Accent Expert Breaks Down Tongue Twisters in Different Accents | WIRED
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Dialect coach Erik Singer is back, this time to take a look at tongue twisters. We've all tried tongue twisters in our lives, and know how hard they can be! But "why" are they hard? What makes one group of words more difficult to speak fluidly than others? Erik explains why our tongues get so twisted up, and breaks down how different tongue twisters affect different people with different accents.
Ultrasound Tongue Twister footage courtesy of Professor Ian Wilson, CLR Phonetics Lab at the University of Aizu, Japan
Sagittal Section Diagram courtesy of Professor Daniel C. Hall, Linguistics & Department of English Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, N.S.
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I deeply appreciate how Erik Singer has been getting progressively scruffier.
It's CoronoWorld, we've *all* been getting progressively scruffier :D
I feel a little better about being a salon holdout. I'm so shaggy!
It suits him too!
aren't we all
@Tim Evans mood
His back must be aching with him carrying this channel all by himself and all.
Wired has a lot of other good stuff
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Frrr, the only reason I visit it
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He really needs his own channel!
MIT Scientists: This is the trickiest tongue twister in the English language.
Dialect Daddy: Hold my vowel diagram chart.
DIALECT DADDY 😭😭
Comment winner!!
He's literally all that comes up if you google that 😂😂😂😂
I would really like to know what their subject pool for that experiment was.
DIALECT DADDYYYY 😱😱 (it's true tho🤷🏻♀️)
Erik Singer: "The trickiest tongue twister to date"
Erik Singer: **says the phrase in three different speed levels with no problem**
it’s not that hard actually
Yeah that's the only one I had absolutely no problem with.
I had no problem with it at all. But that could be an accent thing possibly?
Dialect Daddy has mad skills.
@@emmataylor2748 What's your accent? I also had no problems with it in the slightest - south australian here.
The Lord of the Accents: Return of the King
Ironically the lord of the rings has no tongue to twist. The mouth of sauron, on the other hand...
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Erik Singer could literally talk about anything and I'd watch him.
Me too! He’s so charismatic.
What?
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If you ever ask Erik "What that mouth do?" he'll break out the quadrilateral and regale you with a twenty minute presentation.
I love this tongue twister so much I trained myself to say it flawlessly:
"Amidst the mists and fiercest frosts with barest wrists and stoutest boasts, he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts."
THAT'S MY FAVORITE TOO! I practiced it and presented it during my speech class in high school 😄
Oh funny! That's not so hard for me, but most of these are! Yours reminds me of iambic pentameter. The rhythm of it is very helpful.
I trained myself to do she sells sea shells because I have a lisp lmao
Is this supposed to be a hard tongue twister because it was easy. No offense
Aha, a Stephen King fan
This is so exciting! Thank you so much for having me! 🙌🏻 It was very hard with the Irish accent 😂
THE TRY CHANNEL REPRESENT XD
I was so happy to see you. Too bad they spelled your name wrong.
Try this!
Longtime fan of Facts and now Try, when you popped up I yelled, “Hey, I know her!” at my screen. Most random crossover to date, but I was excited 😆
A wild Clisare appears
Do an “S” sound.
Me: making snake jazz for the next hour.
tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts
ss sS sS SS ssss ss ssss
snazz
Supes shook by the fleekness 🤣
@@mushin111 is it bad that I sat down and read your snake jazz score aloud? Just me in front of my computer squinting at your comment and hissing
he needs to start a podcast or something, I could listen to him talk forever
yes omg that would be so good
I feel like Accent Expert Reads Thirsty Comments should be the next video 😏
YES
In different accents
Yesssss Daddy dialect!!!
Seconded
Pdavuff please
I’m a simple person. I see Erik’s face and I click.
I thought you were Random Person
Chris Sosa straight fire, get em
We are blessed to live in a timeline where even during quarantine WIRED provides us with more incredible Erik Singer content!
J B I still need more Erik. I always need more Erik.
The man who started a UA-cam genre.
My favorite tongue twister is rather simple but really hard to say:
"Irish wristwatch"
Give it a try.
iwish wwistwatch
The more I say it the more I put on a Northern Irish accent.
Ey-rish ristwetch!
