‫the emphasis back on you for some actual practice. 4 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:20,700 ‫So I always try and get you practice in as much as possible. 5 00:00:20,710 --> 00:00:28,900 ‫But here we're going to do some pretty tricky practice, all about your pronunciation of British English. 6 00:00:29,110 --> 00:00:32,980 ‫And as you can see from the picture we're doing, tongue twisters. 7 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:38,080 ‫So tongue twisters, although, you know, fun for native English speakers, too. 8 00:00:38,350 --> 00:00:44,470 ‫They're also very useful in terms of practicing our pronunciation. 9 00:00:44,950 --> 00:00:46,410 ‫And just a few tips. 10 00:00:46,420 --> 00:00:49,390 ‫First, try not to say them too fast. 11 00:00:49,510 --> 00:00:55,330 ‫Trying to stress each sound individually and aim for accuracy. 12 00:00:55,540 --> 00:00:57,940 ‫So I'll read them through a few times. 13 00:00:58,180 --> 00:01:04,840 ‫Feel free to play them back, listen to my pronunciation and try and follow the way that I say these 14 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:06,160 ‫tongue twisters. 15 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:07,780 ‫So let's begin. 16 00:01:07,780 --> 00:01:10,330 ‫Let's take a look at the first tongue twister we have. 17 00:01:10,810 --> 00:01:12,520 ‫And it's a really short one. 18 00:01:12,940 --> 00:01:16,950 ‫Each of these tongue twisters will focus on certain sounds. 19 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:21,040 ‫We've got about six tongue twisters in this practice lesson. 20 00:01:21,490 --> 00:01:25,150 ‫And here we're looking at the what what sound, what? 21 00:01:25,450 --> 00:01:29,980 ‫And I'm going to try and sound more formal in my pronunciation. 22 00:01:30,370 --> 00:01:31,150 ‫So here we go. 23 00:01:31,150 --> 00:01:31,840 ‫The first one. 24 00:01:32,350 --> 00:01:34,660 ‫Which which is which? 25 00:01:38,580 --> 00:01:44,430 ‫So we can see that the pronunciation of these words is the same for which and which. 26 00:01:44,670 --> 00:01:51,990 ‫If we're going for a really formal accent, we can go wait, which which is which, but is probably 27 00:01:51,990 --> 00:01:54,300 ‫easier just with the sound to go. 28 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,760 ‫Which which is which? 29 00:02:00,790 --> 00:02:01,350 ‫Okay. 30 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:04,510 ‫Let's take a look at our second tongue twister. 31 00:02:05,590 --> 00:02:08,500 ‫So this is one that I learned as a child. 32 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:14,050 ‫In fact, my my mom, she was she worked as a sort of high ranking secretary. 33 00:02:14,290 --> 00:02:24,190 ‫And part of her job was to learn received pronunciation, which is sort of very formal, very posh English. 34 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:29,380 ‫So that when she was dealing with different businesses, she had received pronunciation. 35 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:37,510 ‫And this tongue twister will look at in two parts is actually really focusing on the ha sound. 36 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:43,360 ‫Hurricanes hardly ever happen, so try and repeat this one after me. 37 00:02:43,540 --> 00:02:46,000 ‫Hurricanes hardly ever happen. 38 00:02:49,340 --> 00:02:50,540 ‫And one more time. 39 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:52,970 ‫Hurricanes hardly ever happen. 40 00:02:56,990 --> 00:02:57,330 ‫Okay. 41 00:02:57,340 --> 00:03:01,840 ‫Do feel free to repeat these as often as you need. 42 00:03:02,140 --> 00:03:07,960 ‫Now, this was the first part of this tongue twisters and extension coming up, which makes things a 43 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:09,460 ‫little bit more tricky. 44 00:03:10,540 --> 00:03:17,620 ‫So we have three place names capitalized here, Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire. 45 00:03:18,220 --> 00:03:22,790 ‫This is the full tongue twister, really focusing on the hot sound. 46 00:03:22,810 --> 00:03:24,520 ‫So let's have a read through now. 47 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:26,380 ‫And of course, please repeat after me. 48 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:29,910 ‫In Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire. 49 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:32,010 ‫Hurricanes hardly ever happen. 