Accent Expert Breaks Down Tongue Twisters in Different Accents | WIRED

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  • Опубликовано: 2 дек 2024

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  • @BeantownMrs
    @BeantownMrs 4 года назад +4156

    Erik Singer could literally talk about anything and I'd watch him.

  • @treeflamingo
    @treeflamingo 4 года назад +3471

    I deeply appreciate how Erik Singer has been getting progressively scruffier.

    • @IceMetalPunk
      @IceMetalPunk 4 года назад +73

      It's CoronoWorld, we've *all* been getting progressively scruffier :D

    • @Fragrantbeard
      @Fragrantbeard 4 года назад +11

      I feel a little better about being a salon holdout. I'm so shaggy!

    • @bibliophilecb
      @bibliophilecb 4 года назад +61

      It suits him too!

    • @claramaeb
      @claramaeb 4 года назад +9

      aren't we all

    • @epiclyawesomesauce
      @epiclyawesomesauce 4 года назад +10

      @Tim Evans mood

  • @Jyva_
    @Jyva_ 4 года назад +4530

    The Lord of the Accents: Return of the King

    • @mushin111
      @mushin111 4 года назад +18

      Ironically the lord of the rings has no tongue to twist. The mouth of sauron, on the other hand...

    • @jayakrishnaus8737
      @jayakrishnaus8737 4 года назад +2

      share your ideas in learnandnotify ( learnandnotify.herokuapp.com/ ) for those who seeking knowledge

    • @TheRecoveringCreative
      @TheRecoveringCreative 4 года назад +1

      🙌🏾🙌🏾😄

  • @edwardgattis3813
    @edwardgattis3813 4 года назад +923

    MIT Scientists: This is the trickiest tongue twister in the English language.
    Dialect Daddy: Hold my vowel diagram chart.

    • @OrigamiCL
      @OrigamiCL 4 года назад +99

      DIALECT DADDY 😭😭

    • @jencrochetingradtech5913
      @jencrochetingradtech5913 4 года назад +6

      Comment winner!!

    • @jetreyes842
      @jetreyes842 3 года назад +10

      He's literally all that comes up if you google that 😂😂😂😂

    • @MuriKakari
      @MuriKakari 3 года назад +8

      I would really like to know what their subject pool for that experiment was.

    • @ac_ramone
      @ac_ramone 2 года назад +5

      DIALECT DADDYYYY 😱😱 (it's true tho🤷🏻‍♀️)

  • @markmark567able
    @markmark567able 4 года назад +8138

    His back must be aching with him carrying this channel all by himself and all.

  • @jojustobvious7660
    @jojustobvious7660 4 года назад +866

    Erik Singer: "The trickiest tongue twister to date"
    Erik Singer: **says the phrase in three different speed levels with no problem**

    • @leilaschafernak-perez8814
      @leilaschafernak-perez8814 4 года назад +50

      it’s not that hard actually

    • @MycoCane
      @MycoCane 4 года назад +69

      Yeah that's the only one I had absolutely no problem with.

    • @emmataylor2748
      @emmataylor2748 4 года назад +30

      I had no problem with it at all. But that could be an accent thing possibly?

    • @Rena-ej7vv
      @Rena-ej7vv 4 года назад +8

      Dialect Daddy has mad skills.

    • @multistormhawks
      @multistormhawks 4 года назад +8

      @@emmataylor2748 What's your accent? I also had no problems with it in the slightest - south australian here.

  • @rice_frying_shrimp
    @rice_frying_shrimp 4 года назад +656

    We are blessed to live in a timeline where even during quarantine WIRED provides us with more incredible Erik Singer content!

    • @brookenjonas
      @brookenjonas 4 года назад +6

      J B I still need more Erik. I always need more Erik.

  • @SeanKL107
    @SeanKL107 3 года назад +111

    If you ever ask Erik "What that mouth do?" he'll break out the quadrilateral and regale you with a twenty minute presentation.

  • @Clisare
    @Clisare 4 года назад +533

    This is so exciting! Thank you so much for having me! 🙌🏻 It was very hard with the Irish accent 😂

    • @Ash-V-Leal
      @Ash-V-Leal 4 года назад +14

      THE TRY CHANNEL REPRESENT XD

    • @teshurahpunter3635
      @teshurahpunter3635 4 года назад +4

      I was so happy to see you. Too bad they spelled your name wrong.

    • @kristenmillerzohn4028
      @kristenmillerzohn4028 4 года назад

      Try this!

