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 group of words more difficult to speak fluidly than others? Erik explains why our tongues get so twisted up, and breaks down how different tongue twisters affect different people with different accents.
Ultrasound Tongue Twister footage courtesy of Professor Ian Wilson, CLR Phonetics Lab at the University of Aizu, Japan
Sagittal Section Diagram courtesy of Professor Daniel C. Hall, Linguistics & Department of English Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, N.S.
Thank you for all our tongue twister participants!
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Larry Chan
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Nichole Holze
Alina Peng
Sarah Jack
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Bob Wendland
Anushka Conway
Maxine Jones
Jordan Trafford
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Brooke Henzell
Tim Mills
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Accent Expert Breaks Down Tongue Twisters in Different Accents | WIRED
CyborgSlayerNila
July 16, 2020 at 8:56 pm
Any TRY fans smiled when Clare came on?
Siifr
July 16, 2020 at 9:02 pm
Our lord and savior Erik Singer has returned
Lock Wyn
July 16, 2020 at 9:02 pm
It’s weird Pad Kid is actually really easy for me.
Sam Glueck
July 17, 2020 at 12:08 am
It was the only one I managed to get through without messing up lol
Daniel Rieger
July 16, 2020 at 9:37 pm
give this man the username and password for wired channel
Jonathan Ransom
July 16, 2020 at 9:51 pm
Can he please just have his own channel at this point?
geekelly000
July 16, 2020 at 9:53 pm
School sausages, school sausages, school sausages, school schosages 😅
Reubn
July 16, 2020 at 10:31 pm
As an Aussie I found the last one easy
boy638
July 16, 2020 at 10:39 pm
Oh I thought you physically twist your tongue with a tool.
Average Moth
July 16, 2020 at 10:48 pm
May I introduce you to some Polish tounge twisters? I’ve got some juicy ones.
Future Of Fallout
July 16, 2020 at 10:55 pm
If you can beatbox PAD KID is easy…
Anne Hocque
July 16, 2020 at 10:58 pm
These episodes are so good when youre not a native english speaker. Makes me understand how to say some letter combinations better
bowelsoftrogdor
July 16, 2020 at 10:58 pm
Molar R. I don’t touch my teeth with my tongue I finish with cheek rounding.
Anais chance
July 16, 2020 at 11:26 pm
My king is back
Hana Kamilia
July 16, 2020 at 11:26 pm
ERIC IS BACK WITH MORE CURLSSSS
Shamsulazhar
July 16, 2020 at 11:40 pm
The comment section proves that women just can’t resist a cunning linguist
Annie Sanders
July 16, 2020 at 11:41 pm
Erik makes me want to study linguistics. it’s such an interesting subject. Masterclass needs to recruit him for classes
Daniel Casalinovo
July 16, 2020 at 11:52 pm
Yesssss my boy Erik is back!!!!!
Razan Alsayed
July 16, 2020 at 11:57 pm
Why I’m smiling
Colton c
July 17, 2020 at 12:28 am
The start of this video sounds like anxiety
Brendan Dougherty
July 17, 2020 at 12:41 am
Erik has exactly the kind of book collection I hoped Erik had.
Clisare
July 17, 2020 at 1:04 am
This is so exciting! Thank you so much for having me! 🙌🏻 It was very hard with the Irish accent 😂
Michael O'Brien
July 17, 2020 at 1:09 am
Standing in my kitchen at 10:40 pm, making pizzaronis and trying tongue twisters. Sounds pretty standard for 2020 at this point
Kaoss134
July 17, 2020 at 1:13 am
Any comment on the Pinky and the Brain tongue twister episode?
whomst'd've
July 17, 2020 at 1:21 am
Dialect daddy is back
M. E.
July 17, 2020 at 1:26 am
tag yourself, I am Bob
Simply Matt
July 17, 2020 at 4:02 pm
Aaron earned an iron urn
freeflow313
July 17, 2020 at 4:09 pm
nice cintiq.
Place logo here
July 17, 2020 at 4:25 pm
Congrats on 6.69 m
Genevieve
July 17, 2020 at 5:31 pm
My man is B A C K!!! 🎉🎉
Nea
July 17, 2020 at 5:42 pm
Is his real surname “Singer”? 😐
Butterfly Chirp
July 17, 2020 at 6:35 pm
I love this guy
Sally Bradshaw
July 17, 2020 at 6:57 pm
Erik Singer is the reason I’m going into linguistics. Love this guy.
acgm046
July 17, 2020 at 7:23 pm
I love phonetics, though I wish could know much more about them. Also imitating pronunciation and intonation patterns is fascinating! Erik has such a cool job 🤓
Suffering
July 17, 2020 at 7:41 pm
Let me guess, it’s passed 2am, your top eye lids are half way there but just can’t stay connected to the bottom..
Just a Friendly reminder for you to get some sleep..
Hanna Löwenherz
July 17, 2020 at 7:42 pm
ERIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIK!!!!
Henry Blyth
July 17, 2020 at 7:47 pm
THE BEARD IS BACK YESSSSSksksksksksksksk
oskar columb
July 17, 2020 at 8:25 pm
…. that last one was the only one I could do …
Angel Midknight
July 17, 2020 at 9:31 pm
For some reason he’s the only language expert I can follow without falling asleep. Other coaches I’ve seen have a very monotone voice.
Helen Scott
July 17, 2020 at 9:41 pm
Please put the tongue twister back up as people stumble on it. I kept forgetting what it was. Also, I needed it up longer to try it myself more than once.
Abcflc
July 17, 2020 at 9:42 pm
Handsome, smart and chill. I need a man like Erik XD
Ларёк Марёк
July 17, 2020 at 10:36 pm
Hunny yes
Ларёк Марёк
July 17, 2020 at 10:36 pm
Absolutely
Staggsy
July 17, 2020 at 11:00 pm
DO ROCKSTAR SUPPORT GTA V!!!!!!
Logan Phillips
July 17, 2020 at 11:38 pm
I read the thumbnail without reading the title and I got extremely confused
Krutharth Vaddiyar
July 17, 2020 at 11:48 pm
this guy looks like Jordan Peterson a little bit
Hernando Mora
July 18, 2020 at 12:05 am
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of [ɚ] ?
Swen Ervin
July 18, 2020 at 12:33 am
I’m 99% here for the brilliance…a strong 1% here for the biceps.
SuperFlyGuyJohnnyP
July 18, 2020 at 1:16 am
When 👏 is 👏 Erik 👏 making 👏 his 👏 own 👏 channel 👏
Lone Succulent Radio
July 18, 2020 at 1:22 am
Erik Singer is the Ryan George of Wired
Benjamin Bardzinski
July 18, 2020 at 1:23 am
Finally another Erik video.
Hayley Moore
July 18, 2020 at 1:23 am
I’m Aussie so I tried the Bossy Tommy Shaw in an American accent and it came out something like a New Jersey or Queens accent. I can’t seem to say it in a more neutral American accent for some reason.
Justin Ramiro
July 18, 2020 at 12:28 pm
Eric is the CEO of language
JordanFromMaple
July 18, 2020 at 12:30 pm
Lmaoo when people say “permission to speak” they’re asking him
no im sirius
July 18, 2020 at 1:13 pm
he needs to start a podcast or something, I could listen to him talk forever
Catharine Chen
July 18, 2020 at 2:28 pm
Yeeeees he’s back!!
