Season 5 recap - Burger burglars and other tongue twisters

English Sound Building - British Pronunciation

12/05/22 • 12 min

Welcome to season 5 of English Sound Building! Today, we’re reviewing all the sounds from season 5, and many others too, with ten tongue twisters.

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12/05/22 • 12 min

English Sound Building - British Pronunciation - Season 5 recap - Burger burglars and other tongue twisters

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It's season recap time, and this time around it’s all about tongue twisters! I’ve chosen ten for us to work through today, to cover all of the sounds from this season, which have been /r/ (a lot of that), /e/, /ɜ:/, /eə / and /eɪ/, and of course the /r/ and /l/ clusters from the last few weeks.

Firstly, to practise /ɜ:/, but with an /l/ cluster in there too (as well as some non rhotic /r/s), a very short one:

Burger burglar.

Next, one mixing /ɜ:/ and /e/<

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