V W, R L and S SH Pronunciation Practice with English Tongue Twisters

Practice the sounds v and w, r and l and s and sh with some English tongue twisters.
In this video we look at:
Very well
Red lorry, yellow lorry
Sally sells sea shells

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Hello everyone. Welcome to Simple English
Videos. I'm Vicki and I'm British.

And I'm Jay and I'm American. And today
we've got some more English tongue twisters for you to try.

Tongue twisters are short phrases that are

hard to pronounce.
We find them hard and we're English speakers.

So they're really hard if you're learning
English, but great practice because they get

your mouth muscles moving.
We've got some learners helping us today.

Let's see them in action.
OK, here's the first one.

Very well, very well, very well.
Very well, very well, very well, very well.

He had to think really hard there.
Yeah, he did well because he comes from Finland.

In Finnish, w is pronounced a bit like an
English v sound.

So this is really hard for him.
Yeah, and there are other languages where

v sounds like f. fff.
So this tongue twister is good practice?

Yes, and it's good for everyone if you want
to pronounce clearly. Actors do exercises

like this before they go on stage.
It improves their diction - how clearly they

say things.
Exactly.

You need to start slowly and then gradually
speed up.

For v, you want your top teeth to touch your
bottom lip but keep your lips relaxed. V – v

– you should feel a little vibration there.
V. What about w?

At the start of making the w sound, you need
to make your lips round and a little hard.

Like you're going to kiss someone.
Yeah. W is a short sound. W w

V. W. V. W. Very well. Very well.
If you look in a mirror, you should see your

lips go round at the start of ‘well'.
Well.

Try saying it with our learners.
Very well, very well, very well.

Very well, very well, very well.
Very well, very well, very well, very well.

They said it very well! OK. What's the next
one?

Red lorry, yellow lorry.
Lorry. That's a British word. We say truck

in American English.
Red lorry, yellow lorry. Red lorry, yellow

lorry.
Red lorry, yellow lorry.

Red lorry, yellow lorry. Red lorry, yellow
lorry. Red lorry, yellow lorry.

It's not easy.
Yeah. It's good practice for l and r sounds.

l - yellow, l - yellow.
With l the tongue touches the top of your

mouth just behind your top teeth.
And with R it doesn't touch. r – red,

r – red
Yeah, the tongue doesn't touch. And your

lips are a little rounded at the start. Red,
red.

Say it with our learners.
Red lorry, yellow lorry. Red lorry, yellow

lorry. Red lorry, yellow lorry.
Red lorry, yellow lorry. Red lorry, yellow

lorry.
Red lorry, yellow lorry. Red lorry, yellow

lorry. Whoo! That's a tongue twister. Yeah!
It IS a tongue twister!

Yeah. It's hard.
I've got an easy way to say it in American

English.
What's that?

Red truck, yellow truck, red truck, yellow
truck.

That's cheating. OK, last one.
What is it?

It's a very famous tongue twister. Let's
hear it.

Sally sells sea shells by the seashore. Sally
sells sea shells by the sea shore. Sally sells

sea shells by the seashore.
Sally sells sea shells by the seashore. Sally

sells sea shells by the sea shore. Sally sells
sea shells by the seashore.

So Sally is a girl's name and the shore
is the land along the edge of the sea or ocean.

It's where the land meets the water. I think
we say the word shore a little differently

in American and British.
Shore

Shore
Shore.

I pronounce the r more strongly. Shore.
And in American English you talk about going

to the shore for a vacation.
Yeah, and what do you say?

In British English we talk about going to
the seaside for a holiday.

Let's hear you say the tongue twister.
Sally sells sea shells.

Sally sells sea shells.
You've got to move quickly between sh and

s for this one. S – your tongue is forward,
and then you pull it up and back a little

for sh.
s sh s sh.

Sally sells sea shells by the seashore.
Sally sells sea shells by the seashore. Sally

sells sea shells by the sea shore. Sally sells
sea shells by the seashore. Whoo! Brilliant.

I think we need some music for this one. What
do you think?

Yeah, let's get some mood music. Sea shore
music.

OK. See if you can say this rhyhme with us.
She sells sea shells on the sea shore,

and the shells she sells are sea shells, I'm
sure.

For if she sells sea shells on the sea shore.
Then I'm sure she sells sea shore shells.

OK, that was pretty easy, I think.
Do you think they say it faster?

Sure you can!
OK then. Let's try. Are you ready?

She sells sea shells on the sea shore,
and the shells she sells are sea shells, I'm

sure.
For if she sells sea shells on the sea shore.

Then I'm sure she sells sea shore shells.
Could you keep up with us? You can play it

again if it was hard.
We need to say a big thank you to all the

learners who appeared in this video.
Yeah, you were great. Thank you very much.

I think we're finished, haven't we?
Yeah. But we'll be back next week with a

new video.
So make sure you subscribe to our channel

so you don't miss it.
See you next week. Bye everyone.

Bye-bye.

Very well, very well, very well.

Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore.

Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore

Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry.