Role of Tongue Twisters in spoken English

Why Tongue Twisters? Whenever you’re at home (or alone somewhere else) you can practice speaking English to yourself in a mirror. Think in English, try speaking your thoughts out loud, have a debate with yourself right in front of a mirror looking at yourself. Just the act of speaking out loud will help you become more comfortable speaking English. The idea behind this practice is to pull you out of your shell. Almost every beginner’s biggest hurdle to speak a foreign language fluently is the lack of confidence. When you start seeing yourself speaking something over and over again with betterment at each step, you grow in confidence.

These are the some tongue twisters you must try speaking over and over again in front of a mirror. While you practice this, you must keep in mind that the two most important things in this practice are : Fluency and expressions. Don’t bother much about accent or slip of tongue.

Tongue Twisters– Hard

There was a fisherman named Fisher
who fished for some fish in a fissure.
Till a fish with a grin,
pulled the fisherman in.
Now they’re fishing the fissure for Fisher.

Denise sees the fleece,
Denise sees the fleas.At least Denise could sneeze
and feed and freeze the fleas

To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
A dull, dark dock, a life-long lock,
A short, sharp shock, a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a pestilential prison,
And awaiting the sensation
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!

by W.S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan from The Mikado
Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees’ cheese freeze.
That’s what made these three free fleas sneeze.

from Fox in Sox by Dr. Seuss

How many cans can a cannibal nibble
if a cannibal can nibble cans?As many cans as a cannibal can nibble
if a cannibal can nibble cans.

Bobby Bippy bought a bat.
Bobby Bippy bought a ball.
With his bat Bob banged the ball
Banged it bump against the wall
But so boldly Bobby banged it
That he burst his rubber ball
“Boo!” cried Bobby
Bad luck ball
Bad luck Bobby, bad luck ball
Now to drown his many troubles
Bobby Bippy’s blowing bubbles.

from mid-Willamette Valley theater

A tree toad loved a she-toad,
Who lived up in a tree.
He was a three-toed tree toad,
But a two-toed toad was she.
The three-toed tree toad tried to win,
The two-toed she-toad’s heart,
For the three-toed tree toad loved the ground,
That the two-toed tree toad trod.
But the three-toed tree toad tried in vain.
He couldn’t please her whim.
From her tree toad bower,
With her two-toed power,
The she-toad vetoed him.

Tongue Twisters for kids

Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes.

Seven sleazy shysters in sharkskin suits sold sheared sealskins to seasick sailors.

I would if I could! But I can’t, so I won’t!

Silly sheep weep and sleep.

Truly rural, truly rural, truly rural, ...

A turbot’s not a burbot, for a turbot’s a butt, but a burbot’s not.

The seething sea ceaseth; thus the seething sea sufficeth us.

Real weird rear wheels

I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, upon a slitted sheet I sit.

A pessimistic pest exists amidst us.

Five fuzzy French frogs Frolicked through the fields in France.Two to two to Toulouse?

Swatch watch

Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.

Buckets of bug blood, buckets of bug blood, buckets of bug blood

If coloured caterpillars could change their colours constantly could they keep their coloured coat coloured properly?

We won, we won, we won, we won, …

Thirty-three thousand people think that Thursday is their thirtieth birthday.

How much ground could a groundhog grind if a groundhog could grind ground?

How may saws could a see-saw saw if a see-saw could saw saws?

Shut up the shutters and sit in the shop.

Rattle your bottles in Rollocks’ van.

Bake big batches of bitter brown bread.

Bake big batches of brown blueberry bread.

She sits in her slip and sips Schlitz.

Which wristwatch is a Swiss wristwatch?

Whoever slit the sheets is a good sheet slitter.

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