Ryan Peterson
July 18, 2020 at 3:22 pm
Anyone else fixated on Genki in the background? エアリク・シーンガーさんは日本語をわかりますか？
Kara Brown
July 18, 2020 at 4:10 pm
KING!!!!
Figgy5119
July 18, 2020 at 4:29 pm
Erik Singer uses the Genki textbook (☉｡☉)!
Broadway Fantasy
July 18, 2020 at 5:13 pm
I’ve never had enough of this dude.
Memma
July 18, 2020 at 5:47 pm
Pad Kid was the easiest of the tongue twisters. Maybe that’s because of the vocal warmups I do for theatre
Dominick C
July 18, 2020 at 5:54 pm
I have a linguistic crush on him
Derek Barolet
July 18, 2020 at 6:04 pm
It would be awesome if he examined some of the fast rap lines and explained how they do it
nasugbubatangas
July 18, 2020 at 6:05 pm
OMG!!! RIP repeat button hehehe
Emrys Corbin
July 18, 2020 at 6:10 pm
Here I am just wildly freaking out we have some of the same cookbooks.
Euan Macdonald
July 18, 2020 at 6:23 pm
Love Erik, glad he’s back!
Next, could you do the most satisfying words to say?
Sher Chu
July 18, 2020 at 7:10 pm
wow this really wrapped up my intro to linguistics course
Suzanne O'Regan
July 18, 2020 at 7:12 pm
Is Erik trained as a Speech-Language Pathologist?
Erika DL
July 18, 2020 at 7:57 pm
Maxine really bringing out that energy
Threefive Nine
July 18, 2020 at 8:04 pm
With ‘truly rural purely plural’ it’s just the y sound of purely that gets me. Change it to ‘truly rural poorly plural’ and it’s no trouble at all.
Starlight
July 18, 2020 at 8:46 pm
Depth perception
Depth perception
Depth perception
Dramalama456
July 18, 2020 at 9:36 pm
I’m too high for this my tongue feels weird now
Will Towler
July 18, 2020 at 9:40 pm
This was fascinating! Have you ever worked with beatboxers? I think it would be super cool to hear a linguist/voice coach go into beatboxer techniques.
𝓶𝓮𝓸𝔀
July 18, 2020 at 10:44 pm
I MISSED YOU ERIK. YOUR LOCKDOWN BEARD LOCKS INCREDIBLE. YOU’RE MY HERO
Brian Thesing
July 18, 2020 at 11:21 pm
Twenty ficteen. We all heard it.
Tasnim Jackson
July 19, 2020 at 1:17 am
Weird, the last twister is actually easiest for me to say
SubourbonMermaid
July 19, 2020 at 1:24 am
I feel like Accent Expert Reads Thirsty Comments should be the next video 😏
Eric Olson
July 19, 2020 at 7:21 pm
Jersey Shore sushi
Annie
July 19, 2020 at 7:37 pm
I can say the last tongue twister mentioned. I’m pretty proud of myself.
Tony Hart
July 19, 2020 at 8:16 pm
Seeing an American named Siobhan is weird… maith an cailín
Tony Hart
July 19, 2020 at 8:33 pm
I’d love a video on the similarities between the American and Irish accent. So many of the sounds that are in “standard American” exist in my (neutral north Dublin) accent too. Maybe the Irish population influenced the American accent?
Bob.e Harrison
July 19, 2020 at 8:47 pm
I love his posh little ‘t’s on the ends of the British English words
Ian Lundquist
July 19, 2020 at 9:18 pm
I’m convinced that cockney lady cant speak at all.
Gustavo Suzuki
July 19, 2020 at 9:22 pm
You should do a video about english being spoken by people whose native language isn’t english, and how their native language affect their english accent
Ali C
July 19, 2020 at 9:26 pm
“Rural” is such a weird word. Sounds like you’re gargling or trying to start a motorcycle 😂
Ian Lundquist
July 19, 2020 at 9:28 pm
I like that the one MIT said is the hardest was by far the easiest.
Niamh-Creates
July 19, 2020 at 10:06 pm
Clisare! @8:40
Coco-puff
July 19, 2020 at 10:32 pm
Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology amongst the books,…of course, with that tattoo.
yesitsmeguru
July 19, 2020 at 11:15 pm
Where were you?
Ava Hunziker
July 19, 2020 at 11:27 pm
to all my fellow French speakers out there : The socks of the archiduchesse are they dry or archi-dry ?
(les chaussettes de l’archiduchesse sont-elles sèches ou archi-sèches ?)
Finbar Lyons
July 19, 2020 at 11:28 pm
My favourite tongue twisters is “why is she so shy”
CitizenSnips
July 19, 2020 at 11:29 pm
Did the pad kid one first time. I’m Welsh though, and therefore a cunning linguist.
Molly Misandrist
July 19, 2020 at 11:33 pm
This guy reminds me of the dude that plays Will Graham in that Hannibal tv show
Naiad Doré
July 19, 2020 at 11:46 pm
I know how to beat the Pad Kid one!
I was having a bit of trouble with it in my normal accent so I just slipped in to a thick WNC southern one and spoke it without a hitch. 😂😂😂
Hey try saying this 3x fast: Rural oil, rural oil, oil rural.
Tatsumaki Senpukyakku
July 20, 2020 at 12:08 am
Eric Singer has the best WIRED series.
Eve —-
July 20, 2020 at 12:21 am
Love this guy
MH from NH
July 20, 2020 at 12:22 am
at 8:40 a wild Tryer appears!
Bobosmodernlife
July 20, 2020 at 12:36 am
Erik puts the E in expert.
aquarium
July 20, 2020 at 12:36 am
Say Accent Expert Explains 10 times fast
cyan10101
July 20, 2020 at 12:45 am
all that sk ks sound at 3:00 makes me think this is an ASMR video.
HoldMeCloserTonyDanza
July 20, 2020 at 12:53 am
Does anyone else find “pad kid” incredibly easy compared to the rest?
Stephanie Torres
July 20, 2020 at 1:22 am
I hope wired is paying Erik handsomely for all that he does 👀👀
Pu Du
July 20, 2020 at 7:37 pm
13:23 in the Englis language lol
Fuzzy Gruzzy
July 20, 2020 at 7:41 pm
Why are some of these hard, but the “hardest” one is literally not even a tongue twister for me?
USEYOURWORDS
July 20, 2020 at 8:05 pm
anyone else think that the “pad kid” one was the easiest???
Finnbar Murphy
July 20, 2020 at 8:09 pm
Find someone who looks at you the way Erik Singer looks at himself at 9:31
Emma Dealey
July 20, 2020 at 8:41 pm
More Erik please!
Amy
July 20, 2020 at 8:44 pm
I TRIED IT 3 TIMES FAST, ERIK!!! Couldn’t do it…
Isabelle Robinson
July 20, 2020 at 8:49 pm
Why did I forget my own accent listening to this?!
Emily H.
July 20, 2020 at 8:56 pm
I have a desperate need to know how on earth his books are organised. That tripped me up throughout the video.