Irish wristwatch, swiss wristwatch
ooh that's a good one! Much harder than the curd pulled cod one for me!
Erik makes me want to study linguistics. it's such an interesting subject. Masterclass needs to recruit him for classes
Do ittttt❤️
this is more specifically phonetics
Madeleine H but phonetics = fun
It's phonology.
RaymondHng we’re talking about accents here which are under the umbrella of language. Phonetics is what we’re talking about here. It’s under the umbrella of phonology.
I'm 99% here for the brilliance...a strong 1% here for the biceps.
Simp
You're not alone lmao
@@jonahs92 girls can't simp you simp
@@crunchyoats1862 Not true. Women simp, too.
I’m the reverse percentages 🌚
I MISSED YOU ERIK. YOUR LOCKDOWN BEARD LOCKS INCREDIBLE. YOU’RE MY HERO
MIT: "We made the hardest tongue twister in the English langua-"
Erik Singer: "The tongue twister is as follows: ..." *says it three times*
My neighbor must think I'm having a stroke right now
The comment section proves that women just can't resist a cunning linguist
True, although most men who believe themselves to be cunning linguists are really just master debaters.
I liked both comments. LOL
Amen 🙏🏻
As a bi female about to go into italian in uni this is really reassuring😄
they just want a man with a strong tongue
If wired just turned into Eric Singer time, I'd watch it all day.
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It only took 4 minutes and 43 seconds to hear the word “diphthongs”
"You got a triphthong for me babe? Awww yeaaahhh... what's that? A quadrophthong? Oooh, you're KINKY!"
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I'm honestly shocked at how much the advice in these videos can help to improve ones ability to talk differently. In my head language was always kind of ethereal and mysterious.. But now I realize that's language is just as much of a science as chemistry.
It’s still pretty magical despite the physical process.
@@MadMax22 it's alchemy :D
He looks like Magneto and Glenn Howerton and sounds like a supportive 4th Grade teacher who doesn’t get paid enough and gives gold stars or smarties to the kids on the last Friday of the month because they deserve it, gosh dang it.
I adore this man.
Eminently crushable
Meanwhile I can't say "rural" one time slowly 😂
SAME! it's the one word I've had problems with my whole life.
rur-rul... roo-rul... But somehow, I can say "mirror" effortlessly. 😅
I can’t say brewery correctly to save my life.
Same
If Eric Singer and Amy Walker had a baby it would speak the language of Gods
I ship it
Would the baby grow up to be able to walk and sing at the same time?
@@elenir234 **eyeroll**
@@DarlingMissDarling sorry I didn't mean for it to come off so pretentious 😣 I'm just passionate about linguistics and respect Erik's professional and knowledge.
and it would be named Amyric Singerwalker
Rural is actually one of my favorite words because it starts off sounding like a stalled car, and the more you try to enunciate the worse it sounds
Haha I just tried it and you're not lying.
I hated that word all my life. It's a simple five letter word that makes zero sense pronunciation-wise.
The Rural Juror
@@car3ss The Rural Juror Ruler. I can never pronounce these right. I always end up rolling either the first r or the second or just replacing r with l. Nightmare! Ends up like r and l crashed into each other.
@@car3ss I will never forget you rural juror
This was fascinating! Have you ever worked with beatboxers? I think it would be super cool to hear a linguist/voice coach go into beatboxer techniques.
I don't see how the "hardest tongue twister ever" comes even close to The sixth sick Sheikh's sixth sheep's sick. I think those MIT researchers just didn't interview any actors.
just the word “sixth” itself is a nightmare for a non-native speaker honestly
I've had a huge problem with the word "something" for the longest time... and sixth.
I guess it's just my accent, but that 'hardest' one didn't even seem like a tongue twister for me...
@@elocinaqui24 I'm a native speaker and sixth is still a nightmare
@@GameFreak7744 Same. Might be easier than usual in my Minnesota accent.
Is there a language class can sign up for, with him teaching? I don't want to better my accents, I just want to hear him teach.
Yep! You can visit his website www.eriksinger.com. He has pre-recorded classes available. :-)
I'm surprised Masterclass hasn't snapped him up
@@dialectcoachesadmin2494 Thank youuu!
