Tongue Twisters

[tarokun]

This is more for comedy and fun than for practical purposes: But how about a lesson on Japanese tongue twisters like this one "how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood" for english?

[Bueller_007]

This is more for comedy and fun than for practical purposes: But how about a lesson on Japanese tongue twisters like this one "how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood" for english?

The most famous Japanese tongue-twister:
東京特許許可局
(とうきょうとっきょきょかきょく)
It's fictitious, but it means "Tokyo Patent Office". There are lots of variations.
If your Japanese is up to par, try here for more:
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A9% ... 0%E8%91%89

[The Frankensteiner]

Could you write that in romanji so I could try it?

[arancarlisle]

This is a GREAT lesson idea. This is exactly the type of thing we need to have audio of in order to learn correctly.

Tongue twisters aren't just for laughs either. In English at least, they are taken pretty seriously as a way to teach proper enunciation and to find out if a school kid has a particular speech problem that need to be addressed.

For example, I remember one that was designed to find out if any kids added an "r" to "wash": While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.

In some parts of the US, people will actually read this as "waRsh WaRshington's windows".