Kumpulan Tongue Twister - Melatih Pronunciation Anda

Tongue Twister itu apa sih? Haduuh, saya juga tidak begitu menyukai dengan makanan ini. Ya, makanan yang satu bisa membuat lidah anda “kepanasan” karena rasanya yang pedas. Hah? Benarkah? Hmm...  Sobat pasti sudah tahu “tongue twister” yang populer dalam bahasa Indonesia seperti “Kakak, kok kuku-kuku kaki-kaki kakak-kakak ku kok kaku-kaku kak?” ya seperti itulah tongue twister si Pembelit Lidah yang membuat lidah kita mengucapkan kata kata yang “belibet”.
 

Menurut bang Wikipedia sih, Tongue Twister adalah a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly, and can be used as a type of spoken (or sung) word game. Kira-kira arti dalam Bahasa Indonesianya seperti ini, “frasa atau susunan kata-kata yang memiliki kemiripan dalam bunyi sehingga sulit diucapkan secara cepat dengan benar.” Begitu... Belum puas melihat arti Tongue Twister si Pembelit lidah dari bang Wikipedia? Oke kita tampilkan saja makna Tongue Twister dari Mbah Google, seperti pada gambar di bawah ini.
 

A sequence of words or sounds, typically of an alliterative kind, that are difficult to pronounce quickly and correctly, as, for example, tie twine to three tree twigs.

Tidak jauh berbeda dengan definisi / pengertian tongue twister dari bang Wikipedia bukan? Nah, di sini saya akan memberikan kumpulan tongue twister yang bisa dijadikan bahan ajar di kelas (untuk guru) atau bahan latihan (untuk siswa) agar dapat meningkatkan kualitas pronunciation. Oke, tidak usah panjang lebar, ini dia kumpulan Pembelit Lidah Bahasa Inggris yang bisa melatih lidah anda melafalkan kata kata berbahasa Inggris.
 

1. I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
2. The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
3. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.
4. There was a fisherman named Fisher
   who fished for some fish in a fissure.
   Till a fish with a grin,
   pulled the fisherman in.
   Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.
5. I scream, you scream, we all scream for icecream!
6. Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses.
7. Ann and Andy's anniversary is in April.
8. How many cookies could a good cook cook If a good cook could cook cookies? A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.
9. Mr. Tongue Twister tried to train his tongue to twist and turn, and twit an twat, to learn the letter "T".
10. She saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa. But was she so sure she saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa?
11. Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.
12. Four furious friends fought for the phone.
13. As I was in Arkansas I saw a saw that could out saw any saw I ever saw saw. If you happen to be in Arkansas and see a saw that can out saw the saw I saw saw I'd like to see the saw you saw saw.
14. He threw three balls.
15. Singing Sammy sung songs on sinking sand.
16. We're real rear wheels.
17. On a lazy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser.
18. The ruddy widow really wants ripe watermelon and red roses when winter arrives.
19. If you're keen on stunning kites and cunning stunts, buy a cunning stunning stunt kite.
20. Two tiny tigers take two taxis to town.
21. Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds.
22. Excited executioner exercising his excising powers excessively.
23. This is the sixth zebra snoozing thoroughly.
24. Casual clothes are provisional for leisurely trips across Asia.
25. She said she should sit.
26. The big black bug bit the big black bear,but the big black bear bit the big black bug back!
27. A gazillion gigantic grapes gushed gradually giving gophers gooey guts.
28. If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing.
29. If you understand, say "understand".
    If you don't understand, say "don't understand".
    But if you understand and say "don't understand".
    how do I understand that you understand. Understand!?
30. There those thousand thinkers were thinking where did those other three thieves go through.
31. Love's a feeling you feel when you feel you're going to feel the feeling you've never felt before.
32. Dr. Johnson and Mr. Johnson, after great consideration, came to the conclusion that the Indian nation beyond the Indian Ocean is back in education because the chief occupation is cultivation.
    
    
33. If coloured caterpillars could change their colours constantly could they keep their coloured coat coloured properly? 
    
    
     SPECIAL TONGUE TWISTER

    When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write. You can write good and copyright but copyright doesn't mean copy good - it might not be right good copy, right?
    Now, writers of religious services write rite, and thus have the right to copyright the rite they write.
    Conservatives write right copy, and have the right to copyright the right copy they write. A right wing cleric might write right rite, and have the right to copyright the right rite he has the right to write. His editor has the job of making the right rite copy right before the copyright would be right. Then it might be copy good copyright.
    Should Thom Wright decide to write, then Wright might write right rite, which Wright has a right to copyright. Copying that rite would copy Wright's right rite, and thus violate copyright, so Wright would have the legal right to right the wrong. Right?
    Legals write writs which is a right or not write writs right but all writs, copied or not, are writs that are copyright. Judges make writers write writs right.
    Advertisers write copy which is copyright the copy writer's company, not the right of the writer to copyright. But the copy written is copyrighted as written, right?
    Wrongfully copying a right writ, a right rite or copy is not right.

     

Saya kira 33 tongue Twister di atas sudah lebih dari cukup untuk bahan melatih pelafalan Bahasa Inggris anda semua. Jika 33 belum cukup, masih ada sekitar 300an lagi, santai saja, ucapkan saja dengan cepat dan benar kata kata mutiara di atas (hihihi). Jika sudah cepat dan benar meski diulang 100 kali, maka dengan suka rela saya akan menambah tongue twister lainnya, Ok?
 

Menurut anda, tongue twister nomor berapakah yang paling sulit diucapkan sehingga anda sering salah membacanya? sebutkan alasannya?

Resources
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• English Tongue Twister at http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm
• Tongue-twister at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-twister

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