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ERIC SINGER IS BACK !!!! BACK AGAIN!!
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It was too long since last his video!
WHO IS THE EDITOR THAT GETS TO JUST LOOK AT HOURS OF FOOTAGE OF THIS HANDSOME BRILLIANT FACE
and the arm tattoo too
mit : this is the hardest tongue twister
erik: you wanna see some real speed
Erik has exactly the kind of book collection I hoped Erik had.
Erik Singer is the reason I'm going into linguistics. Love this guy.
You won't regret it. It was one of my two majors and it's touched so much of my life. We use speech and writing almost every minute of every day, and diving deeply into how it all works will be very rewarding for you. Have fun!
him: *describes k and s sounds"
me, an intellectual: hold my hydroflask
sksksksksksk
My favorite tongue-twister is in French: "J'ai vu six cents Suisses suçant six cents six saucisses dont six en sauce et six cents sans sauce."
Some of their tongue-twisters are a whole saga: "C'est l'évadé du Nevada qui dévalait dans la vallée, dans la vallée du Nevada, qu'il dévalait pour s'évader, sur un vilain vélo volé, qu'il a volé dans une villa, et le valet qui fut volé vit l'évadé du Nevada qui dévalait dans la vallée, dans la vallée du Nevada, qu'il dévalait pour s'évader sur un vilain vélo volé."
It’s weird Pad Kid is actually really easy for me.
Same. It didn't even feel like a tongue twister
Same
Same
I think it could be due to the way of producing vowels, maybe for accent or easeness in speach. If your vowels are produced rather close to one another, then the difference in patterns would be lesser than in others, making it easier for you.
Seriously same. It works so well as like, a little beatboxing beat.
Our favourite Wired contributer!!!! (my fav tongue twister is "sju sjösjuka sjömän sköttes av sju sköna sjuksköterskor" cos it makes english speakers just kind of blink at you in horror!)
bless you
Mine too!
I didn't know that one! I know it as "Sju sjösjuka sjömän sköljer stjärten i sjön.”
Erik Singer - that’s the version my husband likes to trip me up with, but my friends tend to use the OP’s version (I’m American living in Sweden).
Me, a native English speaker: *blinking in horror trying to figure out how to even begin that sentence.*
I always thought "Toy Boat" was difficult for absolutely everybody, but my wife, who speaks perfect Canadian American English, has no trouble with it. Because her other first language is French. French requires much more complex and rapid shifts among closely related vowels. The fact that she and her friends also will switch back and forth between correctly accented French and English within sentences gives them even more practice with precise, quick vowel changes.
i’m shamelessly in love with this man
i’m a native spanish speaker and i can’t roll my Rs. “rápido ruedan los carros cargados de azúcar al ferrocarril” is a nightmare for me lmao
Sofia Bendana I speak Italian and can’t roll Rs “tigre contro tigre “ “orrore orrore un ramarro verde su un muro marrone” I feel your pain✌️😹
Try Serbian: Na vrh brda vrba mrda.
I’m Latino and I can roll my “rr’s” but I really have to focus. If I’m just speaking, they sound funny. My cousins make fun of me because “arroz” sounds like “adoz”.
@@freycolombo2336 same here, ti capisco 😂
It's funny because when I try to roll my Rs I can't do it, but when I don't think about it and just talk it happens and I notice it. After noticing I try to replicate it, and pretty much always fail. My brain is stupid.
Firstly, I absolutely adore Erik Singer videos, thanks for another interesting and educational 16 minutes!
Secondly, expanding on the topic of tricky sound sequences, in Russian we have a really tricky combination "жр", which is a zh sound (like in "usual") followed by a hard r. It is not really common but it's a nightmare to say quickly without a pause. I tried to compose a little something here for you:
Ржавый жрец Ржига ржëт и жрëт рожь
Sounds something like "Rzhaviy zhrets rzhiga rzhyot i zhryot rozh" and translates roughly to "A rusty priest Rzhiga (that's just a surname) laughs and eats rye"
The "zhr" and "rzh" sounds sound very nice, but saying both together is a little trickier.
@Jenni Ojibwe you're welcome :)
whenever there's an erik singer upload the comments on his videos have me howling. we're all the same tbh we love u erik
This guy really needs his own channel. He's so good and is a natural at this.