    • @riveramnell143
      @riveramnell143 4 года назад +9

      Longtime fan of Facts and now Try, when you popped up I yelled, “Hey, I know her!” at my screen. Most random crossover to date, but I was excited 😆

    • @MegaMagicGoat
      @MegaMagicGoat 4 года назад +3

      A wild Clisare appears

  • @elmtree9951
    @elmtree9951 4 года назад +205

    he needs to start a podcast or something, I could listen to him talk forever

  • @bethwalker8072
    @bethwalker8072 4 года назад +782

    I’m a simple person. I see Erik’s face and I click.

    • @chrissosa3723
      @chrissosa3723 4 года назад +6

      I thought you were Random Person

    • @steakfries__
      @steakfries__ 4 года назад +1

      Chris Sosa straight fire, get em

  • @Efreeti
    @Efreeti 4 года назад +599

    I love this tongue twister so much I trained myself to say it flawlessly:
    "Amidst the mists and fiercest frosts with barest wrists and stoutest boasts, he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts."

    • @ccRask
      @ccRask 4 года назад +24

      THAT'S MY FAVORITE TOO! I practiced it and presented it during my speech class in high school 😄

    • @Fragrantbeard
      @Fragrantbeard 4 года назад +80

      Oh funny! That's not so hard for me, but most of these are! Yours reminds me of iambic pentameter. The rhythm of it is very helpful.

    • @zen_ccg
      @zen_ccg 4 года назад +15

      I trained myself to do she sells sea shells because I have a lisp lmao

    • @RasmusEklund
      @RasmusEklund 4 года назад +16

      Is this supposed to be a hard tongue twister because it was easy. No offense

    • @nityaprabhandam5239
      @nityaprabhandam5239 4 года назад +21

      Aha, a Stephen King fan

  • @lucifermeowstar4604
    @lucifermeowstar4604 4 года назад +1301

    Do an “S” sound.
    Me: making snake jazz for the next hour.

    • @mushin111
      @mushin111 4 года назад +69

      tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts

    • @WilliamAndrea
      @WilliamAndrea 4 года назад +17

      ss sS sS SS ssss ss ssss

    • @emilienews
      @emilienews 4 года назад +21

      snazz

    • @MargieMedina
      @MargieMedina 4 года назад +2

      Supes shook by the fleekness 🤣

    • @blu4get
      @blu4get 4 года назад +11

      @@mushin111 is it bad that I sat down and read your snake jazz score aloud? Just me in front of my computer squinting at your comment and hissing

  • @TheRealSubourbonMermaid
    @TheRealSubourbonMermaid 4 года назад +783

    I feel like Accent Expert Reads Thirsty Comments should be the next video 😏

  • @annie.sanders
    @annie.sanders 4 года назад +586

    Erik makes me want to study linguistics. it's such an interesting subject. Masterclass needs to recruit him for classes

    • @brookenjonas
      @brookenjonas 4 года назад +8

      Do ittttt❤️

    • @madiis18account
      @madiis18account 4 года назад +30

      this is more specifically phonetics

    • @brookenjonas
      @brookenjonas 4 года назад +15

      Madeleine H but phonetics = fun

    • @RaymondHng
      @RaymondHng 4 года назад +2

      It's phonology.

    • @brookenjonas
      @brookenjonas 4 года назад +5

      RaymondHng we’re talking about accents here which are under the umbrella of language. Phonetics is what we’re talking about here. It’s under the umbrella of phonology.

  • @masterman812
    @masterman812 4 года назад +66

    The man who started a RUclips genre.

  • @bucky13
    @bucky13 4 года назад +152

    I'm honestly shocked at how much the advice in these videos can help to improve ones ability to talk differently. In my head language was always kind of ethereal and mysterious.. But now I realize that's language is just as much of a science as chemistry.

    • @MadMax22
      @MadMax22 4 года назад +7

      It’s still pretty magical despite the physical process.

    • @prettyrat.
      @prettyrat. 4 года назад +6

      @@MadMax22 it's alchemy :D

  • @jasperfk
    @jasperfk 4 года назад +174

    I MISSED YOU ERIK. YOUR LOCKDOWN BEARD LOCKS INCREDIBLE. YOU’RE MY HERO

  • @swervin79
    @swervin79 4 года назад +722

    I'm 99% here for the brilliance...a strong 1% here for the biceps.

    • @jonahs92
      @jonahs92 4 года назад +3

      Simp

    • @excaria5949
      @excaria5949 4 года назад +15

      You're not alone lmao

    • @crunchyoats1862
      @crunchyoats1862 4 года назад +6

      @@jonahs92 girls can't simp you simp

    • @jonahs92
      @jonahs92 4 года назад +6

      @@crunchyoats1862 Not true. Women simp, too.

