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Tongue Twisters for IELTS Speaking

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Why are Tongue Twisters important for the IELTS Speaking Module?

Tongue twisters help you pronounce certain words and enunciate it clearly, the better you get at tongue twisters, the better control you will eventually have over your fluency as well. Here are some facts about tongue twisters that excite me and that is why I added a separate section for it on our website:
  • Tongue twisters stretch and strengthen your oral muscles (mouth and tongue) which you use to speak and hence improves your pronunciation (Who knew you had to exercise your mouth?)
  • Tongue twisters warm up your speaking ability. You will find that performers and public speakers often speak tongue twisters before they go out on stage.
  • Practicing tongue twisters will help you with your pronunciation skills and will help you figure out if you have any problems addressing complex sentences with S and Sh sounds or any other troubles you unknowingly face while pronouncing.
  • It will help you clarify the pronunciation of words which is very crucial in the IELTS Speaking Module.

WARNING!⚠️

If you bite and injure your tongue in this process, we are not liable for it. Haha. Have fun!
We’ll start with the one that my dad taught me when I was just a kid. Back then, I didn’t realize the importance of it. Hopefully, I do now, and I think after practicing it, you will too.
She sells sea shells on the seashore.
A quick tip: Read the word ‘SEA’ as the letter ‘C’. (She sells C shells on the C Shore).

Tongue Twisters Basics

Here are some sounds you should master before jumping to Tongue Twisters.

The ‘S Sound’ /s/ is unvoiced (the vocal cords do not vibrate during its production), and is the counterpart to the voiced ‘Z Sound’ /z/. (Try to produce both the sounds and you’ll know the difference). Read more…

There are two ‘L sound’ formations—also known as allophones of the ‘l sound’: a ‘light L’ and a ‘velar’ (or dark) ‘l’. The ‘velar L’ is represented by the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol /ɫ/. Read more…

The ‘ar sound’ /ɑr/ is an r-controlled vowel. Technically, this sound is two distinct sounds (vowel sound+’r sound’ /r/). It is presented with the name ‘ar sound’ /ɑr/ to distinguish the fact that Read more…

The ‘voiced Th’ /ð/ and ‘unvoiced Th’ /θ/ sounds are the only pair of English sounds that share a single, common spelling. For that reason, the ‘Th Sounds’ are presented together in this ESL/ELL  Read more…

Before we jump completely into twisting and breaking your tongue, this is the correct way to learn the tongue-twisters:
1. Say the word (individually) until you get it correct. (Google it if you need to).
2. Say two words together and repeat them until you are comfortable with those combined words.
3. Say the entire sentence a couple of times until it becomes natural to you.
4. Finally, try to go faster. Now, let’s twist some tongues.

Tongue Twisters according to different sounds.

Let's get those tongues rolling😛

If you think that all of this is not sufficient, check out these different tongue twisters with varied difficulties.

(P.S. Don’t forget to check out the world’s most difficult tongue twister.)
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