Don't lie, you were trying all the tongue twisters and letter sounds
I mean why would I lie they are fun little challenges
Why lie isn't this what it's for
That was kinda the point
Of course I was trying. And I was doing pretty good until the people messing up made me mess up
I still to this day can't even say "proper copper coffee pot".
I picture Erik Singer repeating tongue twisters over and over again to calm himself down when he's nervous.
Why not try one in Spanish next time: Tres tristes tigres tragaban trigo en un trigal, en tres tristes trastos, tragaban trigo, tres tristes tigres ;-)
I like some of the other videos in this channel, but tbh I am here only for this guy. I just adore him. Keep talking, dude... please, keep talking.
My husband just walked into the room and asked why I was mumbling nonsensical sounds over and over.
His bookshelf is very interesting xD Scandinavian comfort food lol
Hahahahahaha
Swedish Christmas Table
I keep getting distracted by the Genki books (because I've been studying to be a Japanese translator)
Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology!
Yeah, like most books are what you'd expect him to have, about speech, sounds, dialects, and languange... but then there are three books about Swedish/Scandinavian food and one book about Norse mythology. Curious!
Yes. This. More of him please.
this took a lot longer than 16 minutes cause i kept pausing to try and do every twister XD
‘toy boat’ being really easy for me made me realise how unusual the south wales accent is haha
South African here who didn't do too bad with the Bossy Tommy bit.
Thanks for another great video.
Big fan of Eric Singer!
I’m a simple person: I see “Accent...” ad I press play
did anyone else notice him saying "englis" at 13:24 - he accidentally created another tongue twister!
I appreciate very much how he always has this pleasantly neutral expression on his face but then he has this little tiny smile sometimes
NOW I CAN'T SPEAK
This would have been so useful for my linguistics classes. This video is amazing, I could watch all day.
He teaches like a Speech Language Pathologist. I learned all this in my Masters and bachelors coursework. Good job dialect coach.
I've found the trick to these is to think musically. If I can slot the sounds into a rhythm things get a ton easier, especially if I allow a beat between words or sections.
Y'all never tried "Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid"
For me personally, it's a nightmare of a German tongue twister.
Dicke Nichten dichten im dichten Fichtendickicht, im dichten Fichtendickicht dichten dicke Nichten 😉
Omg they are impossible
@@dinimueter9961 I know it like that:
Tief im dichten Fichtendickicht
picken dicke Finken tüchtig!
(There is just SO MUCH that can go horribly wrong and vulgar when pronouncing it...)
I also like "Zwanzk zkwetschte Zwetschkn und zwanzk zkwetschte Zwetschkn san viazk zkwetschte Zwetschkn" (yes that's German too :D) but I can definitely never get the Blaukraut one right...NEVER!
Bernhard Slawik ah, den kenn ich gar nicht😄 jaa das ist so
I'm glad the Eric Singer channel uploaded again.
Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology amongst the books,...of course, with that tattoo.
Am I the only one who couldn't do any of the other tongue twisters, except had no problem at all with the MIT supposedly hardest ever?
I love Erik Singer's videos! They are always so educational and entertaining, and always presented really cleanly, clearly and professionally. Thank you for making these!
I wanna know why there is Scandinavian Comfort foods on your shelf and Swedish Christmas table, need answers.
Omg, I have that comfort foods book. Great recipes in there 😉
He’s Scandinavian by background and was fed this comfort food when he was a child by his Swedish grandma (mormor)?
This is a remarkable video. I find that knowing the backstory to a sentence really helps, because Pad Kid Poured Curd Pulled Cod is easy for a Singaporean. It's about a Thai kid working in a hawker center. He was taking a lunch break with some curd rice (it's an Indian tradition where you pour your raita onto your rice and mix it to eat) before going back to his fish noodle making job.
Imagine getting to travel around the world with Erik Singer and Susie Dent. How rich, engaging, soft and, above all, gracious that education would be.
So what makes "Irish wristwatch" so hard to say is a combination of the American "r" and the back and forth movement of "sh" to "st" to "w"?
'Irish wristwatch' is one of my favourites. Generally you don't have to ask people to say it 3 times fast, they'll slip on the very first try.