    • @birdi3beez
      @birdi3beez 4 года назад +2

      I’m the reverse percentages 🌚

  • @1234fakerstreet
    @1234fakerstreet 4 года назад +33

    If wired just turned into Eric Singer time, I'd watch it all day.

  • @hepcatliz
    @hepcatliz 4 года назад +147

    My neighbor must think I'm having a stroke right now

  • @Rottentwinkerz
    @Rottentwinkerz 4 года назад +41

    MIT: "We made the hardest tongue twister in the English langua-"
    Erik Singer: "The tongue twister is as follows: ..." *says it three times*

  • @KianaDahling
    @KianaDahling 4 года назад +399

    It only took 4 minutes and 43 seconds to hear the word “diphthongs”

    • @MCDexX
      @MCDexX 4 года назад +13

      "You got a triphthong for me babe? Awww yeaaahhh... what's that? A quadrophthong? Oooh, you're KINKY!"

    • @brookenjonas
      @brookenjonas 3 года назад +1

      Let me see that thooonng baby
      That thong thong thong thong thong🎶

  • @elcisitiak172
    @elcisitiak172 4 года назад +76

    Meanwhile I can't say "rural" one time slowly 😂

    • @sketchur
      @sketchur 4 года назад +6

      SAME! it's the one word I've had problems with my whole life.
      rur-rul... roo-rul... But somehow, I can say "mirror" effortlessly. 😅

    • @relaxolotl_ltoloxaler
      @relaxolotl_ltoloxaler 4 года назад +2

      I can’t say brewery correctly to save my life.

    • @nightrose8133
      @nightrose8133 4 года назад +2

      Same

  • @shamsulazhar
    @shamsulazhar 4 года назад +1398

    The comment section proves that women just can't resist a cunning linguist

    • @IceMetalPunk
      @IceMetalPunk 4 года назад +366

      True, although most men who believe themselves to be cunning linguists are really just master debaters.

    • @meimeng04
      @meimeng04 4 года назад +42

      I liked both comments. LOL

    • @brookenjonas
      @brookenjonas 4 года назад +1

      Amen 🙏🏻

    • @juliakercsmar6587
      @juliakercsmar6587 4 года назад +11

      As a bi female about to go into italian in uni this is really reassuring😄

    • @JustinK0
      @JustinK0 4 года назад +31

      they just want a man with a strong tongue

  • @owtowler
    @owtowler 4 года назад +26

    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.

  • @sallybradshaw4576
    @sallybradshaw4576 4 года назад +34

    Erik Singer is the reason I'm going into linguistics. Love this guy.

    • @MCDexX
      @MCDexX 4 года назад +4

      You won't regret it. It was one of my two majors and it's touched so much of my life. We use speech and writing almost every minute of every day, and diving deeply into how it all works will be very rewarding for you. Have fun!

  • @jackierosas9593
    @jackierosas9593 4 года назад +13

    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.

  • @pickwill101
    @pickwill101 4 года назад +353

    Is there a language class can sign up for, with him teaching? I don't want to better my accents, I just want to hear him teach.

    • @dialectcoachesadmin2494
      @dialectcoachesadmin2494 4 года назад +41

      Yep! You can visit his website www.eriksinger.com. He has pre-recorded classes available. :-)

    • @AirQuotes
      @AirQuotes 4 года назад +44

      I'm surprised Masterclass hasn't snapped him up

    • @chocmilkshake24
      @chocmilkshake24 2 года назад

      @@dialectcoachesadmin2494 Thank youuu!

  • @yelizmotro5337
    @yelizmotro5337 4 года назад +10

    WHO IS THE EDITOR THAT GETS TO JUST LOOK AT HOURS OF FOOTAGE OF THIS HANDSOME BRILLIANT FACE
    and the arm tattoo too

  • @ozstrider
    @ozstrider 4 года назад +68

    Erik has exactly the kind of book collection I hoped Erik had.

  • @mephostopheles3752
    @mephostopheles3752 4 года назад +68

    WIRED: Autocomplete interview
    Me: -o- zZzZz
    WIRED: Erik Singer
    Me: 👁👄👁

  • @noone1932
    @noone1932 4 года назад +276

    OMG
    ERIC SINGER IS BACK !!!! BACK AGAIN!!

    • @KevinNerfs
      @KevinNerfs 4 года назад +17

      SINGER’S BACK! TELL A FRIEND!

