The longest tongue twister “Liguria” - full version with text and accents

If you decide to develop your diction, then you have probably found the longest tongue twister in the world, “Liguria”. What is it? Many have probably heard about this text many times, but do not know what it is. In fact, there is nothing special here, and the full version of the text of “Liguria” presented below, with accents, consists entirely of many other tongue twisters. The result is excellent training material. It is believed that if you pronounce it at least once every day, your diction will become much clearer and better. So let's quickly look at the full version of the tongue twister, get acquainted with its difficult parts and find out how best to approach working with this format.

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Features of "Liguria"

In fact, “Liguria” is not just the most complex tongue twister. This is a real text, consisting of 434 words. What’s interesting is that the world’s largest tongue twister essentially acts as a kind of mosaic canvas or puzzle, consisting of many of the most familiar and ordinary, not too long tongue twisters about the traffic controller and other characters. The entire combination of “Liguria” consists of 40 popular and not so popular idioms.

About the benefits of tongue twisters

Tongue twisters (pure twisters) are works of folk art, funny phrases and rhymes invented by people in order to improve articulation and correct individual diction defects. They consist of a certain number of words with many of the same sounds, which makes them difficult to pronounce.

The phrases found in the tongue twister “Liguria” are inconvenient to pronounce, therefore they are good training for the articulatory apparatus, forcing the speech organs to work hard, improving their functions. The Liguria tongue twister will help you practice so that after it even the most complex text will come out of your mouth easily and freely, every sound will be heard, which means your pronunciation will significantly improve.

Tongue twister "Liguria" - full text version

Below is the entire text of the Ligurian tongue twister. It is very long and quite complex. It can be extremely difficult to cope with it the first time, since accents still play an important role here.

On Thursday the fourth at four and a quarter o'clock the Ligurian traffic controller was regulating in Liguria, but thirty-three ships tacked, tacked, but never tacked. And then he recorded the protocol about the protocol as a protocol. As an interviewer, an interviewed Ligurian regulator Rechisto, but he didn’t cleanly reported, but he didn’t bargained, but so he was infected about the warm -up weather that, so that the incident does not become a condemni, the Ligurian regulator is accumulated in the unconstitutional Constantinople, where the crested Khokhokhokykhovyu chokhokhotsyk shouted to Turk which is roughly smoked with a pipe:

Don’t smoke a pipe, Turk,
you’d better buy a pile of peaks, you’d better buy a pile of peaks, otherwise a bomber from Brandenburg will come and bombard you with bombs because someone black-nosed dug up half his yard with his snout, dug up and dug up.
But in fact, the Turk was not in business, and Clara the King was sneaking to the chest at that time, while Karl was stealing corals from Clara, for which Clara stole the clarinet from Karl. And then in the yard of Varvara, the tar widow, two of these thieves were stealing firewood. But it’s a sin - not laughter - not to put it in a nut: about Clara and Karl in the darkness, all the crayfish were making noise in a fight - so the thieves had no time for the bombardier, and no time for the tar widow, and no time for the tar children. But the angry widow put the firewood into the barn: one firewood, two firewood, three firewood - all the firewood could not fit, and two woodcutters, two woodcutters and a woodcutter for the emotional Varvara, expelled the firewood across the width of the yard back to the wood yard, where the heron wasted away, the heron withered, the heron died.

The heron's chick clung tenaciously to the chain; well done against the sheep, and against the well done the sheep itself, to which Senya carries hay in a sleigh, then Senka carries Sonya and Sanka on a sled: sleigh-jump, Senka-on the side, Sonya-on the forehead, everything-into the snowdrift, and Sashka is just a bump in the head knocked him down, then Sasha went along the highway, Sasha found Sasha on the highway.

Accents in the Ligurian tongue twister

In order for the longest tongue twister “Liguria” to benefit you and become an excellent help for the development of the articulatory apparatus, it is very important to read it correctly. After all, it’s not enough to clearly and distinctly say “on Thursday the fourth” or about how ships maneuvered somewhere there. It is important to understand the meaning and essence of the text from the tongue twisters, and here you cannot do without some explanations. In addition, such comments will make your speech more correct and competent. After all, today many people distort accents.

So here are some important notes about accent placement in Liguria:

• “Sasha” - emphasis on the second vowel, since we are not talking about a name, but about a pillow with a scent to repel moths;
• In the words “sergeant” and “captain”, which denote military ranks, the emphasis is on the first syllable;
• In the phrase “tar widow” the emphasis is also on the first vowel.

