{"id":948,"date":"2015-10-06T15:30:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=948"},"modified":"2015-10-06T15:42:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:42:35","slug":"tongue-twisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/tongue-twisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Tongue Twisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tongue twisters can be a fun way of\u00a0practising\u00a0your pronunciation. Try some of the examples below aloud.<\/p>\n<p><em>Shep Schwab shopped at Scott&#8217;s Schnapps shop;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>One shot of Scott&#8217;s Schnapps stopped Schwab&#8217;s watch.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2380\/2243095166_a62ceb6f39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"86\" height=\"115\" \/>All I want is a proper cup of coffee,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Made in a proper copper coffee pot.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The keen king kissed the quick queen on her green ring.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Other than their brother, I&#8217;d rather bother those <\/em><br \/>\n<em>who gather worthier brethren than these.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And what is considered by many to be the most difficult tongue twister in English:<\/p>\n<p><em>The sixth sick Sheik&#8217;s sixth sheep&#8217;s sick.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of course, tongue twisters do not only exist in English &#8211; most languages have them. The video below shows some examples from around the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_31116\"  width=\"604\" height=\"340\"  data-origwidth=\"604\" data-origheight=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cV4lotOGxHY?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tongue twisters can be a fun way of\u00a0practising\u00a0your pronunciation. Try some of the examples below aloud. Shep Schwab shopped at Scott&#8217;s Schnapps shop; One shot of Scott&#8217;s Schnapps stopped Schwab&#8217;s watch. All I want is a proper cup of coffee, Made in a proper copper coffee pot. Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}