    • @dinahlavati7249
      @dinahlavati7249 4 года назад +5

      It was too long since last his video!

  • @SapFrupin
    @SapFrupin 4 года назад +337

    My favorite tongue twister is rather simple but really hard to say:
    "Irish wristwatch"
    Give it a try.

    • @sooj3361
      @sooj3361 4 года назад +108

      iwish wwistwatch

    • @notthestatusquo7683
      @notthestatusquo7683 4 года назад +42

      The more I say it the more I put on a Northern Irish accent.

    • @Kurostyle21
      @Kurostyle21 4 года назад +17

      Ey-rish ristwetch!

    • @ihspider08
      @ihspider08 4 года назад +24

      Irish wristwatch, swiss wristwatch

    • @byootifoullaif5722
      @byootifoullaif5722 4 года назад +25

      ooh that's a good one! Much harder than the curd pulled cod one for me!

  • @Abraxxis
    @Abraxxis 4 года назад +334

    If Eric Singer and Amy Walker had a baby it would speak the language of Gods

    • @Jenaxu
      @Jenaxu 4 года назад +19

      I ship it

    • @StorymasterQ
      @StorymasterQ 4 года назад +22

      Would the baby grow up to be able to walk and sing at the same time?

    • @DarlingMissDarling
      @DarlingMissDarling 4 года назад +7

      @@elenir234 **eyeroll**

    • @elenir234
      @elenir234 4 года назад

      @@DarlingMissDarling sorry I didn't mean for it to come off so pretentious 😣 I'm just passionate about linguistics and respect Erik's professional and knowledge.

    • @kingstormysky3978
      @kingstormysky3978 3 года назад

      and it would be named Amyric Singerwalker

  • @kathleenbeirne1219
    @kathleenbeirne1219 4 года назад +24

    mit : this is the hardest tongue twister
    erik: you wanna see some real speed

  • @nealhoffman7518
    @nealhoffman7518 4 года назад +163

    Rural is actually one of my favorite words because it starts off sounding like a stalled car, and the more you try to enunciate the worse it sounds

    • @gizellesmith8763
      @gizellesmith8763 4 года назад +10

      Haha I just tried it and you're not lying.

    • @juliansenfr
      @juliansenfr 4 года назад +28

      I hated that word all my life. It's a simple five letter word that makes zero sense pronunciation-wise.

    • @car3ss
      @car3ss 4 года назад +16

      The Rural Juror

    • @divyak9980
      @divyak9980 4 года назад +4

      @@car3ss The Rural Juror Ruler. I can never pronounce these right. I always end up rolling either the first r or the second or just replacing r with l. Nightmare! Ends up like r and l crashed into each other.

    • @shaunamitchell8284
      @shaunamitchell8284 4 года назад +5

      @@car3ss I will never forget you rural juror

  • @ryanleon288
    @ryanleon288 4 года назад +55

    him: *describes k and s sounds"
    me, an intellectual: hold my hydroflask
    sksksksksksk

  • @MaskedLark
    @MaskedLark 4 года назад +249

    It’s weird Pad Kid is actually really easy for me.

    • @thirdwelles
      @thirdwelles 4 года назад +40

      Same. It didn't even feel like a tongue twister

    • @celina1207
      @celina1207 4 года назад +3

      Same

    • @firenter
      @firenter 4 года назад +1

      Same

    • @nellyrivas7742
      @nellyrivas7742 4 года назад +14

      I think it could be due to the way of producing vowels, maybe for accent or easeness in speach. If your vowels are produced rather close to one another, then the difference in patterns would be lesser than in others, making it easier for you.

    • @neurosin
      @neurosin 4 года назад +6

      Seriously same. It works so well as like, a little beatboxing beat.

  • @nightview93
    @nightview93 4 года назад +3

    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

  • @Archarian
    @Archarian 4 года назад +26

    Firstly, I absolutely adore Erik Singer videos, thanks for another interesting and educational 16 minutes!
    Secondly, expanding on the topic of tricky sound sequences, in Russian we have a really tricky combination "жр", which is a zh sound (like in "usual") followed by a hard r. It is not really common but it's a nightmare to say quickly without a pause. I tried to compose a little something here for you:
    Ржавый жрец Ржига ржëт и жрëт рожь
    Sounds something like "Rzhaviy zhrets rzhiga rzhyot i zhryot rozh" and translates roughly to "A rusty priest Rzhiga (that's just a surname) laughs and eats rye"

    • @OriginalSuschi
      @OriginalSuschi 4 года назад

      The "zhr" and "rzh" sounds sound very nice, but saying both together is a little trickier.

