Tongue Twister Practice: There Was A Minimum Of Cinnamon...

19 Dec 2021 · 2 min

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A short spoken practice session by Hadar Shemesh guiding listeners through a tongue twister: "There was a minimum of cinnamon in the aluminum pan." The instructor breaks down consonant and vowel sounds (schwa, /m/, /n/, /z/), models pronunciation (including variants like ‘aluminium’), cues repetition (three times fast), and closes with breath work and encouragement.

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Hey, everyone, it's practice time and today we're going to practice the tongue twister. There was a minimum of cinnamon in the aluminum pan. There was a. There was schwa, shwa, w, zuh. Connect the Z sound to the next vowel. There was minimum. Minimum an M sound. And e, as in sit, me, n, schwa, mum, schwa. So the vowels are the same. There was a minimum of cinnamon in the aluminum. Aluminum. Aluminum. Some people may say aluminium, some people may say aluminium, but we use aluminum pan. It rhymes. There was a minimum of cinnamon in the aluminum pan. Schwa, luminum pan. There was a minimum of cinnamon in the aluminum pan. Three times fast. There was a minimum of cinnamon in the aluminum pan. There was a minimum of cinnamon in the aluminum pan. There was a minimum of cinnamon in the aluminum pan. Take a deep breath. Breathe out. Very good. Very, very good job. I'll see you in the next practice.