{"id":21515,"date":"2015-01-01T14:01:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T13:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=21515"},"modified":"2017-10-23T13:57:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T11:57:20","slug":"pronunciation-practice-tongue-twisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/pronunciation-practice-tongue-twisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Pronunciation Practice: Tongue Twisters"},"content":{"rendered":"

A tongue twister, or un virelangue en fran\u00e7ais<\/strong>, is hard a hard to pronounce sentence, often used as a kind of game among children, but also used to clear up pronunciation problems. They are always specifically designed to be difficile de dire<\/strong> (hard to say), even for des locuteurs natifs<\/strong> (native speakers)! Just think of the last time you tried to finish \u201cpeter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers\u2026<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bien s\u00fbr<\/strong> (of course), French has its own virelangues<\/strong>, and just like their counterparts en anglais<\/strong> (in English), they tend to not really mean anything, but that\u2019s not why les gens essayer de les dire<\/strong> (people try to say them). They\u2019re fun because of the way they sound, and, more importantly, how hard it is to say them!<\/p>\n

Le fran\u00e7ais<\/strong> is not always the easiest language to pronounce for non-native speakers, and as such it\u2019s good to take any little boost you can find to help your pronunciation. So if you want to make sure you are articulating well and can string together those tough phon\u00e9tique fran\u00e7aise<\/strong> (French phonetics), try out des virelangues<\/strong> below!<\/p>\n

To start out, here\u2019s a very easy one that most everyone in France knows:<\/p>\n

Les chaussettes de l’archi-duchesse sont-elles s\u00e8ches, archi-s\u00e8ches ?<\/em><\/p>\n

Next up, is another well known virelangue<\/strong>, but one that is more difficult to say:<\/p>\n

Un chasseur sachant chasser sait chasser sans son chien.<\/em><\/p>\n

And one last virelangue<\/strong>, a very simple one, but one that the French have the hardest time saying:<\/p>\n

Les soldats se d\u00e9solidaris\u00e8rent-ils ?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

A tongue twister, or un virelangue en fran\u00e7ais, is hard a hard to pronounce sentence, often used as a kind of game among children, but also used to clear up pronunciation problems. They are always specifically designed to be difficile de dire (hard to say), even for des locuteurs natifs (native speakers)! Just think of…<\/p>\n

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