    • @Archarian
      @Archarian 4 года назад

      @Jenni Ojibwe you're welcome :)

  • @peculiarthings
    @peculiarthings 4 года назад +3

    He teaches like a Speech Language Pathologist. I learned all this in my Masters and bachelors coursework. Good job dialect coach.

  • @sophroniel
    @sophroniel 4 года назад +174

    Our favourite Wired contributer!!!! (my fav tongue twister is "sju sjösjuka sjömän sköttes av sju sköna sjuksköterskor" cos it makes english speakers just kind of blink at you in horror!)

    • @MrKhaern
      @MrKhaern 4 года назад +8

      bless you

    • @marjieestivill
      @marjieestivill 4 года назад +1

      Mine too!

    • @ErikSingerDialectCoach
      @ErikSingerDialectCoach 4 года назад +18

      I didn't know that one! I know it as "Sju sjösjuka sjömän sköljer stjärten i sjön.”

    • @melissak3885
      @melissak3885 4 года назад +5

      Erik Singer - that’s the version my husband likes to trip me up with, but my friends tend to use the OP’s version (I’m American living in Sweden).

    • @carolinamurtha3102
      @carolinamurtha3102 4 года назад +18

      Me, a native English speaker: *blinking in horror trying to figure out how to even begin that sentence.*

  • @ChaossX77
    @ChaossX77 Год назад +1

    This guy really needs his own channel. He's so good and is a natural at this.

  • @sofi-b
    @sofi-b 4 года назад +207

    i’m a native spanish speaker and i can’t roll my Rs. “rápido ruedan los carros cargados de azúcar al ferrocarril” is a nightmare for me lmao

    • @freycolombo2336
      @freycolombo2336 4 года назад +16

      Sofia Bendana I speak Italian and can’t roll Rs “tigre contro tigre “ “orrore orrore un ramarro verde su un muro marrone” I feel your pain✌️😹

    • @TheJopeToons
      @TheJopeToons 4 года назад +4

      Try Serbian: Na vrh brda vrba mrda.

    • @carolinamurtha3102
      @carolinamurtha3102 4 года назад +21

      I’m Latino and I can roll my “rr’s” but I really have to focus. If I’m just speaking, they sound funny. My cousins make fun of me because “arroz” sounds like “adoz”.

    • @eliisonline
      @eliisonline 4 года назад +2

      @@freycolombo2336 same here, ti capisco 😂

    • @Boyzby
      @Boyzby 4 года назад +6

      It's funny because when I try to roll my Rs I can't do it, but when I don't think about it and just talk it happens and I notice it. After noticing I try to replicate it, and pretty much always fail. My brain is stupid.

  • @yuledevorak8244
    @yuledevorak8244 4 года назад +2

    I like some of the other videos in this channel, but tbh I am here only for this guy. I just adore him. Keep talking, dude... please, keep talking.

  • @Kishan_Baijnath
    @Kishan_Baijnath 4 года назад +13

    South African here who didn't do too bad with the Bossy Tommy bit.
    Thanks for another great video.
    Big fan of Eric Singer!

  • @ax0r799
    @ax0r799 4 года назад +140

    I don't see how the "hardest tongue twister ever" comes even close to The sixth sick Sheikh's sixth sheep's sick. I think those MIT researchers just didn't interview any actors.

    • @elocinaqui24
      @elocinaqui24 4 года назад +43

      just the word “sixth” itself is a nightmare for a non-native speaker honestly

    • @kettern4719
      @kettern4719 4 года назад

      I've had a huge problem with the word "something" for the longest time... and sixth.

    • @GameFreak7744
      @GameFreak7744 4 года назад +22

      I guess it's just my accent, but that 'hardest' one didn't even seem like a tongue twister for me...

    • @aka5
      @aka5 4 года назад +14

      @@elocinaqui24 I'm a native speaker and sixth is still a nightmare

    • @jackalope2281
      @jackalope2281 4 года назад

      @@GameFreak7744 Same. Might be easier than usual in my Minnesota accent.