On a note! In any word with the letter “E” the emphasis is always placed on it.

It is also worth noting that the stress falls on the first syllable in the word “creeped”, but when pronouncing the name of the city “Barndenburg”, the emphasis should be shifted to the sound “u”, since according to the rules of the Russian language this word is read in this way. The “y” is also emphasized when denoting Liguria itself.

Note! Liguria is not only the name of the proposed text for the development of diction, but also the region of Italy.

When working on a long tongue twister, pay attention to the reading of the word “sexton”. Here the emphasis is on the very last sound.

When you read Liguria, read the names correctly. Here you may have a hitch with the words “Frola, Frolu.” It is worth mentioning right away that the interpretation of the correct pronunciation of this name in various sources may differ from each other. But don't forget the rules and their exceptions. In the names Peter, Frol, Lev, the emphasis is on the last syllable.

Of course, such a big tongue twister about Liguria, as it is commonly called, will not be “given” to you just like that. After all, some of the words in it are outdated; today they are practically not found in our everyday life - hence the main difficulties.

Difficult tongue twisters for hard sonorant sounds and the sound “K”

Serious difficulties in articulating sonorant sounds that do not have paired voiceless consonants, replacing some sounds with others or mixing them should be corrected with the help of speech therapy massage and classes with a speech therapist. And for more correct-sounding speech, training with large and complex tongue twisters is quite suitable:

1. There is no point in comprehending the meaning of the unintelligible with meaningless thoughts.
2. In the shallows we lazily caught burbot, and you exchanged the burbot for tench, didn’t you ask me so kindly for love, and beckoned me into the mists of the estuary?
3. Deftly maneuvering in otolaryngology, the otolaryngologist doctor easily treated chronic pharyngitis.
4. The crab catcher stole the crab from the crab catcher very cleverly. The theft crab ran away and stole itself from them.
5. The hooligan captain was drunk and put the talisman in his pocket. A pelican and a toucan stole the talisman from the pocket of the hooligan captain.

How to work with the text of the tongue twister “Liguria”

If you decide to download “Liguria” and work on the text, then you should organize your work correctly. It is believed that with desire, some effort and systematic work, you can memorize the text about the Ligurian traffic controller in just 7 days. Here's a little plan:

1. Read the text slowly for 15 minutes, trying to understand the essence. Read each word clearly and correctly, placing all accents correctly.
2. Read again using the same principle, but increase the pace a little.
3. Work for at least 15-30 minutes. Learn the first 15 lines by heart. Read everything else quickly.
4. Repeat what you have learned. Add 15 more lines. Quickly read everything else within half an hour.
5. Speak out everything you have learned by heart. Add the next 15 lines. Then work according to the principle of the previous days.
6. Repeat 45 lines. Complete the remaining text. Repeat all phrases from memory for 30 minutes.
7. Speak the entire memorized text from the tongue twisters by heart several times. The pace should be fast and the pronunciation should be clear. Don't forget about the correct placement of accents.

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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Ligurian tongue twister

I don’t know for sure whether this is a joke, happily picked up by TV channels, or a professional text for diction training, but the spectacle is enchanting.

Morning news anchor of the First Baltic Channel Elena Solomina.

Presenter of ProFashion Life on the First Municipal Channel of the city of Donetsk Victoria Stepanova.

The need to create educational video and audio materials places increased demands on the quality of speech. Since my diction is far from ideal, I wondered how to improve my diction and speech? Strictly speaking, there is no need to guess, since it is known that you can improve diction and clarity of speech with the help of tongue twisters. I found a good example on YouTube - the tongue twister “Liguria” performed by Svetlana Tulskaya.

The tongue twister is quite long - even speaking it just once a day, you can make significant progress within a month. Copy the text of the tongue twister to your computer and start studying.

Video with correct pronunciation

To understand how to correctly pronounce the tongue twister "Liguria", watch the video. In the video, famous presenters and announcers recite this poem by heart. TV presenter Elena Solomina and Gabriela Antocel masterfully handle the longest patter.

All you have to do is put in a little effort and persistence, and you will be able to learn the original tongue twister “Liguria”. The tongue twister is designed for teenage children and adults. It is better for kids to start learning simpler rhymes, gradually increasing their complexity. If your child thinks figuratively from early childhood, he can easily remember a simple rhyme.