Joe Folino
July 20, 2020 at 9:06 pm
MIT: “We made the hardest tongue twister in the English langua-”
Erik Singer: “The tongue twister is as follows: …” *says it three times*
Ciridae
July 20, 2020 at 9:42 pm
One of the hardest tongue twisters I know is: the sixth sick sheik’s sixth’s sheep’s sick
Steven Sansone
July 20, 2020 at 10:18 pm
Clisare! (8:40)
Spirus Visuals
July 20, 2020 at 10:25 pm
I think Erik knows he’s attractive and he uses it against people
Dantes Gutierrez
July 20, 2020 at 10:40 pm
How did 4 days pass without me knowing there was another Erik Singer video!?
Charlie O
July 20, 2020 at 10:46 pm
i very much would like to know how many times mr singer messed up saying the tongue twisters during filming
Spyderskorpian
July 20, 2020 at 11:14 pm
Is it just me, or was the last one pretty easy? I was able to do it around seven times before messing up. The other ones…sometimes not even one time. Lol
ChesterSnap
July 20, 2020 at 11:16 pm
My favorite thing to hear a Brit talk about is a ball in a bowl. I had an RP accented professor who for some reason used that as an example for local minimums and we couldn’t tell what he was saying because the vowels sound almost inverted.
Also, try saying Irish wristwatch
Kärin Zätterberg
July 20, 2020 at 11:31 pm
I really found the last one the easiest out if all of them….
Isabela Freund
July 20, 2020 at 11:55 pm
I would love nothing more than to hear Erik Singer beat box
Azrira Threesixty
July 20, 2020 at 11:55 pm
I want to teach that last twister in the intro to a classroom full of kindergarteners and watch the world burn.
xTreeLine
July 21, 2020 at 12:06 am
Accent Expert becomes 5% more daddy with each video
Brendan Coakley
July 21, 2020 at 12:38 am
Found the Boston accent.
Alli Gelbmann
July 21, 2020 at 1:04 am
He avoided saying sksksksks so smoothly I almost didn’t notice… you sly dog, you.
Andrew Webb
July 21, 2020 at 1:08 am
I am a simple viewer. I see Eric Singer, I click
marylinnell
July 21, 2020 at 1:22 am
His eyes perfectly match that wall * swoon *
Ben Mather
July 21, 2020 at 1:23 am
RETURN OF THE KING
Jasper Buan
July 21, 2020 at 3:44 pm
Pad Kid wasn’t even that hard?
Ann
July 21, 2020 at 3:59 pm
i needed this. truly.
Mihovil BeckV
July 21, 2020 at 5:02 pm
Dialect Daddy has returned!
lotrgirl27
July 21, 2020 at 5:14 pm
“Fischer’s Fritz fischt frische Fische. Frische Fische fischt Fischer’s Fritz.” You are welcome. ~Germany
The Universal stegosaurus
July 21, 2020 at 5:15 pm
I said the pad kid poured curd pulled cod with a thick non english accent and said pretty fast idk how
Czargei Alcaide
July 21, 2020 at 5:30 pm
I missed you.
Fabio Fernandez
July 21, 2020 at 5:31 pm
miscuit bixer
Beatrice G
July 21, 2020 at 5:37 pm
I wonder if Erik knows how to beatbox 🤔
Tyree Brown
July 21, 2020 at 6:32 pm
I’m so mad I’m here 5 days later 😫😫😫😫
Grace Bishoff
July 21, 2020 at 6:57 pm
RETURN OF THE KING!!!
Taylor Britt
July 21, 2020 at 7:02 pm
The “Pad Kid” one wasn’t that hard for me?? I mean it took some effort but I said it 3xs fast and didnt mess up ¯_(ツ)_/¯
KyleCorbeau
July 21, 2020 at 7:13 pm
13:31 I don’t know why but so far that has been the _easiest_ one for me. Toy Boat and Red Leather Yellow Leather have always been nightmarishly hard for me though.
Jiffah's channel
July 21, 2020 at 8:33 pm
oh please more of this please
Kaymus Vasey
July 21, 2020 at 8:41 pm
I’m so happy to see this guy back on my feed. I’d be really interested to see some Geordie accents in these videos as we get so much flack for our accent 😀
Jiffah's channel
July 21, 2020 at 8:45 pm
J’en connais une super difficile en français: Truite cuite, truite crue. C’est quasi impossible à dire rapidement plusieurs fois sans finir par dire trou d’cul. HAHAHA
hangugeohaksaeng
July 21, 2020 at 8:53 pm
@12:03 Why do people think the most ridiculous New York accent is an American accent? I get New York has a lot of people for it’s size, but it’s such a small portion of the population at large. Listen to the news. They have what I would consider a general American accent.
Malik Tyler
July 21, 2020 at 9:01 pm
I feel guilty bc I def cheated on him with Amy.
Sara Sleightholm
July 21, 2020 at 9:23 pm
Is it just me or are these easier to do in a southern/country accent??
wingedtoast7495
July 21, 2020 at 9:47 pm
my only issue with that ‘hard’ one is remembering which order the words actually go in, as a southern, but not specific brit
Lindsay Moses
July 21, 2020 at 10:49 pm
OMG MY HOMIE ERIK IS BACK YAAAASSSSSSS LANGUAGE DZADDY
Joshua Photara
July 21, 2020 at 11:24 pm
Say ‘Irish Wristwatch’ 3times fast
Rebecca Slaman
July 21, 2020 at 11:25 pm
PLEASE DO I’M NOT THERE (2007) AT LEAST CATE BLANCHETT’S PERFORMANCE <3
Joshua Photara
July 21, 2020 at 11:39 pm
This highlighted how much your natural speech is almost entirely muscle memory. When I start thinking about it I mess it up.
Bri Bright
July 21, 2020 at 11:45 pm
this took a lot longer than 16 minutes cause i kept pausing to try and do every twister XD
Tiana Pi Tesr
July 22, 2020 at 1:03 am
My bae! THEN I CLICK!
Mark B
July 22, 2020 at 8:51 am
Hurrayyyy Erik is back
Tom Wylde
July 22, 2020 at 9:09 am
Dude I need Erik to call me for my accents for these videos 😉
JCstone1000
July 22, 2020 at 9:56 am
I recently discovered a tabletop game called Kamba, which is based on repeating difficult tongue twisters. Any fans of this video should check it out!
Charles Hammel
July 22, 2020 at 11:45 am
Awesome
chuckacevedo Acevedo
July 22, 2020 at 12:21 pm
Poo 💩 I love
Talpa 1987
July 22, 2020 at 12:53 pm
I tried the “most difficult” tongue twister, but I don’t find it that difficult.
The most difficult English tongue twister I as a German know is “red lorry, yellow lorry” because “r”s and “l”s and the “y” in yellow are so close to each other and we don’t have the English r so it’s a difficult sound anyway.
Talpa 1987
July 22, 2020 at 1:00 pm
I have a stupid question: how do I hear what sound I make? Like, how do you hear which IPA sign matches what you are saying? I think, even with recording myself, I couldn’t tell.
Lethr Blaka
July 22, 2020 at 1:04 pm
Why is this japanese tongue twister: “すもももももももものうち (sumomo mo momo mo momo no uchi)” hard to say for japanese? it seems easy to me (german).