  • @fermarva2229
    @fermarva2229 4 года назад +31

    I picture Erik Singer repeating tongue twisters over and over again to calm himself down when he's nervous.
    Why not try one in Spanish next time: Tres tristes tigres tragaban trigo en un trigal, en tres tristes trastos, tragaban trigo, tres tristes tigres ;-)

  • @morgand.3809
    @morgand.3809 4 года назад +18

    My favorite tongue-twister is in French: "J'ai vu six cents Suisses suçant six cents six saucisses dont six en sauce et six cents sans sauce."
    Some of their tongue-twisters are a whole saga: "C'est l'évadé du Nevada qui dévalait dans la vallée, dans la vallée du Nevada, qu'il dévalait pour s'évader, sur un vilain vélo volé, qu'il a volé dans une villa, et le valet qui fut volé vit l'évadé du Nevada qui dévalait dans la vallée, dans la vallée du Nevada, qu'il dévalait pour s'évader sur un vilain vélo volé."

  • @loose_leaf_lofi
    @loose_leaf_lofi 4 года назад +228

    His bookshelf is very interesting xD Scandinavian comfort food lol

    • @Rodrigo540
      @Rodrigo540 4 года назад

      Hahahahahaha

    • @francesatty7022
      @francesatty7022 4 года назад +13

      Swedish Christmas Table

    • @ryuusei1907
      @ryuusei1907 4 года назад +12

      I keep getting distracted by the Genki books (because I've been studying to be a Japanese translator)

    • @variousthings6470
      @variousthings6470 4 года назад +8

      Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology!

    • @puppyenemy
      @puppyenemy 4 года назад +12

      Yeah, like most books are what you'd expect him to have, about speech, sounds, dialects, and languange... but then there are three books about Swedish/Scandinavian food and one book about Norse mythology. Curious!

  • @cecefernandes5657
    @cecefernandes5657 4 года назад +20

    Yes. This. More of him please.

  • @bribright5275
    @bribright5275 4 года назад +20

    this took a lot longer than 16 minutes cause i kept pausing to try and do every twister XD

  • @llamafromspace
    @llamafromspace 4 года назад +4

    This would have been so useful for my linguistics classes. This video is amazing, I could watch all day.

  • @excaria5949
    @excaria5949 4 года назад +3

    I appreciate very much how he always has this pleasantly neutral expression on his face but then he has this little tiny smile sometimes

  • @Mymuseandi
    @Mymuseandi 4 года назад +138

    I feel my IQ increase a couple of points just by watching this video lol He makes all this educational stuff sound so riveting.

  • @ReedCBowman
    @ReedCBowman 4 года назад +4

    I always thought "Toy Boat" was difficult for absolutely everybody, but my wife, who speaks perfect Canadian American English, has no trouble with it. Because her other first language is French. French requires much more complex and rapid shifts among closely related vowels. The fact that she and her friends also will switch back and forth between correctly accented French and English within sentences gives them even more practice with precise, quick vowel changes.

  • @DavideKCorno
    @DavideKCorno 4 года назад +38

    I’m a simple person: I see “Accent...” ad I press play

  • @kaylaortiz1336
    @kaylaortiz1336 4 года назад

    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

  • @Zw285
    @Zw285 4 года назад +4

    I'm glad the Eric Singer channel uploaded again.

  • @Coco-puff
    @Coco-puff 4 года назад +13

    Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology amongst the books,...of course, with that tattoo.

  • @westonkraus3340
    @westonkraus3340 4 года назад +314

    Don't lie, you were trying all the tongue twisters and letter sounds

    • @NotMikey437
      @NotMikey437 4 года назад +20

      I mean why would I lie they are fun little challenges

    • @dario2691
      @dario2691 4 года назад +17

      Why lie isn't this what it's for

    • @mushin111
      @mushin111 4 года назад +1

      That was kinda the point

    • @Dayvit78
      @Dayvit78 4 года назад +2

      Of course I was trying. And I was doing pretty good until the people messing up made me mess up

    • @waynedas873
      @waynedas873 4 года назад

      I still to this day can't even say "proper copper coffee pot".

  • @margedparry9942
    @margedparry9942 4 года назад +11

    ‘toy boat’ being really easy for me made me realise how unusual the south wales accent is haha

  • @truskakwa
    @truskakwa 4 года назад +40

    I wanna know why there is Scandinavian Comfort foods on your shelf and Swedish Christmas table, need answers.

    • @kw7378a1
      @kw7378a1 4 года назад

      Omg, I have that comfort foods book. Great recipes in there 😉

    • @kismetau
      @kismetau 4 года назад +1

      He’s Scandinavian by background and was fed this comfort food when he was a child by his Swedish grandma (mormor)?

  • @TokiDokiNara728
    @TokiDokiNara728 4 года назад +2

    I had way too much fun laughing at myself failing these tongue twisters, and the accent practice sentences were interesting. Awesome video with Mr. Singer as always!

  • @diannemelgar5189
    @diannemelgar5189 4 года назад +18

    Oh how I missed this man!