50 00:03:38,130 --> 00:03:42,060 ‫And let's try that again in Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire. 51 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:44,220 ‫Hurricanes hardly ever happen. 52 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:54,340 ‫Really good way to focus on that sound. 53 00:03:54,660 --> 00:04:02,570 ‫And it's also a good way of learning the sort of repetition and the rhythm of the sentences. 54 00:04:02,580 --> 00:04:04,560 ‫Let's just try this one one more time. 55 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:09,450 ‫In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen. 56 00:04:16,260 --> 00:04:22,440 ‫I do remember to try and stress those sounds really clear in that sounds. 57 00:04:22,710 --> 00:04:26,460 ‫Let's move on to our fourth tongue twister. 58 00:04:27,870 --> 00:04:31,320 ‫So this one's a little bit tricky focusing on. 59 00:04:31,890 --> 00:04:40,230 ‫And it sounds really good for you in terms of being able to understand the differences between the sounds. 60 00:04:41,870 --> 00:04:45,350 ‫We surely shall see the sun shine soon. 61 00:04:51,250 --> 00:04:55,970 ‫A little bit tricky in terms of the mouth movement between us. 62 00:04:56,020 --> 00:04:58,720 ‫And so let's try one more time. 63 00:04:59,620 --> 00:05:03,150 ‫We surely shall see the sunshine soon. 64 00:05:04,690 --> 00:05:06,310 ‫Even a little bit difficult for me. 65 00:05:07,270 --> 00:05:07,590 ‫Okay. 66 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:09,190 ‫Try repeating after me again here. 67 00:05:09,370 --> 00:05:12,520 ‫We surely shall see the sunshine soon. 68 00:05:19,270 --> 00:05:26,290 ‫Now that one's quite difficult telling choices are also useful because in terms of the muscles in our 69 00:05:26,290 --> 00:05:33,070 ‫mouths, they train and build muscles, which actually helps with clear pronunciation. 70 00:05:33,700 --> 00:05:36,820 ‫Let's move on to our fifth tongue twister. 71 00:05:37,780 --> 00:05:40,300 ‫Here we're looking at PS and. 72 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,470 ‫A proper copper coffee pot. 73 00:05:52,950 --> 00:05:55,670 ‫Another slightly more difficult one here. 74 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:57,000 ‫Easy to get things wrong. 75 00:05:57,270 --> 00:05:58,290 ‫Let's try that again. 76 00:05:58,860 --> 00:05:59,940 ‫Nice and slow. 77 00:06:01,340 --> 00:06:03,890 ‫A proper copper coffee pot. 78 00:06:11,140 --> 00:06:13,500 ‫I think we'll do that one more time. 79 00:06:13,530 --> 00:06:17,850 ‫Repeat after me a proper copper coffee pot. 80 00:06:24,420 --> 00:06:24,960 ‫Okay. 81 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,420 ‫Onto our last tongue twister. 82 00:06:29,210 --> 00:06:38,750 ‫So here we're looking at the sound or B or C, and this one again is quite easy to get wrong, but great 83 00:06:38,750 --> 00:06:40,490 ‫in terms of pronunciation practice. 84 00:06:40,490 --> 00:06:42,290 ‫So try repeat after me. 85 00:06:42,710 --> 00:06:44,210 ‫A noisy noise. 86 00:06:44,210 --> 00:06:44,930 ‫A noise. 87 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:45,680 ‫An oyster. 88 00:06:54,760 --> 00:07:00,760 ‫And one more time do make sure that you're really stressing it sound nice and slowly. 89 00:07:00,970 --> 00:07:04,240 ‫You can build up speed as you practice more. 90 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:07,400 ‫A noisy noise. 91 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:08,540 ‫A noise, a noise. 92 00:07:15,940 --> 00:07:16,390 ‫Okay. 93 00:07:16,390 --> 00:07:16,960 ‫There you go. 94 00:07:16,990 --> 00:07:20,260 ‫So just a few tongue twisters for you. 95 00:07:20,530 --> 00:07:27,760 ‫If you can repeat this lesson and really practice each of these tongue twisters many times, multiple 96 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:33,400 ‫times without being able to see them, it will definitely help with the pronunciation of some of these 97 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:34,150 ‫sounds. 98 00:07:34,420 --> 00:07:39,910 ‫And again, it will build muscles that will aid with your English pronunciation. 99 00:07:40,090 --> 00:07:42,070 ‫So I hope you found that useful. 100 00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:42,910 ‫Any questions? 101 00:07:42,910 --> 00:07:44,050 ‫Please do let me know. 102 00:07:44,260 --> 00:07:48,970 ‫And if you'd like more tongue twisters, please do drop me a message.