Robert Cotrell
July 22, 2020 at 1:45 pm
This was fascinating!
Luke Menniss
July 22, 2020 at 2:26 pm
I have a dark ‘l’ in “pulled” when I speak, which makes that last tongue twister way easier! Still a tricky one though.
Hibou Wolf
July 22, 2020 at 2:26 pm
Huh, my S sound is similar to the American R, but moved forward to the front bicuspids, and my tongue tip touches my bottom incisors. I’m actually incapable of making the S sound any other way. I’ve got a neutral American accent. I also think it’s curious that I can roll my R’s, but asymmetrically. The tip of my tongue goes to just above my left canine and the whole left side of my tongue anchors itself to my upper left teeth, and the rapid flapping of the rolled R happens with the forward right side of my tongue. I do have a slightly asymmetrical mouth though, with my right teeth seemingly pushed inwards just a bit.
Peter Salazar
July 22, 2020 at 2:27 pm
Is this older Linus Sebastian?
Natan Getschel
July 22, 2020 at 2:38 pm
I came up with a tongue twister a while ago, “Optimal Optical Octal Octopus”
Ian Daut
July 22, 2020 at 3:38 pm
This is a sexier version of vsause.
SpeakerCone
July 22, 2020 at 5:23 pm
I’ve found the trick to these is to think musically. If I can slot the sounds into a rhythm things get a ton easier, especially if I allow a beat between words or sections.
iop erty
July 22, 2020 at 5:37 pm
Always good to hear and see Erik Singer. Great charisma, interesting lecture
MeowGarlicster
July 22, 2020 at 5:44 pm
Eric Singer in his first Wired video: Grindr
Eric singer now: Scruff
iamnoone21
July 22, 2020 at 5:54 pm
I love learning all these intricacies about sounds we make everyday without noticing
Maxwell Nichols
July 22, 2020 at 8:47 pm
You know, Erik, you could just make your own YT channel and we’d all watch it.
Ramonerdna
July 22, 2020 at 9:10 pm
The Pad Kid one was one of the simpler ones for me, not sure if its the fact that it with a Jamaican accent
Katia
July 22, 2020 at 10:42 pm
Toy Boat turns Americans Australian.
Harrison Koyl
July 22, 2020 at 11:21 pm
I know of some japanese tongue twisters, but I wonder if theres any that are linguistically more difficult for other accents
Charlotte Randall
July 22, 2020 at 11:26 pm
My favorite tongue twister is “A synonym for cinnamon is a cinnamon synonym.”
Alayna Weathers
July 22, 2020 at 11:40 pm
Erik’s bACK. Finally.
DanceWormDance
July 23, 2020 at 12:42 am
If only one YouTuber ever remained I hope it’s this man
Nikolay Manev
July 23, 2020 at 6:49 pm
Aaron earned an iron urn!
Humble Commenter
July 23, 2020 at 6:49 pm
he must be the most articulate person on the planet
99
July 23, 2020 at 7:11 pm
Babbling bumbling band of baboons
RICHARD MARTINEZ
July 23, 2020 at 7:37 pm
erik should have his own youtube channel
Elanor The Fair
July 23, 2020 at 7:47 pm
I actually found the Pad Kid one easier than some of the others. I think it’s because I’m a student of speech pathology, and we have an exercise where we do nothing but practice those exact consonant sounds in quick succession (“P-t-k, p-t-k, p-t-k”).
Jenna M
July 23, 2020 at 7:53 pm
Is it just me or was the “hardest tongue twister” ever REALLY easy. Cause it was for me lol
Heidi Larson
July 23, 2020 at 8:26 pm
If you can say it slowly you can say it quickly. (Not.)
Lynda Stiefvater
July 23, 2020 at 8:43 pm
he scrolls so fast, I never have time to read without pausing.
Bobbo Wrenwood
July 23, 2020 at 8:58 pm
wait, do y’all pronounce X as /ks/ instead of /kˢ/? My tongue is already in place for an /s/ when I start the /k/
Junki Sato
July 23, 2020 at 9:02 pm
Found “genki” the Japanese textbook on the shelf!
I Hate Cooking
July 23, 2020 at 9:03 pm
I love Maxine’s energy 😂
Meghan Helmich
July 23, 2020 at 9:08 pm
I find that saying these twisters in an English accent helps me better avoid stumbles. I’m an American. 🤷♀️
SapFrupin
July 23, 2020 at 9:11 pm
My favorite tongue twister is rather simple but really hard to say:
“Irish wristwatch”
Give it a try.
gemenglin
July 23, 2020 at 9:16 pm
Loved this video!
My favorite tongue twister is “The 6th sick Sheikh’s 6th sheep’s sick”.
sween187
July 23, 2020 at 9:26 pm
Red lorry, yellow lorry, (now ten times fast)
Mr HeinzCo
July 23, 2020 at 9:36 pm
The algorithm failed me here. Danny Kaye wins.
aka potatis
July 23, 2020 at 9:42 pm
I swear this editing is a straight rip off of Master Class
Coracias
July 23, 2020 at 10:02 pm
I love the cockney dude xD
Kathleen Beirne
July 23, 2020 at 10:05 pm
mit : this is the hardest tongue twister
erik: you wanna see some real speed
Moly
July 23, 2020 at 10:26 pm
I’ve always found it weird that I don’t lift the tip of my tongue to make an ‘s’ sound. I lift the middle of it. I’m US.
Seksenbes Yedi
July 23, 2020 at 11:05 pm
As a linguistics student I love to see people enjoying his videos ^_^
jinsoul's french fry
July 23, 2020 at 11:11 pm
omg i can do pad kid tho
ojiverdeconfleco
July 23, 2020 at 11:59 pm
Wait, for /s/ the tip of my tongue goes down behind my teeth
frigginjerk
July 24, 2020 at 12:22 am
3:01 Erik Singer beatbox.
Mollydedog
July 24, 2020 at 1:27 am
Despite not being able to pronounce R’s correctly in childhood, I’m surprised that I was able to do ‘truly rural purely plural’ fast without messing up…
Han Boetes
July 24, 2020 at 6:26 pm
I made a variation making it even harder: We shall see when Chelsea says, she shall sell seashells at the seashore.
Han Boetes
July 24, 2020 at 6:26 pm
That name is simply made for it.
Julian Flowers
July 24, 2020 at 6:39 pm
He is the best thing in my life
Grayson Schaer
July 24, 2020 at 7:21 pm
Inner speaking, or inner monologue, uses the same pathways as actual speech and is therefore often understood as our brains practicing how our speech will sound before we say it as a form of rudamentary error correction: . However, I still mess up these tongue twisters even when recited internally. Do you think, then, that improper phoneme execution is exclusively a result of physical error, as suggested in the video, or could it also be influenced by improper sound recall (caused by phoneme similarity) during the internalization of speech?
Redacted
July 24, 2020 at 7:33 pm
What? No, I out my tongue down to make an S sound
Aidan Goodier
July 24, 2020 at 7:42 pm
Pad kid poured curd pulled cod was the easiest tongue twister ever.
MIT’s slipping.
Icarus_BZ
July 24, 2020 at 8:02 pm
This man is the like 40% of the reason I’m in grad school studying linguistics lol
Rectorbj
July 24, 2020 at 8:25 pm
What about “The sixth sick sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick”? I thought that one was the hardest.