  • @MrSpeakerCone
    @MrSpeakerCone 4 года назад +4

    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.

  • @nf8137
    @nf8137 4 года назад +61

    oooh finally this guy again

  • @DaveTexas
    @DaveTexas 4 года назад +30

    My husband just walked into the room and asked why I was mumbling nonsensical sounds over and over.

  • @muazzamshah9226
    @muazzamshah9226 4 года назад +50

    NOW I CAN'T SPEAK

  • @meretj9004
    @meretj9004 4 года назад +14

    did anyone else notice him saying "englis" at 13:24 - he accidentally created another tongue twister!

  • @alainastone7840
    @alainastone7840 4 года назад +29

    So what makes "Irish wristwatch" so hard to say is a combination of the American "r" and the back and forth movement of "sh" to "st" to "w"?

    • @359339
      @359339 4 года назад +8

      'Irish wristwatch' is one of my favourites. Generally you don't have to ask people to say it 3 times fast, they'll slip on the very first try.

    • @chestersnap
      @chestersnap 4 года назад +3

      It's one of my favorites, too. I was introduced to it on the internet with the full intro being "congrats! You are now aware you cannot say 'Irish wristwatch'". At the time, it was a correct statement but I practiced enough that it's pretty easy to say now and it makes me feel really powerful because of that

    • @359339
      @359339 4 года назад

      @@chestersnap kindred spirit!

    • @Consonanter
      @Consonanter 4 года назад +5

      You're going between post-alveolar ('sh'), and alveolar ('s') and back again ('tch'). Plus, the bunched tongue for 'r' makes you want to produce an 's' that sounds retracted (this is why a lot of people say something like 'shtraight' and 'shtring' instead of 'straight' and 'string' in every day speech). Finally, you're switching up a bunch of different manners of constriction: there's a fricative ('sh'), a fricative + stop ('st') and a stop + fricative which is also called an affricate ('tch'). So basically yes-- alternating the place and manner of constriction between the tongue and the hard palate and throwing some 'r's in between.

    • @kaeisokay
      @kaeisokay 4 года назад

      ChesterSnap same!

  • @40ounces
    @40ounces 4 года назад +8

    he must be the most articulate person on the planet

  • @C.A.P.F.
    @C.A.P.F. 4 года назад +46

    Y'all never tried "Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid"
    For me personally, it's a nightmare of a German tongue twister.

    • @dinimueter9961
      @dinimueter9961 4 года назад +12

      Dicke Nichten dichten im dichten Fichtendickicht, im dichten Fichtendickicht dichten dicke Nichten 😉

    • @DPazR
      @DPazR 4 года назад +1

      Omg they are impossible

    • @hotkeymuc
      @hotkeymuc 4 года назад +6

      @@dinimueter9961 I know it like that:
      Tief im dichten Fichtendickicht
      picken dicke Finken tüchtig!
      (There is just SO MUCH that can go horribly wrong and vulgar when pronouncing it...)

    • @leopfleger1
      @leopfleger1 4 года назад +1

      I also like "Zwanzk zkwetschte Zwetschkn und zwanzk zkwetschte Zwetschkn san viazk zkwetschte Zwetschkn" (yes that's German too :D) but I can definitely never get the Blaukraut one right...NEVER!

    • @dinimueter9961
      @dinimueter9961 4 года назад

      Bernhard Slawik ah, den kenn ich gar nicht😄 jaa das ist so

  • @chriskaprys
    @chriskaprys 3 года назад

    Imagine getting to travel around the world with Erik Singer and Susie Dent. How rich, engaging, soft and, above all, gracious that education would be.

  • @123haninhk
    @123haninhk 4 года назад +27

    Wooo, look at Erik's glorious beard!

  • @cklein907
    @cklein907 Год назад +1

    My Roman Empire is Erik Singer saying “Imagine I’m a tongue.”

  • @therevolutionwillbecaffeinated
    @therevolutionwillbecaffeinated 4 года назад +5

    As someone with a BA in English Lang and lit but who can’t afford to do a masters yet, I friggin love Erik’s videos

  • @dumisalengwati3068
    @dumisalengwati3068 4 года назад +1

    15:12 - How is no one talking about how Kamal KILLED 'pad kid poured curd pulled cod' 🤣🤣🤣💯

  • @KimberlyGreen
    @KimberlyGreen 4 года назад +18

    OMG Clisare!!! My Wired universe and TRY universe just came together! 💜🤩

    • @michaelabarry8255
      @michaelabarry8255 4 года назад +1

      I was only listening and the second I heard her voice, my head snapped up!

