The English Tongue Twister Challenge | American English

A short instructional YouTube video by Hadar Shemesh introducing a Tongue Twister Challenge. She teaches the tongue twister "Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month," gives detailed pronunciation guidance (schwa, th, r, n→th assimilation, linking), encourages viewers to record and upload their attempts for feedback, and offers a randomly selected participant a live 30-minute one-on-one coaching session on February 20th.
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February 20th.
A 30-minute one-on-one training session with Hadar Shemesh, broadcast live on her YouTube channel.
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Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month. Month, month. And today I want to announce the Tongue Twister Challenge. Yay. Now, what is the Tongue Twister Challenge? Today I'm going to teach you a tongue twister. What I want you to do is I want you to practice the tongue twister with me and then put yourself on tape, upload it to YouTube and put it as a comment below this video. Everyone who's going to upload a video is going to receive a personal feedback from me. And on February 20th, I'm going to randomly pick one participant and offer him or her a 30 minute one on one training session with me that is going to be broadcasted live on my YouTube channel. Now, if you're about to make this video, but then you're thinking to yourself, oh my God, this is so embarrassing, I can't do this thing. I can't speak in English in public. Then know that everyone who's about to take this challenge is probably feeling the very same thing. We all face the same fears, you know that lack of confidence, self consciousness, listening to yourself from the outside, thinking, who is this person? This is not me. But you know what? It's about dealing with the struggle. It's about facing your fears and inhibitions. It's about confronting everything, everything that you're afraid of and putting yourself out there. Because only then you'll put in the work and only then you'll persist through it and achieve change and growth and improvement, especially in English. And when you do that, you'll be able to take the leap that you've always wanted. And I'm going to be here to coach you through that. So why don't you take on this opportunity and take on this challenge? Alright, so let's get started. Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month. Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month. Let's break it down. Elizabeth's schwa Li is And sit Z another schwa Beths. Then we have a ths so you want to stick the tongue out for the th. Make sure it's relaxed and the air passes between the tongue and teeth. And then you pull the tongue in quickly for the s F S F Beths. Beths Elizabeths. And then you move on to the B of birthday because we connect words. Br Elizabeth's br B that moves directly to the R. Then you bring the tongue up for the R. Make sure that the sides of the tongue touch the insides of the upper teeth and round your lips. Br Br and then stick the tongue out again for another th birth and then pull it in slightly for a d birth. Hold the air abruptly. Birthday. Open it to the a as in day Elizabeth's birthday is on. Then you connect these two really quick words. These are function words so they're reduced on then another th the third. These two words should be put together and leave your tongue out for both TH's. Look, the third, the third. I don't bring it back in the third. It takes too long. Okay, leave it out. Thurd. And then you pull it in for another r round your lips. Make sure that the tongue doesn't touch anything on the way in third, third, third and then end it with a d third and then another th third, third, another r, a z sound Thurs Day Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday and then you move on to two quick words of this of this. Notice that the f is actually pronounced as a v of this month here. The nth should be put together so place your tongue on the teeth for the n. Release it to a th month. Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month. Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month. Let me know in the comments below if you have any questions or hesitations or thoughts that you want to share with us. I can't wait to see you and I can't wait to hear your tongue twisters. Please share this video with your friends so it can get interesting and exciting and tongue twisting. Don't forget to subscribe and I'll see you next week in the next video. Bye.
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