Phengophobia
July 24, 2020 at 8:32 pm
Something interesting I’ve noticed is that tongue twisters in other languages are not as difficult for me as ones in my native tongue. Anyone else?
Jensky
July 24, 2020 at 9:17 pm
The rural juror. The rural juror. The rural juror.
NintenTyr
July 24, 2020 at 9:26 pm
I like this guys stuff. Show him more
Ugh Not You
July 24, 2020 at 9:29 pm
i only managed to get the fast thief one right
Xaesalys Zimpkee
July 24, 2020 at 9:40 pm
The rural juror perpared me fpr 8:37 lmao
Kari Guidry
July 24, 2020 at 10:00 pm
why am I watching this
M. A. DAVIS
July 24, 2020 at 10:09 pm
I would t be able to study with him. When he says “I’m being my tongue tip…” i’d swoon.
Gnug215
July 24, 2020 at 10:44 pm
One that was always really hard for me, for some reason, was “Ed edited it”.
It’s as if my brain is refusing to say it properly.
Hugo Junior
July 24, 2020 at 10:46 pm
That man is really into Scandinavian cuisine
DiamondCalibre
July 24, 2020 at 11:01 pm
5:27 poggers
LAdream Er###
July 24, 2020 at 11:02 pm
5:24 omg is this why I can read/rap the words in my head perfectly but when i try to do it out loud I can sometimes mess up? Because it has to go through a process to come out but when it’s just in ur head it doesn’t ?
J T
July 24, 2020 at 11:08 pm
The biscuit mixer one is also hard because of the alternating B and M sounds.
seven of 9 startrekie
July 25, 2020 at 12:03 am
I don’t like saying “Rural” in English because I’m used to say it in French, so it’s uncomfortable. Thus, I try my best to avoid saying that word.
Zah Hall
July 25, 2020 at 12:08 am
I’m sorry but an f to replace a th is abhorrent
Matt Layman
July 25, 2020 at 12:10 am
My favourite has to be “the sixth sick sheiks sixth sheep’s sick”
cutsleeve
July 25, 2020 at 12:58 am
I am a chick to Singer’s mama bird. Whatever he feeds, I am EATING. IT. UP.
ath85
July 25, 2020 at 1:03 am
Erik Singer, do you have a video on rhotacism? I’m running into more children and adolescents with this issue and would love to hear your expertise. Thanks, IP
Lexi Ledford
July 25, 2020 at 1:25 am
I just want to listen to him all day long. And also be his friend.
damnthose
July 25, 2020 at 10:32 am
oh god Erik is so hot imagine what he can do with his tung 🥵
Shyam
July 25, 2020 at 11:21 am
What is the Gotham book?
QatQuest
July 25, 2020 at 11:35 am
What an absolute chad
BloodySymphony
July 25, 2020 at 12:14 pm
Was I the only one who found the Pad Kid tongue twister quite easy? 😛
Woohoo! Lifeisamazing
July 25, 2020 at 12:41 pm
As a non native English speaker whose accent has been shaped by both American and British content, my pronunciation on this was all over the place XD I’d be curious to know what Erik Singer has to say about my “hybrid” accent.
lucy k
July 25, 2020 at 1:10 pm
Him owning a wacom tablet is my favorite energy
Shirokröte
July 25, 2020 at 1:19 pm
1:40 She accidentally said “Wanker” in German. Lol.
Su Goral
July 25, 2020 at 1:50 pm
Theophilus, the thistle sifter, while sifting a sifter full of thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thickness of his thumb. Try saying that while eating un-dunked biscotti. Not on a first date.
Devon Grey
July 25, 2020 at 2:17 pm
Erik Singer is the best thing on Youtube.
noslowerdna
July 25, 2020 at 2:26 pm
“Rick’s Irish wristwatch” is my favorite.
Shah Rukh
July 25, 2020 at 2:30 pm
am i the only person who noticed that he’s HOT ASF 🥵🥵🥵🥵
Emma Matz
July 25, 2020 at 3:00 pm
This dude looks like legal eagle
LittleGirl Chrissie
July 25, 2020 at 3:55 pm
3:02 you absolute beatboxing legend, you…
Airehcaz
July 25, 2020 at 4:12 pm
To be honest, I pretty much *only* visit this channel to watch videos with this guy
meret j
July 25, 2020 at 4:37 pm
did anyone else notice him saying “englis” at 13:24 – he accidentally created another tongue twister!
Harakkamakkara
July 25, 2020 at 5:27 pm
It’s funny to see people getting tripped up by these tongue twisters! Really crazy how we’re limited by our own anatomy, even with something we do all the time like speaking :,D
-Oz-
July 25, 2020 at 6:28 pm
I love this guy <3 His videos are like a wonderful treat 🙂
AksLeMec
July 25, 2020 at 6:29 pm
Everyone’s favourite dialect coach
Gabriel
July 25, 2020 at 6:51 pm
Erik’s RP accent sounds almost exactly like Henry Cavill
Anny Penny
July 25, 2020 at 9:35 pm
As a non-native speaker I didn‘t find the tongue twisters too difficult. Probably I concentrated more or/and pronounced some words incorrectly …😅
o.O
July 25, 2020 at 9:36 pm
What I found interesting is because of my accent (central London), the fast thief tongue twister was easy to go through because I usually pronounce and replace TH words as F (however the word THOUGH would be pronounced DOUGH – WEIRD!). I have to consciously change over back to TH which made it so much harder.
Edit – I made the initial comment MOMENTS before Erik went on the explain this exact process lmao. Should have figured since every other video he’s been on he goes into incredible detail.
Nameless Nom
July 25, 2020 at 11:04 pm
Pad Kid was the easiest one
Elleape
July 25, 2020 at 11:50 pm
The dislikes on this video are the people that Mr. Singer has caught faking accents.
torakku
July 26, 2020 at 12:26 am
the world rural in and of itself is hard to say lol
Kayla Ortiz
July 26, 2020 at 12:36 am
Linguistic major here! Love this, he goes over all lot of information while keeping it still relatable and understandable to someone who doesn’t know the technical terms
Michelle Zapf-Belanger
July 26, 2020 at 2:41 am
I would watch literally any video this guy made.
Mason King
July 26, 2020 at 2:45 am
y was the last one the only one i could do easy lmfaoo
Hannah Cook
July 26, 2020 at 5:31 am
Betty botter bought some butter, but she said this butters bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. So Betty bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter, and she put it in her batter and it made her batter better.
Damon Beats
July 26, 2020 at 7:18 am
Bossy Tommy Shaw.
“Here’s a ‘blessed/worthy’ sentence I just wrote”
sonali das
July 26, 2020 at 9:27 am
Gotta have your own channel Sire!
