La pronunciación es uno de los factores más importantes al momento de dominar el inglés. Conforme avances con tu aprendizaje de la lengua, te darás cuenta a la hora de poner en práctica tus conocimientos que, para comunicarte en inglés, es tan importante tu nivel de vocabulario y conocimiento de gramática, como una pronunciación perfecta.
Por eso, te proponemos que practiques todo lo que sabes con los trabalenguas en inglés. Puede iniciar con los que te encontrarás a continuación que al principio resultarán fáciles, luego de nivel intermedio y, finalmente, avanzado.
Para empezar, comienza aprendiendo estos trabalenguas en inglés cortos, recuerda prestar mucha atención a las palabras, ya que muchas son parecidas en su escritura, pero tienen sonidos diferentes:
I wish you were a fish in my dish. Be a fish in my dish, please.
Four furious friends fought for the phone.
Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
Chester Cheetah chewed a chunk, of cheap cheddar cheese.
Ice Cream, I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
Double bubble gum, bubbles double.
She sells seashells down by the seashore
Clean clams crammed in clean cans.
Una vez que te sientas más seguro puedes continuar con juegos de palabras un poco más largos y complicados, puedes intentar aumentar el nivel de dificultad:
Three witches watch three Swatch watches. Which witch watches which Swatch watch?
Fuzzy Wuzzy, Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasnt very fuzzy, was he?
How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop. Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits
I have got a date, I have got a date at a quarter to eight; Ill see you at the gate, so dont be late.
I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasnt the thought I thought I thought.
If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldnt have thought so much.
The big black bug bit the big black bear, but the big black bear bit the big black bug back.
One-one was a race horse. Two-two was one too. One-one won one race. Two-two won one too
If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?
Por otra parte, si ya tienes bastante del idioma y buscas perfeccionar tu pronunciación, prueba con estos trabalenguas en inglés. Te aseguramos que una vez termines tu inglés será mucho más fluido:
Betty Botter had some butter, “But,” she said, “this butters bitter. If I bake this bitter butter, it would make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter – that would make my batter better.” So she bought a bit of butter, better than her bitter butter, and she baked it in her batter, and the batter was not bitter. So ´twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.
When a doctor doctors a doctor, does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?
How much wood could Chuck Woods woodchuck chuck, if Chuck Woods woodchuck could and would chuck wood? If Chuck Woods woodchuck could and would chuck wood, how much wood could and would Chuck Woods woodchuck chuck? Chuck Woods woodchuck would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as any woodchuck would, if a woodchuck could and would chuck wood.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Wheres the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
How much ground would a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground? A groundhog would hog all the ground he could hog, if a groundhog could hog ground.
If Pickfords packers packed a packet of crisps would the packet of crisps that Pickfords packers packed survive for two and a half years?
I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasnt the thought I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldnt have thought so much.
How many cookies could a good cook cook If a good cook could cook cookies? A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.
De esta manera, familiarizándote con los distintos sonidos y particularidades del inglés hablado, estás dando un paso importante en tu aprendizaje, tanto en agudizar tu oído ante la fonética del idioma como en la pronunciación.
Por ello, es ideal estar atento desde tus primeras lecciones de inglés. No importa que aún no tengas un vocabulario muy amplio, puedes aprender a pronunciar correctamente en inglés desde que comiences con tu aprendizaje del lenguaje y así podrás progresar y alcanzar tu meta de poder hablar con fluidez, de una forma más rápida y eficiente.
No dejes de hacer tus trabalenguas en inglés, invita a tus compañeros a que se unan en el reto de pronunciar correctamente estas complicadas frases.
