Tongue Twisters Bahasa Inggris bisa digunakan untuk belajar pronunciation.  Dan belajar pronunciation itu nggak kalah penting dari ngafalin vocab. “Kalau kamu mau sound like a native with good pronunciation ya kamu harus banyak latihan” kata kak Fhia (mentor belajarku) beberapa waktu lalu. Kak Fhia emang bener banget! segala sesuatu kalau mau ahli ya banyak latihan. 

“Dari tongue twisters kamu bisa upgrade skill pronunciation. Tongue twisters itu susunan kata-kata yang bunyinya mirip jadi sulit diucapkan secara cepat dengan benar. Aku punya beberapa. Ada yang pendek ada yang panjang. Kalau kamu merasa kesulitan mulai aja dari yang pendek. Kalau udah terbiasa, boleh coba ke versi yang lebih panjang” katanya lagi waktu itu. Oiya mumpung inget, buat yang lagi menghafal vocab kamu bisa cek Cara Efektif Menghafal Kosakata Bahasa Inggris di sini. 

Dan ini dia list tongue twister yang Kak Fhia kasih, tongue twisters versi pendek dan tongue twister versi panjang. 

  • Tongue Twister pendek
    • Which witch is which? 
    • Really leery, rarely Larry.
    • Pad kid poured curd pulled cod 
    • Eleven benevolent elephants.
    • Cooks cook cupcakes quickly. 
    • Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.
    • A happy hippo hopped and hiccupped.
    • Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards.
    • Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.
  • Tongue Twisters Panjang
    • Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons balancing them badly.
    • If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
    • How much ground would a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground? A groundhog would hog all the ground he could hog if a groundhog could hog ground.
    • She sells seashells on the seashore. The shells she sells are seashells, I’m sure. And if she sells seashells on the seashore, Then I’m sure she sells seashore shells
    • Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers; A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked; If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked
    • Betty Botter bought some butter but, said she, the butter’s bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better. So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter, put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter batter better. So ‘t was better Betty Botter bought some better butter.

Jadi, tongue twisters mana nih yang paling mudah dan sulit kamu ucapin?  

Kalau aku, jujur ya, semuanya sulit. Sampai sekarang pun aku masih belajar tongue twisters buat memperbagus pronunciation. Semua pasti ada proses dan waktu, mie instan aja tetep butuh dimasak kan walaupun INSTAN?? Jadi yuk kita latihan bareng!!