Kokusai Samu
July 26, 2020 at 12:19 pm
Lol, he gave up on learning Japanese? He only has the first level of the Genki series in his shelf. Still, I wanna do his job! I wonder how much education he got
MrUtuber2012
July 26, 2020 at 2:48 pm
Saying “Sofa King” 10 times fast is still the hardest tongue twister
tooeducatedtobehappy
July 26, 2020 at 3:42 pm
13:24 hehe ‘Engliss’ language
Line Ro Ca
July 26, 2020 at 3:55 pm
13:23 – “Englis'”. That’s fun and very fitting for the video. lol
Douglasqqq
July 26, 2020 at 4:54 pm
Americans don’t use the word ‘lorry’ (to mean ‘truck’/’18-wheeler etc.) so you guys miss out on the much harder ‘red leather, yellow leather’ variant; “Red lorry, yellow lorry”
Lucía Fernández
July 26, 2020 at 5:42 pm
girls don’t want boys, they want accent expert and dialect coach Erik Singer
afroteddybear
July 26, 2020 at 6:47 pm
That Bossy Tommy and Proper Coffee phrases seem to be more like Shibboleths than tongue twisters. A nice way to catch out a non-native accent.
Elle Fromm
July 26, 2020 at 6:49 pm
this video is dangerously close to telling theatre kids they have rights
Harley H
July 26, 2020 at 7:57 pm
I love the pheasant one. I grew up with: I’m not a pheasant plucker, I’m a pheasant plucker’s son, and I’m only plucking pheasants til the pheasant plucker comes.
Bertie Brown
July 26, 2020 at 9:07 pm
I’ll ALWAYS pull up for Erik Singer. I’ve found the physicality of speech since I read “Red Dragon” in High School. Now with my children we read, “Fox in Sox” a good deal as they were/are learning the physical aspect of pronouncing letter sounds.
Michael M
July 26, 2020 at 9:18 pm
Erik inviting me to imagine if he were a tongue… I’m not going to complain.
wyatt hatch
July 26, 2020 at 9:45 pm
That last one wasn’t really that hard for me? I thought the others were a lot harder
Alison Martin
July 26, 2020 at 9:49 pm
I’ve noticed that toy boatx10 in a Brittish English accent is much easier than my native American English!
Xavier
July 26, 2020 at 10:23 pm
Truly rural puraly rual
Move the *jaw* and you got it America
Xavier
July 26, 2020 at 10:26 pm
Pad kid poured curd pulled cod wasn’t hard to say 🤔
Miranda Keigher
July 26, 2020 at 11:05 pm
13:24 anybody catch that? Just me?? Come on I know someone caught that slip
Jackie Rosas
July 26, 2020 at 11:23 pm
He looks like Magneto and Glenn Howerton and sounds like a supportive 4th Grade teacher who doesn’t get paid enough and gives gold stars or smarties to the kids on the last Friday of the month because they deserve it, gosh dang it.
I adore this man.
Haley Turnbull
July 27, 2020 at 1:23 am
he’s just gotten progressively hotter over time – well done, universe!
P e d r o
July 27, 2020 at 7:12 am
Argyle gargoyle 10 times fast
y yg
July 27, 2020 at 9:33 am
pretty cool stuff
Violet Quaileggs
July 27, 2020 at 9:38 am
Try “This needs stitches” 5 times fast.
Susan Fourtané
July 27, 2020 at 9:46 am
Brilliant.
SWAE SWAE
July 27, 2020 at 10:26 am
dialect daddy!
Jan Rupert Alfeche
July 27, 2020 at 11:44 am
“Pad Kid” was…. actually the easiest one for me o_o I guess it’s because I’m familiar with Tagalog and Bisaya, which pulls this kinda sound OFTEN.
Stubbed Thumb
July 27, 2020 at 1:02 pm
Can we PLEASE see him play with Pink Trombone
Kaydee Ruff
July 27, 2020 at 1:06 pm
‘Squirrel crisps’ is tricky for some non-native speakers. My French grandma just couldn’t do it
Claire Thoma
July 27, 2020 at 1:53 pm
Who even needs to take diction class? Just watch these videos religiously
TheDancerMacabre
July 27, 2020 at 3:12 pm
Why does he look like if Dennis Reynolds went down the higher moral path?
Kampffmonkey
July 27, 2020 at 3:59 pm
The one that was supposedly the “most difficult tongue twister” was kind of the easiest one for me? I’m Irish, I did find a good few others ones pretty difficult tho 😊
Lorenzo Ianicelli
July 27, 2020 at 4:10 pm
I’ve always wondered how Sharlto Copley managed to nail a bunch of various accents but somehow keep failing at doing the American accent for any length of time. Now I have an explanation for that! Thanks, Erik.
parker. aesthetic
July 27, 2020 at 4:11 pm
the tea
sammybabi
July 27, 2020 at 5:32 pm
My new favorite youtube series
SW Yoon
July 27, 2020 at 6:14 pm
neat tattoo. celtic origin?
Morbius 76
July 27, 2020 at 7:23 pm
The “Toy Boat” one is quite easy in my accent (Teesside, England). For me, the vowel in “toy” is much less rounded and more open than in most accents. My vowel in “boat” is actually just the monophthong /o/ with more rounding. Therefore, the sounds are more distinct and less easily confused.
Ally Forbes
July 27, 2020 at 8:55 pm
he needs his own channel asap
el.
July 27, 2020 at 8:59 pm
whenever there’s an erik singer upload the comments on his videos have me howling. we’re all the same tbh we love u erik
Ana Roçadas Noel
July 27, 2020 at 9:09 pm
Betty put a bit of bitter butter in her batter. The bit of bitter butter made her batter bitter.
Rog er
July 27, 2020 at 9:17 pm
Say “Toy Boat” 5 times fast
whatdonow
July 27, 2020 at 9:41 pm
I generally suck at tongue twisters but I had no issue with that biscuit one 🤷
Edwin de Paula
July 27, 2020 at 10:03 pm
I’m in love with him
grayarea
July 27, 2020 at 11:01 pm
so interested in hearing beat boxers do these. I bet they’d be great at it.
Camila G
July 27, 2020 at 11:22 pm
I would die for him
HereThereClaire
July 27, 2020 at 11:52 pm
Is it just me or does Erik sound like Ralph Fiennes when he speaks with a British accent? It is spot on! 👌
William Smythe
July 28, 2020 at 6:21 am
Friar Tuck’s firetrucks
Nice_to_Micha .
July 28, 2020 at 7:05 am
11:33 and 11:44… OFtEN vs ofTen… Your silent “t” warms my heart, thank you! 🤓🙏💙
Louise Rosado
July 28, 2020 at 7:57 am
“Três pratos de trigo para três tigres tristes”. For me, this is the most difficult tongue twister in Portuguese. The word “Tigres” is hard to say on its own, but in this sentence, I never manage to get it right
JenJo
July 28, 2020 at 8:01 am
Can you guys comment on my favorite accent video of all time: The Baltomore accent test–
DeeDee Skinner
July 28, 2020 at 8:24 am
am i the only won who though the last one was the easiest lol. like i struggled the whole video and then that was a breeze lmaooo
Caterpillar
July 28, 2020 at 8:33 am
Dipthong Dad
Lachlan Paillard
July 28, 2020 at 8:58 am
I don’t know if it’s me specifically but pad kid feels really easy in my Australian accent
Helen Strand
July 28, 2020 at 10:19 am
I could say “toy boat” all day. I’ve got a Scottish accent 🤷♀️
Pink Silk
July 28, 2020 at 10:38 am
Mother pheasant plucker sounds like a pleasant curse word
Righty SnipeZ
July 28, 2020 at 12:13 pm
That’s strange I had no trouble with ‘pad kid’ one, I have a New Zealand accent.
