In this TongueTwisting4BetterSpeech, we’ll help you practice the /e/ and the /eI/ sounds together. To practice each of them separately, go to our July 31, 2001 post for the /e/ sound and to this window off the small guide site for the /eI/ sound.


Let’s practice the following words first:
Brain, trail, gait, late, lake
Less, digress, confess, friend, fret
Enable, maintain, unveil, address, paycheck


Say the tongue twister slowly first.
They set sail as the rain fell and made a wet mess of guests who came to watch whales and tell tales.


Good luck!


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