Friday, February 21, 2014

绕口令

raokouling is how you say "tongue twister" in Chinese, which I learned after wee how easy it was for my 8 year olds to say "toy boat" 10 times fast. I usually can't get past 3-4 times speaking as fast as possible. "Sally sells sea shells by the seashore" was very tricky. The sh- blend and s- sound are both used in Mandarin, however many dialects switch sh- for s- or don't pronounce sh- altogether--making Sally's story a multilingual mouth masher.

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