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Accent Expert Breaks Down Tongue Twisters in Different Accents

Accent Expert Breaks Down Tongue Twisters in Different Accents

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Dialect coach Erik Singer is back, this time to take a look at tongue twisters. We've all tried tongue twisters in our lives, and know how hard they can be! But why are they hard? What makes one group of words more difficult to speak fluidly than others? Erik explains why our tongues get so twisted up, and breaks down how different tongue twisters affect different people with different accents. Ultrasound Tongue Twister footage courtesy of Professor Ian Wilson, CLR Phonetics Lab at the University of Aizu, Japan Sagittal Section Diagram courtesy of Professor Daniel C. Hall, Linguistics & Department of English Saint Mary-s University, Halifax, N. S. Thank you for all our tongue twister participants! Nicole Cunniff Larry Chan Taylor Faires Nichole Holze Alina Peng Sarah Jack Siobhan Pesce Bob Wendland Anushka Conway Maxine Jones Jordan Trafford Elizabeth Cartwright Brooke Henzell Tim Mills Clare/Clisare Cullen Kamal Batra Dylan Rogers Kayla Pereira Marcus A Siler Louise Starks
Date: 2022-07-06

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It's interesting to me how-and this is just my experience and I'm sure doesn't reflect an actual pattern-British or Australian people affecting American accents always sound so much more convincing to me than Americans trying to affect British or Australian accents (except for Eric, who's accents always sound shockingly accurate to me) Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I'm American? I have no idea!
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My mother tongue is American English, and I taught ESL in Romania, mostly to middle school age children. Their biggest challenges which could rarely be mastered were the th sound, the American R and the American L. Romanian uses all dental consonants. The big test was for them to say, -the little girl. - This produced a great deal of hilarity
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My language doesn't have th sounds, and the fast thief one wasn't even remotely a tongue twister to me. Just a normally constructed sentence. If anything, it was easier to say fast several times in a row, than most regular everyday sentences.
The box of biscuits thoroughly thrashed me though. (Have some THs)

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My dialect (USA, rural Rocky Mountains) tends to say the word rural as one syllable (kind of just rrrrl) and we drop our word endings a lot as well (ie on plural, so I had an advantage over my fellow countrymen there, hah. Got tripped up on the -pl- instead
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The -hardest- twister was surprisingly easy for me and I a) have a speech impediment, b) Have hearing loss that affects how I understood and speak things, and c) Have big front teeth and TMJ so speaking fast can mess up my words. Yet somehow this was easy.
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Ice always found that unique new your was really difficult
And I really like Betty bought era and to sit in solemn silence, I have them memorised because I learned them in drama class and that was when my love tounge twisters first started

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How to beatbox 11 different genres: -
5: 30 dubstep -
6: 51 garage -
7: 08 hip hop -
8: 36 rap -
11: 00 electro -
10: 10 folk -
13: 11 glitch -
14: 31 drum & bass -
15: 00 house -
15: 12 bhangra -
15: 26 gabba

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I haven't found a tongue twister I can't say. I can say that supposedly hardest one on the first try. Some tongue twisters take me a couple of goes bit I get them real quick. I wonder how I can say them and why others struggle?
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To the explaination on how the S sound is formed. The way he explained it kinda surprised me as I typically rest the tip of my tongue against my lower teeth and raise the middle of my tongue instead.
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It's much easier if you say boat toy. Particularly if in your head you're very much saying boat toy and not toy boat. Even in groups of five or 10. At which point a listener couldn't tell the difference. Why?
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