As adults, it’s easy to forget how complicated speech really is, especially when you’re first learning it. Not only do small children have to figure out things like grammar and vocabulary but they’ve ...

Are you ready to take on the challenge? Ready to give your tongue a workout and see how well your tongue twister skills stack up? Put your money where your mouth is and give these 75 best tongue ...

It’s a question that has plagued English speakers for many decades: “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” To help with this, Greenwell, a College of Health and Human ...

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In my last article I provided both travelers and expats with a couple of skills for learning survival Spanish. Tongue twisters (or trabalenguas) are phrases that use repetitive sounds and are found in ...

Tongue twisters are phrases that are meant to be difficult to articulate properly. Some use rapid alternation between similar words, while others use alliteration (repetition of one sound) and rhyme ...

Think you have a quick tongue? These tongue twisters will put your mouth to the test. Unlike brain teasers and hard riddles, tongue twisters aren’t really testing your mental acumen (though it can ...

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New research on the neuroscience of tongue twisters—and stuttering—offers many insights into brain function and connectivity. Both tongue twisters and stuttering open windows into the brain's ...