Jose Santiago
July 28, 2020 at 1:05 pm
0:46 It’s a PUPPY! 🐶
MyLittleDashie 7
July 28, 2020 at 1:09 pm
Pretty sure you meant that Bossy Tommy one would be hard for the English, and not “Brits”. Shaw and Often are exactly the same in my Glaswegian accent.
Baerschenarts
July 28, 2020 at 1:19 pm
More Erik Singer!
grace mabel
July 28, 2020 at 3:47 pm
The pad kid one is SO fun to say once you get it down
Jason Gilliland
July 28, 2020 at 4:39 pm
“cool research … where they put people in brain imaging machines and have them do tongue twisters”.
Sounds like they were just goofing around and decided they had to publish something to keep getting funded. I’m not complaining tho.
Marcus Cowles
July 28, 2020 at 4:46 pm
Erik makes the world a better place. Who’s up for crowd-funding Erik to teach the next generation?
TesserId
July 28, 2020 at 5:16 pm
What about that Baltimore accent video: “Aaron earned an iron urn” ()
Lauren Maslin
July 28, 2020 at 7:21 pm
“…and that’s going to make your brain explode” sums up the way a person feels during the process of learning an unfamiliar accent.
Madeline Griffin
July 28, 2020 at 8:14 pm
My favorite younger twister is
Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie
Erina
July 28, 2020 at 8:27 pm
So I was trying to do the “s” and a snake started dancing in front of me.
Ida Woodhouse
July 28, 2020 at 8:27 pm
Láttam szőrös hörcsögöt. Éppen szörpöt szörcsögött. Ha a hörcsög szörpöt szörcsög rátörnek a hörcsög görcsök.
(I saw a furry hamster. He was slurping syrup. If the hamster slurps syrup he will get hamster cramps.)
Erina
July 28, 2020 at 8:48 pm
My tongue hurts wth
Jordan Culver
July 28, 2020 at 11:07 pm
Dialect Daddy is BAA-aaack!
Hannah Lane
July 28, 2020 at 11:27 pm
One I really love telling people is Jason Schwartzman’s Swedish Massage.
Cole
July 29, 2020 at 12:18 am
I would die for this man.
Carl Does Music
July 29, 2020 at 3:29 am
3:09 I feel like it’s even simpler than that… your brain gets lazy/confused… you want to say “box of ‘misked’ biscuits”… like a form of dyslexia or something 😮
Lauren
July 29, 2020 at 5:37 am
No one:
Me: *p d k d p d k d*
Anna Pruitt
July 29, 2020 at 6:18 am
This is the time I’ll actually follow along and do/say whatever someone is telling you to do on a video.
Melonology
July 29, 2020 at 6:41 am
Ks sk ks ks sk sk ks
Mantequilla
July 29, 2020 at 6:41 am
Yeah boiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Melonology
July 29, 2020 at 6:43 am
5:29
Melonology
July 29, 2020 at 6:46 am
Kokoo koko kokko kokoon
Melonology
July 29, 2020 at 6:56 am
12:10 Sounds a bit like Hiddleston? 😅
Gabi
July 29, 2020 at 7:50 am
we do a lot of these in choir so i’m used to tongue twisters haha
Nick Augusta
July 29, 2020 at 8:19 am
chill Larry
Mick Bull
July 29, 2020 at 8:57 am
@WIRED As an Australian speaker I found Pad Kid quite easy.
The hard English language tongue twister I”m aware of is:
“The sixth Sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick”
Sheelan
July 29, 2020 at 12:41 pm
I love that you not only dispelled misconceptions about vocal fry, but also highlighted the sexism that shows when people voice their annoyance with women who speak with a creeky voice, and not men. I am not a fan of the things Kim says and does, but this is a super important point in my opinion.
Александра Молчанова
July 29, 2020 at 1:17 pm
I want to have a list of all those tongue twisters on my wall
Natt T
July 29, 2020 at 1:35 pm
Awesome
Chris Robinson
July 29, 2020 at 5:00 pm
Tried it for myself, I should just stop speaking at all.
Amy Rose
July 29, 2020 at 5:02 pm
I wondered why the thick fish tongue twister was easier for me then you said about fronting the th sounds to an f … guilty!! lol
I’m a speech therapy student so this feels like the best kind of procrastination
Paige Roy
July 29, 2020 at 5:34 pm
How come Canadians can pronounce “Toy Boat” well ?
Hazel Greene
July 29, 2020 at 8:59 pm
Yes Erik my brain is indeed melting, thank you very much. 😂
S G
July 29, 2020 at 9:56 pm
Why am I so attracted to him?
Markus Rawls
July 29, 2020 at 11:08 pm
I’m tired of these Mother Plucking Pheasants on this Pheasant Plucking Plane
Elliot Grant
July 30, 2020 at 5:16 am
the cockney accented man gave off such lovely gentle vibes somehow??
benedictify
July 30, 2020 at 7:43 am
I think Pad Kid Poured Curd Pulled Cod really is not the toughest tongue twister
Nicholaus
July 30, 2020 at 7:54 am
Am I really laughing hysterically at tongue twisters at 3 o’clock in the morning?
…
*yes*
Ted Pertzborn
July 30, 2020 at 8:12 am
You’ve a lovely Mjolnir tattoo, Erik Singer. Well done, mate.
Chris Kau
July 30, 2020 at 9:07 am
“In my accent…” Wait what? Does anyone think Erik has an accent?
J H
July 30, 2020 at 10:09 am
I just realized I don’t have subtitles on for his videos. I can actually understand him. That might not seem like a big deal to you, but I have a really hard time understanding people.
Gianna Bermeo
July 30, 2020 at 10:20 am
Okay but “bossy tommy Shaw often called on lots of tall, honest law officers and constantes to do all kinds of awful horrible, profit less jobs” HE SNAPPED
Odddit
July 30, 2020 at 11:27 am
That pad one is pretty fuckin ez lol
Issa
July 30, 2020 at 2:10 pm
Wired finally posting a video with Erik Singer is like seeing a lighthouse after 297337 months at sea
Brain Blessed
July 30, 2020 at 4:55 pm
Russian tonguetwister:
Клара у Карла украла кораллы, Карл у Клары украл кларнет.
Put it in google translate, hit the play button to hear it, then try to reproduce it.
P.S. Always wanted to make a japanese person do it.
Alex Temple
July 30, 2020 at 6:49 pm
“Pad kid” took on a rather gruesome aspect as I watched this video while eating pad thai.
Jane Smith
July 30, 2020 at 7:48 pm
Fascinating!!
deadness05
July 31, 2020 at 12:40 am
He sounded like Jack Sparrow when he talked about the coffee pots! 😂❤️
Kayla Boyd
July 31, 2020 at 3:38 am
7:36
cameron
July 31, 2020 at 4:28 am
my dogs name is biscuit and he was real confused for a second there
Diana Leonis
July 31, 2020 at 6:25 am
Just found out I’ve been saying ssSSSssSs wrong my whole life..
