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Speak English Now Podcast: Learn English | Speak English without grammar.

#087 English accent reduction - Pronunciation practice with tongue twisters

Speak English Now Podcast: Learn English | Speak English without grammar.

Georgiana

Education, Language Learning

4.6536 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

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Today I'll focus again on the English pronunciation particularly on the vowels with some funny tongue twisters. I'm sure you remember that I made another episode about tongue twisters just recently.

And in the second part of this episode, you'll learn English grammar without studying any rules with an exclusive point of view story.

But first, I'll remind you what a tongue twister is. It's usually a sentence that is difficult to say fast because the words in the sentence have very similar sounds. 

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0:00.0

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0:08.4

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0:16.9

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0:27.4

course.com. And now, enjoy today's episode. Okay, let's start.

0:39.4

Today I'll focus again on the English pronunciation, particularly on the vowels with some

0:48.0

funny tongue twisters. I'm sure you remember that I made another episode about tongue twisters just recently.

0:56.0

If you missed it, just go to my website and listen to episode number 83.

1:04.2

And in the second part of this episode, you will learn English grammar without studying any rules and with an exclusive point-of-view story.

1:17.5

Okay, let's start. But first, I'll remind you what a tongue twister is. It's usually a sentence that is difficult to say fast because the words

1:32.5

in the sentence have very similar sounds. For example, Annie ate eight Arctic apples, right? That's

1:42.6

difficult, isn't it? So, tongue twisters allow us to practice pronunciation,

1:50.3

and most importantly, agility when pronouncing sounds in the language. If you want to sound

1:58.1

more like an American, it's vital to pronounce vowels correctly.

2:04.2

The following tongue twisters will help you reduce your accent for the vowels A, E, O, and

2:12.2

you. Like any other tongue twister, your goal is to recite as fast as possible with a few mistakes.

2:23.4

Like any other tongue twister, your goal is to recite as fast as possible and with few mistakes.

2:33.7

Okay, now let's see some tongue twisters. I'll start saying each tongue twister slowly,

2:44.0

and then continue faster. And while it's true that at first, they can seem very difficult, don't worry about it.

2:54.1

Make sure you have the text in front of you, because like that, you can follow it better.

3:00.9

Let's listen to the first tongue twister.

3:05.7

Excited executioner exercising his excises powers excessively.

3:14.6

Okay, let's say it faster now.

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