    • @Cadrid
      @Cadrid 4 года назад +2

      Kimberly G. Your mind’s gonna _explode_ when you see Dermot’s ad for Jif®!

    • @KimberlyGreen
      @KimberlyGreen 4 года назад +1

      @@Cadrid What?!?! Link! Link! Furmot willingly associating with anything peanut butter is a harbinger of the apocalypse.

    • @PaddyPawsRescue
      @PaddyPawsRescue 4 года назад +2

      Good catch! They’ve listed her name as Claire.

  • @chainchompwithhumanteeth3789
    @chainchompwithhumanteeth3789 4 года назад

    I’ve missed Erik so much! Please do more!

  • @soymartin
    @soymartin 4 года назад +19

    I see Erik, I click like.

  • @Leakampff
    @Leakampff 4 года назад +6

    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 😊

  • @katherinefreeman9009
    @katherinefreeman9009 4 года назад +16

    Ok but show him mess up on these tongue twisters Mr perfectly spoken!! 😂

  • @pristineli3917
    @pristineli3917 4 года назад +2

    This is a remarkable video. I find that knowing the backstory to a sentence really helps, because Pad Kid Poured Curd Pulled Cod is easy for a Singaporean. It's about a Thai kid working in a hawker center. He was taking a lunch break with some curd rice (it's an Indian tradition where you pour your raita onto your rice and mix it to eat) before going back to his fish noodle making job.

  • @biohazard724
    @biohazard724 4 года назад +14

    Was that Clisare? Now I need Try Channel Tries Tongue Twisters!

    • @brebisgaleuse
      @brebisgaleuse 4 года назад +1

      I was happily surprised to see her!

  • @donovanshy9927
    @donovanshy9927 4 года назад

    I love this series with erik its legit my favorite

  • @Abcflc
    @Abcflc 4 года назад +4

    Handsome, smart and chill. I need a man like Erik XD

  • @samb1314
    @samb1314 4 года назад +1

    Erik needs to start a RUclips channel. I could watch him talk about talking all day.

  • @jamironited4
    @jamironited4 4 года назад +5

    This kinda gives me anxiety. Now I feel like speaking is a super complicated system that I felt better not knowing I was engaged in😂

  • @systemsofthinking
    @systemsofthinking 4 года назад

    I feel like every time I watch something like this I have a newfound appreciation for deaf people who have managed to learn how to speak. It's so complicated! And they manage without any auditory feedback!

    • @Paeoniarosa
      @Paeoniarosa 3 года назад

      Good point. Maybe Eric will do a video about this some day?

  • @jonathanwright6618
    @jonathanwright6618 4 года назад +12

    He didn’t address the great “Peter Piper” tounge twister

  • @werdlederdle
    @werdlederdle 4 года назад

    I just want Erik videos. I’m obsessed with language and Erik too now.

  • @lucyk8935
    @lucyk8935 4 года назад +4

    Him owning a wacom tablet is my favorite energy

  • @wow_some_reaction
    @wow_some_reaction 9 месяцев назад

    This what I was looking for seriously after watching almost thousands of videos I found your videos can't explain 😭 my happiness

  • @samsteel1842
    @samsteel1842 4 года назад +17

    When saying toy boat i turn British for some reason-

    • @MCDexX
      @MCDexX 4 года назад +2

      I loved how that cute American guy trying to do RP ended up turning South Asian.

    • @emilysha418
      @emilysha418 3 года назад

      Me tooo

  • @KVjourney
    @KVjourney 4 года назад

    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 :D

  • @netsch20
    @netsch20 4 года назад +5

    I came up with a tongue twister a while ago, "Optimal Optical Octal Octopus"

    • @julietonnes
      @julietonnes 4 года назад

      This is fun to say, but easy in my accent! (Philly)

    • @pierreabbat6157
      @pierreabbat6157 4 года назад

      Octopus ocular optics are opposite our ocular optics. Are octopus ocular optics optimal, or are our ocular optics optimal? Octopus ocular optics are optimal for octopuses, and our ocular optics are optimal for us.
      The only way they're opposite is that our retinas are inside-out. Ocular optics that actually are opposite are found in many arthropods (compound eyes) and scallops (retina inside parabolic mirror).

  • @DanceWormDance
    @DanceWormDance 4 года назад

    If only one RUclipsr ever remained I hope it's this man

  • @glimmerCD
    @glimmerCD 4 года назад +3

    Eric singer rlly said “ACAB” with that sentence