Emily Nelson
July 31, 2020 at 7:05 am
The rural juror 😆
DVOYD
July 31, 2020 at 7:35 am
MIT researchers: this is it, we’ve found it, the hardest tongue twister ever
me, having almost no trouble saying it 5 times fast: ???
Kitty
July 31, 2020 at 6:13 pm
Ah, tongue twisters, especially when you have a lisp and burr. What a pleasure , grrrrrrrrrrr.
Sithean
July 31, 2020 at 6:35 pm
*Why* is he not in movies?
Alley Wolf
July 31, 2020 at 11:14 pm
3:03
Man sounds like a vsco girl
spim randsley
August 1, 2020 at 6:18 am
Does cockney Maxine have a channel?
Domo Vo
August 1, 2020 at 9:04 am
Lucked out on the last one. Everything else was a big no.
M.K. McGill
August 1, 2020 at 5:43 pm
5:27 kissy kissy?
Ania Korsunska
August 1, 2020 at 7:26 pm
“its really going to make your brain explode”
leaves
August 2, 2020 at 6:57 am
the first time i tried toy boat i said “toy boit”
4bs_ben
August 2, 2020 at 9:58 am
Are we all just gonna ignore Larry absolutely nailing “box of biscuits” at 1:28 ???
Philip Bonyhadi
August 2, 2020 at 3:11 pm
I believe that I made one of the more difficult and short tongue twisters I’ve encountered.
“Clack. Switch. Slam.”
Try it 10x and let me know what you think.
Whatever
August 2, 2020 at 6:51 pm
At 13:24 he says “researchers came up with what they claim was the hardest tongue twister in the Englis (!) language” – his tongue got twisted, and it wasn’t even in a tongue twister….
Dumisa Lengwati
August 2, 2020 at 9:05 pm
15:12 – How is no one talking about how Kamal KILLED ‘pad kid poured curd pulled cod’ 🤣🤣🤣💯
Gabbie
August 2, 2020 at 10:35 pm
Erik: *Explains the first tongue twisted and accidentally beat boxes*
SMATF5
August 3, 2020 at 4:53 am
I just realized that tongue twisters are like drum rudiments for the mouth; it’s like trying to mix combinations of paradiddles and double stroke rolls in a specific order.
KingChickenwing
August 3, 2020 at 10:26 pm
Why is English one of the languages that has any accent that is neutral? I assume English is the weird one, since most other languages have all accents being more extreme?
GAY GOC
August 3, 2020 at 10:58 pm
13:23 did he say “englis language”?
ken ouma
August 4, 2020 at 9:47 am
Say LeBron as fast as you can
ruben contreras
August 4, 2020 at 4:34 pm
This guy is carrying this channel 👌 truly awesome
Tr. Da.
August 4, 2020 at 9:29 pm
I am a pleasant mother plucker
Mitchell mckee
August 5, 2020 at 2:45 pm
Interesting note on the ‘toy boat’ phenomenon. I’m a Scottish English speaker so my /o/ in boat is a monopthong, so I have no trouble with this tongue twister in my accent as my tongue is only moving in the first /o/, like [oi], in toy then coming to a neutral position in the second /o/, more like a normal [o] sound. Cool!
KiKiKiKida
August 5, 2020 at 8:28 pm
I swear that hardest tongue twister was made for newfie accents!
Neverland Nights
August 5, 2020 at 8:32 pm
In the video he says an ‘s’ sound has the tip of your tongue behind your top teeth, does anyone else have it under their bottom teeth? Like where your bottom gums are?
Falconshadow
August 6, 2020 at 1:37 am
why was the “hardest tongue twister” literally the easiest one?
Gordon Fremen
August 6, 2020 at 9:09 pm
you should really put this name in the titles at this point
Paul Fallon
August 6, 2020 at 9:37 pm
I’m not the pheasant plucker, I’m the pheasant plucker’s mate, And I’m only plucking pheasants’ cause the pheasant plucker’s late. I’m not the pheasant plucker, I’m the pheasant plucker’s son, And I’m only plucking pheasants till the pheasant pluckers come.
Kamilla Newman
August 7, 2020 at 7:44 am
I tried the “pad kid” one a couple of times and I don’t have too much trouble with it actually. I’m South African, if that illustrates anything.
Noah Silva
August 7, 2020 at 9:55 am
Who else thought Pad Kid was the easiest tongue twister
TheMorgwhhlshilth
August 7, 2020 at 10:03 am
Could you make a video about the scandinavian accents and why actors often have such trouble mimicking them in movies? I often find that scandinavian accents wind up sounding like Swedish Chef (a caricature) or some weird form of russian (like in S2 of Umbrella Academy). People are praised for finding the right english accents all the time, but I dont know if there has ever been a non-scandi actor who has made a really good scandi accent, even when its been just an accent and not the actual language.
Gbk Th
August 7, 2020 at 3:55 pm
as an accent geek/actor I love these vids:)! Keep’em coming!
Royalist
August 7, 2020 at 6:41 pm
thanks for me making me suffer for the last hour! i’ve been trying to do the new york tongue twister. suffice to say it’s not going well 😛
slay them all metal
August 8, 2020 at 3:39 am
This reminds me when I learned I wasnt saying rhinoceros correct and When I tried to repeat the correct way I blurted out nirosonourus
Bee Whistler
August 8, 2020 at 9:49 am
I mean, if you concentrate you can say that “pad kid” one pretty consistently. Did the people in the study get more than one try?
Orla Spurr
August 8, 2020 at 1:22 pm
I suck at all of these except for the MIT one which was easy. Is this an Australian accent thing?
Addler Martin
August 8, 2020 at 6:43 pm
In Brazil we have the _”Casa suja, chão sujo”_ tong twister. For me, that’s the hardest one.
The Singing Pastry Chef
August 8, 2020 at 11:29 pm
The theatre major in me is daaaaaaaancing
Edward Gattis
August 9, 2020 at 12:11 am
MIT Scientists: This is the trickiest tongue twister in the English language.
Dialect Daddy: Hold my vowel diagram chart.
UHeardMe1stTime
August 9, 2020 at 4:28 pm
4:29 Wait. How’d you get a map of the inside of my mouth?
Kyla M
August 10, 2020 at 6:57 am
something about toy boat made me angry i cant do it :(((((
ParadoxicallySweet
August 10, 2020 at 8:00 am
Not ONE mention of goose fronting! I hope you are feeling okay, Erik
Giulia Concialdi
August 10, 2020 at 6:27 pm
the first tongue twister had me sounding like a VSCO girl.
Taylor Copeland
August 11, 2020 at 4:08 am
Please do a piece on the regional accents of the British Isles!
TPRJones
August 11, 2020 at 5:22 pm
These meat-flap diagrams are really messing with my head.
Maryann Hughes
August 12, 2020 at 1:27 am
Gwan Clare
Kyler Dowling
August 12, 2020 at 7:21 pm
I am tongue tied so this sucks more.
Ya Boi
August 12, 2020 at 9:58 pm
Hmm honestly I don’t find the “pad kid poured curd pulled cod” one that hard… I just have a neutral American accent, though I grew up in the south so that comes out when I get agitated. And I uh, studied mandarin for a pretty long time?
carina
August 12, 2020 at 11:59 pm
Erik: make a *k* sound!
Me, watching this at night: *ᴋ*