Practice easy and fun English tongue twisters to improve pronunciation, fluency, and speaking confidence. Perfect for ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Tongue twisters are a brain-bending, mind-boggling, nail-biting test of your articulation skills. A cheeky alliteration here, a slippery consonant there, or even a tooth-chattering dental fricative ...

As adults, it’s easy to forget how complicated speech really is, especially when you’re first learning it. Not only do small children have to figure out things like grammar and vocabulary but they’ve ...

Some conversations are forgotten as soon as they are over, while other exchanges may leave lasting imprints. Researchers want to understand why and how listeners remember some spoken utterances more ...

Those seven silver snakes should step to the side. A nonsense string of words devised by MIT researchers investigating speech errors and brain functions proved so difficult that no test subjects could ...

Stop what you are doing and try saying this 10 times fast: “pad kid poured curd pulled cod.” Feeling tongue tied? You should. You just tried what might be one of the trickiest tongue twisters ever ...

Dialect coach Erik Singer is back, this time to take a look at tongue twisters. We've all tried tongue twisters in our lives, and know how hard they can be! But "why" are they hard? What makes one ...

Some conversations are forgotten as soon as they are over, while other exchanges may leave lasting imprints. Researchers want to understand why and how listeners remember some spoken utterances more ...