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Tongue-breaker ;) Sun Apr 10, 2005 11:26 am  Tongue-breaker ;)
 

Read it aloud Smile

The English Language

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough and through.
Well don't! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard but sounds like bird.
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead,
For goodness sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth as in mother
Nor both in bother, nor broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear, for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose-
Just look them up- and goose and choose
And cork and work and card and ward
And font and front and word and sword
And do and go, then thwart and cart,
Come, come! I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful language? Why man alive!
I learned to speak it when I was five.
And yet to write it, the more I tried,
I hadn't learned it at fifty-five.

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Tongue-twister Mon Apr 11, 2005 13:45 pm  Tongue-twister
 

It isn't a tongue-twister at all! Have you tried to say anything in Polish, Mihal? Wink That's a tongue-twister for me! Very Happy
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Tongue-breaker ;) Mon Apr 11, 2005 18:33 pm  Tongue-breaker ;)
 

I was sipposed to learn it by heart at my phonetic class. It was terrible, but the whole group did it!!! And we`re proud of ourselves that we can read it by heart very quickly!!!
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Tongue-breaker ;) Mon Apr 11, 2005 22:52 pm  Tongue-breaker ;)
 

c'mon Karlos Smile polish is very easy Razz

Gratulations Jailbird, that's exactly what i intend to do Smile
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Tongue-breaker ;) Thu Apr 14, 2005 17:38 pm  Tongue-breaker ;)
 

keep practising))) You`ll like it for sure))
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