The doctoring doctor
doctors the doctor the way
the doctoring doctor wants to doctor the doctor,
not the way the doctored doctor wants to be doctored.
Tongue twisters are believed to be a great tool to build one's articulation and fluency, and indeed - if one knows a dozen of them and is able to recite them superfast, there's definitely something special about this person's speaking skills.
The thing is, however, that tongue twisters are... not natural. They're a great exercise, but what exactly do you exercise with them? Your ability to use S and TH sounds interchangeably in a sentence? Or is it your being able to say a sentence super-fast, using only the words which start with the W sound? Where in real life would you face such challenges?
Basically, nowhere. Tongue twisters may help one build impressive articulating skills which, however, aren't that much demanded in a realistic conversation.
What IS realistic, however, is poetry, in any of its forms (verses, lyrics, rap lyrics, etc). It's usually rhymed, rhythmical, thus engaging and fun to read; and it strengthens your fluency and articulation using natural phrases, those that you do use, not some unrealistic examples like "she sells sea shells on the seashore".
It doesn't mean that tongue twisters must be thrown away. The main idea is simply to understand what an exercise actually teaches, and what it doesn't, in order not to have ungrounded expectations.
#advice
doctors the doctor the way
the doctoring doctor wants to doctor the doctor,
not the way the doctored doctor wants to be doctored.
Tongue twisters are believed to be a great tool to build one's articulation and fluency, and indeed - if one knows a dozen of them and is able to recite them superfast, there's definitely something special about this person's speaking skills.
The thing is, however, that tongue twisters are... not natural. They're a great exercise, but what exactly do you exercise with them? Your ability to use S and TH sounds interchangeably in a sentence? Or is it your being able to say a sentence super-fast, using only the words which start with the W sound? Where in real life would you face such challenges?
Basically, nowhere. Tongue twisters may help one build impressive articulating skills which, however, aren't that much demanded in a realistic conversation.
What IS realistic, however, is poetry, in any of its forms (verses, lyrics, rap lyrics, etc). It's usually rhymed, rhythmical, thus engaging and fun to read; and it strengthens your fluency and articulation using natural phrases, those that you do use, not some unrealistic examples like "she sells sea shells on the seashore".
It doesn't mean that tongue twisters must be thrown away. The main idea is simply to understand what an exercise actually teaches, and what it doesn't, in order not to have ungrounded expectations.
#advice