早口言葉で発音練習
インターネットやソーシャルメディアを中心に、ユニークで面白いフレーズの早口言葉があります。
The world’s fastest tongue twister
◽️If you had a million dollars, would you buy a million gumballs or a million rubber bands? If you bought a million gumballs, you could chew one every day for almost 30 years. But if you bought a million rubber bands, you could make a giant rubber band ball and bounce it all over the place!
この早口言葉は、TikTokで「#fastesttonguetwister」のハッシュタグと共に投稿され、多くのユーザーがチャレンジしています。「million gumballs」と「million rubber bands」のリズミカルなフレーズが特徴です。
◽️I saw a saw that saw a saw that saw a saw
I saw a saw that saw a saw that saw a saw. I saw a saw that saw a saw that saw a saw. I saw a saw that saw a saw that saw a saw. I saw a saw that saw a saw that saw a saw.
「saw」という単語を繰り返したシンプルな早口言葉ですが、テンポを上げると意外と難しいです。Twitterでは、この早口言葉をいかに速く言えるかを競うチャレンジが行われています。
◽️Betty Botter bought a bit of butter
定番の早口言葉ですが、最近また人気が高まっています。
Betty Botter bought a bit of butter. “But,” she said, “the butter’s bitter. If I bake a batch of batter, will my batter be bitter?” “Buy better butter,” Betty Botter bought better butter. “This butter’s better,” Betty Botter said. “So I’ll bake a batch of batter and my batter won’t be bitter.”
「better」と「bitter」の発音が似ているため、滑舌良く言うのがポイントです。
その他の早口言葉
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
“She sells seashells by the seashore.”
“How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?”
“Red lorry, yellow lorry.”
“I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!”
これらの早口言葉は、どれもチャレンジ精神をくすぐるようなものばかりです。ぜひ挑戦してみて、自分の発音や滑舌を向上させていきましょう!
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