What do tongue twisters do

The speaker is overexcited or just has a habit of speaking in a particular way. Any habit can be broken, and the first step to cleaning up sloppy speech is being aware of how you speak.

Once you're aware, you can practice speaking well. Tongue twisters, sentences that repeat similar sound patterns, are an excellent vehicle for this because trying to say them aloud forces you to pay attention to how you're speaking.

To say a tongue twister properly, you have to concentrate on what you're saying and fully enunciate each word and syllable—otherwise, your words are going to get all twisted together into a garbled, meaningless mishmash. Below are several sets of tongue twister exercises for you to practice speaking clearly and enunciating properly.

Once you've learned them, try saying several tongue twisters before your next important conversation or speech. Your focus should carry over, and you'll be speaking more clearly than you would have otherwise.

Say each of the following sentences out loud three times each, as quickly as you can while fully enunciating each word. Here are some familiar, moderately difficult classics. Don't be fooled—it's not the length that makes a tongue twister challenging although a few of these are fairly long ; it's the particular combination of sounds that makes them so tricky. Have fun! Repeat any or all of these exercises as many times as you like, and see how quickly your enunciation improves.

When asked to repeat the phrase 10 times quickly, many volunteers were forced to stop talking altogether. Below are some of my favorite tongue twisters. Try your hand at them and comment down below if you were able to get them out clearly. Your turn to try your hand at 10 of my favorite tongue twisters. Check out these super fun tongue twister coloring sheets. Really into tongue twisters? Wondering what MIT notes as the most difficult tongue twister??

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