Text of the tongue twister "Liguria"

On Thursday the fourth at four and a quarter o'clock, the Ligurian traffic controller was regulating in Liguria, but thirty-three ships tacked, tacked, but never got caught, and then the protocol about the protocol was recorded as a protocol, as the interviewed Ligurian traffic controller eloquently, but not purely, reported, yes did not complete the report, did not complete the report, and reported so much about the wet weather that, so that the incident did not become a contender for a judicial precedent, the Ligurian traffic controller acclimatized in unconstitutional Constantinople, where the tufted laughter laughed and shouted to the Turk, who was blackly stoned with a pipe: don’t smoke, Turk, pipe, buy a better one a pile of peaks, it’s better to buy a pile of peaks, otherwise a bombardier from Brandenburg will come and bombard him with bombs because some black-snouted guy dug up half his yard with his snout, dug up and dug up; but in fact the Turk was not in business, and Klara was sneaking to the stall at that time, while Karl was stealing corals from Klara, for which Klara stole the clarinet from Karl, and then in the yard of the tar widow Varvara, these two thieves stole firewood ; but it’s a sin - not laughter - not to put it in a nut: about Clara and Karl in the darkness, all the crayfish made noise in a fight - so the thieves had no time for the bombardier, and no time for the tar widow, and no time for the tar children; but the angry widow put the firewood into the barn: once firewood, two firewood, three firewood - all the firewood could not fit, and two woodcutters, two woodsplitters, and a woodcutter, for the emotional Varvara, expelled the wood across the width of the yard back to the wood yard, where the heron wasted away, the heron withered, the heron died; the heron's chick clung tenaciously to the chain; well done against the sheep, and against the good man the sheep itself, to which Senya carries hay in a sleigh, then carries Senka Sonya and Sanka on a sled: sleigh-jump, Senka-to the side, Sonya-to the forehead, everything-to the snowdrift, and Sashka is just a bump in the head knocked him down, then Sasha went along the highway, Sasha found Sasha on the highway; Sonya - Sashka’s friend was walking along the highway and sucking a dryer, and besides, Sonya the turntable also had three cheesecakes in her mouth - exactly like a honey cake, but she had no time for a honey cake - Sonya, with cheesecakes in her mouth, would over-mix the sexton, - over-mix: it buzzes like ground beetle, buzzing and spinning: was at Frol's - Frol lied to Lavra, will go to Lavra to Frol Lavra will lie, that - the sergeant with the sergeant, the captain with the captain, that the snake has a snake, and the hedgehog has a hedgehog, and he has a high-ranking the guest took away the cane, and soon again the five children ate five honey mushrooms and half a quarter of a quadruple of lentils without a wormhole, and one thousand six hundred and sixty-six pies with cottage cheese from curdled milk whey - about all of this, around the bell the bells were ringing, so much so that even Konstantin, a Salzburg prospect, stated from under an armored personnel carrier: just as you cannot ring all the bells, you cannot re-ring all the bells, so you cannot repeat all the tongue twisters, you cannot repeat them too quickly; but trying is not torture.

Additional exercises

Demosthenes is considered one of the most famous orators of the ancient world (384-322 BC). He managed to achieve outstanding results despite the fact that since childhood he suffered from tongue-tied speech (slurred speech), had a weak voice and short breathing. Plus to this whole set, Demosthenes had a habit of twitching his shoulder. To learn to pronounce words clearly, he made speeches with stones in his mouth. A similar method of speech training is still used today.

• Read the tongue twisters by putting a few nuts in your mouth.
• You can read tongue twisters while holding a wine cork or an ordinary pencil between your teeth.
• Try to pronounce the words as clearly as possible. To evaluate the quality of pronunciation, record the sound on a computer or voice recorder and then listen to it. It will be possible to compare speech intelligibility on the first day of class and after a certain period of time, for example two weeks.

They say that such exercises can significantly improve speech diction in a short time. Let's check.

Complex tongue twisters starting with “R”

A defect in the pronunciation of the letter “R” is the most common among children and even adults. If you want to say “fish” instead of “herring,” then here are some of the most difficult tongue twisters in the world starting with “R”:

1. Three hundred tourists cracked cod three hundred and thirty times around the fire. In the fire pit, after the tourists, cod scales cracked three hundred and thirty times.
2. In the hail, swallowing grapes, the abbot wandered along the Arbat. Hail fell on the grapes, and the abbot fell on the Arbat.
3. The speaker-demonstrator was not allowed into the transport with banners. The speaker-demonstrator with banners set off on the road on an excavator.
4. The chlorine conductor and chromolithograph characterize rickets by fragility of cartilage and chronic chromosomal hara-kiri.
5. The rat Larisa ate enough rice, and the rabbit Kondrat conquered Ararat.