/T/, /W/ & /D/ Tongue Twisters are great coordination exercises to improve American English pronunciation fluency for words that combine voiced and unvoiced /T & D/ sounds. Strengthen your lip "pucker" muscles for /W/. Give these Tongue and Mouth exercises a try. Leave a comment to tell me which ones you can do easily or not.
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Use a mirror to watch yourself.
Practice your lip movements with this video.
/D & W/: How much dew, would a dewdrop drop if a dewdrop could drop dew.
/T/: Ten tired tailors telling a terrifying tale.
/T/ and /D/: A tutor who tooted a flute, tried to tutor two tutors to toot. Said the two to the tutor is it harder to toot or to tutor two tutors to toot.
/T/ is voiceless - with a quick burst of Air
/D/ is voiced - same tongue position as /T/, but with vibration
Which Tongue Twister is easy for you? Which one gives you the most trouble? Leave a comment and tell me what happens.
Tongue Twisters are the calisthenics of pronunciation practice. REPEAT them 3-5 times a day. Speak each sound with the correct tongue, lip and mouth placement. Start slowly, then build speed.
● Muscle coordination control for articulation.
● Handy concentration habit for correct lip and tongue position
● Improve fluency of movement between the alphabet sounds
● Muscle memory development between your mouth and brain
● Easy muscle warm-up to speak more clearly for presentations
Use the STAIRstep intonation.
● Stress content words and correct syllables with a higher pitch & hold a fraction of a second longer
● Quick unstressed function words are linked to the next word
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