Man has been caring for the correctness and purity of his speech for a long time. Since then, as I understood, what power words have. Oratory was at all times considered real art. After all, only a highly educated and talented person is able to present his thoughts so that they are not only understood, but also accepted by the audience.
The time of compulsory study of rhetoric, unfortunately, has sunk into oblivion, but the ability to express itself clearly remains and will remain relevant. One of the problems that a huge number of people face is fuzzy speech with the ingestion of certain sounds, clumsy pronunciation of syllables and other distortions. You can cope with it by developing diction, which is difficult to help difficult phrases.
Not just for kids!
We are accustomed to thinking that little children are engaged in the endless repetition of memorized sentences, whose parents want them to pronounce all the sounds correctly. In fact, it’s worth practicing difficult-to-pronounce phrases at any age. It’s never too late to make your speech better.
It is known that the English king George VI stuttered terribly. He was not even considered as a contender for the throne. But when the throne unexpectedly passed to a shy young man, he had to struggle with his ailment (this story, incidentally, was told in the movie “The King Says”). And, according to scientists, one of the means of "treatment" used by the ruler was difficult to pronounce phrases. The list of such expressions is very diverse, it includes classic tongue twisters, difficult-to-pronounce words and names, scientific terminology, special exercises for the articulation apparatus.
Kids
So, let's start with the smallest ones. Difficult phrases for children are used to teach them to clearly pronounce all sounds in any combination of them. According to experts, to begin training for children should be with the simplest tongue twisters, in which the emphasis is on one sound: "Fields, field, flight." Only then can you gradually add more and more sounds: “From the sound of hoofs dust flies across the field.” The gradual complication of the spoken text will lead to the fact that the child will easily pronounce even the most intricate words.
To make the process even easier, you can hand a ball to the young speaker. He will toss him into the rhythm of his speech. But no matter how serious the topic of teaching young children might seem, one should not forget that, first of all, difficult-to-pronounce phrases for children are not so much an obligation as entertainment. It is in this form that classes should be presented. The following tongue twisters will amuse the child: “A lean, feeble Koschey drags a box of vegetables,” “A parrot said to a parrot:“ I am you, parrot, parrot. ” A parrot answers him: "A parrot, a parrot, a parrot!"
And for an older one?
As for adults, difficult-to-pronounce phrases can be a great way for them to not only pass the time merrily, competing, for example, in the correct pronunciation of a tongue twister, but also to significantly improve their oratory abilities.
You can start with classic phrases. For example, "Good beaver to beaver." Then we turn to the already more complex and long tongue twisters, which feature many repeating sounds, which usually knocks us down. Perhaps the most famous version of the complicated tongue twister is the famous “Once upon a time there were three Chinese”, which not everyone will be able to pronounce the first time, but after several trainings you will definitely learn.
Difficult words
Arguing further, it is worth noting that not only difficult-to-pronounce phrases can help to cope with the problems of diction. Words, long and often incomprehensible, will also be an excellent help in learning. Very few will be able to reproduce the word “beneficence” or the funny but vital “hopelessness” the first time.
There are a great many different language breaking phrases for those older. So, the "coup with a re-sub-reversal" also obeys not everyone. Special attention should be paid to words borrowed from other languages. What are the various Icelandic names like “Habnarfjordur” (this is the football club and the city where it is based) or “Hovyudborgarsvaidid” (this is the name of the part of the country in which Reykjavik is located). Even the sensational Eyyafyadlayokyudl (the same volcano whose eruption paralyzed European aviation several years ago) can help you cope with the pronunciation of not only complex, but also unusual words.
A bit of science
But there is another treasury in which the pearls are hidden - difficult-to-pronounce phrases. Examples of various scientific expressions rightfully take first place in their unpronounceability. One of the longest words in the Russian language is considered to be the adjective "X-ray electrocardiographic", slightly inferior to it "timber industry". But they are difficult to pronounce only because of the length: by breaking the word into its component parts, you can read it the first time.
The tongue twisters based on rather complicated words of a scientific form look funny: “Counterfeiters falsified falsifications but not falsified”, as a variation of the well-known tongue twister about ships. The phrase “Parallelogram of parallelogram, parallelogram, parallelogram and not parallelogram” was created on the same principle - it makes no sense, but you have to try to pronounce it.
Finally
It is clear that associating difficult-to-pronounce phrases exclusively with children is a very big mistake. They are used by professional actors, announcers, and politicians - all those whose work is related to oratory. But even if you don’t need to speak to a large number of people, tongue twisters will help make your speech clearer and more understandable, which, of course, will not go unnoticed by the interlocutors. Start now by repeating several times. For example, "Password" Eagle "" or "Package of popcorn"!