What are some good tongue twisters?

Improve your pronunciation with these 12 English tongue twisters

• Red lorry, yellow lorry.
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
• Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.
• Betty Botter bought some butter.
• Betty loves the velvet vest best.

What is J in Portuguese?

The sound that resembles the English J appears in Brazilian Portuguese in the syllable de (it’s pronounced more or less the same way as Ji in the English word Jim).

Why did she sell seashells on the seashore?

“She sells seashells by the seashore,” recites Chevalier. The tongue twister, she believes, was created in 1908 as a tribute to Mary Anning, even though Anning sold mostly fossils. But she wasn’t one to get stuck selling silly seashells for the rest of her life. Anning was about to do something much bigger.

What is a tongue twister?

So what’s a tongue twister? Cambridge Dictionary defines it as “a sentence or phrase that is intended to be difficult to say, especially when repeated quickly and often”. Tongue twisters don’t make a lot of sense, but they are filled with repeated sounds making them extremely helpful in speech therapy.

Is there an app to speak Portuguese in Brazil?

Portuguese is one of the most widely used languages in the world. Born in Portugal, it is now the primary language in Brazil and used in several African countries. The audio in this app is recorded by a native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese. This app will help you speak in Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon or São Paulo.

Where did the Peter Piper tongue twister come from?

For example, the world-famous Peter Piper tongue twister first appeared in print sometime in 1813, in a book called “Peter Piper’s Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation” (a tongue twister in itself, isn’t it?). Nevertheless, to this day, people all around the world still love to have a laugh and improve their pronunciation