It's one of my favorites, too. I was introduced to it on the internet with the full intro being "congrats! You are now aware you cannot say 'Irish wristwatch'". At the time, it was a correct statement but I practiced enough that it's pretty easy to say now and it makes me feel really powerful because of that
@@chestersnap kindred spirit!
You're going between post-alveolar ('sh'), and alveolar ('s') and back again ('tch'). Plus, the bunched tongue for 'r' makes you want to produce an 's' that sounds retracted (this is why a lot of people say something like 'shtraight' and 'shtring' instead of 'straight' and 'string' in every day speech). Finally, you're switching up a bunch of different manners of constriction: there's a fricative ('sh'), a fricative + stop ('st') and a stop + fricative which is also called an affricate ('tch'). So basically yes-- alternating the place and manner of constriction between the tongue and the hard palate and throwing some 'r's in between.
ChesterSnap same!
As someone with a BA in English Lang and lit but who can’t afford to do a masters yet, I friggin love Erik’s videos
Literature or more Linguistics?
me notyou42 probs linguistics, I love dialects and phonology/phonetics 😅
15:12 - How is no one talking about how Kamal KILLED 'pad kid poured curd pulled cod' 🤣🤣🤣💯
he must be the most articulate person on the planet
I feel my IQ increase a couple of points just by watching this video lol He makes all this educational stuff sound so riveting.
OMG Clisare!!! My Wired universe and TRY universe just came together! 💜🤩
I was only listening and the second I heard her voice, my head snapped up!
Kimberly G. Your mind’s gonna _explode_ when you see Dermot’s ad for Jif®!
@@Cadrid What?!?! Link! Link! Furmot willingly associating with anything peanut butter is a harbinger of the apocalypse.
Good catch! They’ve listed her name as Claire.
The one that was supposedly the "most difficult tongue twister" was kind of the easiest one for me? I'm Irish, I did find a good few others ones pretty difficult tho 😊
I feel like every time I watch something like this I have a newfound appreciation for deaf people who have managed to learn how to speak. It's so complicated! And they manage without any auditory feedback!
Good point. Maybe Eric will do a video about this some day?
Oh how I missed this man!
Wooo, look at Erik's glorious beard!
This what I was looking for seriously after watching almost thousands of videos I found your videos can't explain 😭 my happiness
I had way too much fun laughing at myself failing these tongue twisters, and the accent practice sentences were interesting. Awesome video with Mr. Singer as always!
oooh finally this guy again
This kinda gives me anxiety. Now I feel like speaking is a super complicated system that I felt better not knowing I was engaged in😂
Linguistic major here! Love this, he goes over all lot of information while keeping it still relatable and understandable to someone who doesn't know the technical terms
How to beatbox 11 different genres:
5:30 dubstep
6:51 garage
7:08 hip hop
8:36 rap
11:00 electro
10:10 folk
13:11 glitch
14:31 drum & bass
15:00 house
15:12 bhangra
15:26 gabba
Was that Clisare? Now I need Try Channel Tries Tongue Twisters!
I was happily surprised to see her!
I see Erik, I click like.
The "hardest" twister was surprisingly easy for me and I a.) have a speech impediment, b.) Have hearing loss that affects how I understood and speak things, and c.) Have big front teeth and TMJ so speaking fast can mess up my words. Yet somehow this was easy.
If only one UA-camr ever remained I hope it's this man
When saying toy boat i turn British for some reason-
I loved how that cute American guy trying to do RP ended up turning South Asian.
Me tooo
Ok but show him mess up on these tongue twisters Mr perfectly spoken!! 😂
Erik needs to start a UA-cam channel. I could watch him talk about talking all day.
My favorite younger twister is
Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie
He didn’t address the great “Peter Piper” tounge twister
Him owning a wacom tablet is my favorite energy
As I am not a native english speaker, but have another English speaking channel, this video (and all the other videos he made for this channel) are very helpful.
My favorite tongue twister is one my brother came up with:
I’ve got forty four cardboard star wars dart boards in my car port, they’re important to me.
I like it not because it’s hard but just because the sentence is funny to me, and even though I have a generalized American accent, I literally cannot say it without a thick southern accent lmao