Folks Or Folks?

[Hilde]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='14 May 2010 - 08:36 PM' timestamp='1273858594' post='2110620']
Could you film yourself saying Norwegian tongue-twisters for us???
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Ibsens ripsbusker og andre buskevekster.

Say that ten times fast.

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='14 May 2010 - 01:48 AM' timestamp='1273816098' post='2110464']
That's really interesting.

To be honest, I didn't know you weren't a native English speaker until you mentioned it once. I'm sure most people can't tell.
[/quote]

I think it took me quite a while before I found out Hilde wasn't a native English speaker! Somehow I fell across that one post when she mentioned it. (Though I have NO idea which post that was.)

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Hilde' date='14 May 2010 - 07:45 PM' timestamp='1273884330' post='2110868']
Ibsens ripsbusker og andre buskevekster.

Say that ten times fast.
[/quote]
I actually have a theory that tongue twisters aren't particularly hard in a language that you don't speak. Not sure if it's true or not, but I tried a..... Czech tongue twister, I think, and didn't find it so hard. Maybe it's just because I'm literally not able to go fast enough reading unfamiliar words.

[Ed Normile]

Again I did not vote, I was looking for[b] I pronounce it the proper way[/b], but it was not there!

ed

[MIKolbe]

huh?????

[Hilde]

[quote name='laetitia crucis' date='15 May 2010 - 04:16 AM' timestamp='1273886213' post='2110889']
I think it took me quite a while before I found out Hilde wasn't a native English speaker! Somehow I fell across that one post when she mentioned it. (Though I have NO idea which post that was.)




[/quote]Thank you.

Nope I'm not bilingual at all. I've lived here all my life, and none in my family has lived anywhere else either, not even Sweden.
[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='15 May 2010 - 07:01 AM' timestamp='1273896085' post='2110974']
I actually have a theory that tongue twisters aren't particularly hard in a language that you don't speak. Not sure if it's true or not, but I tried a..... Czech tongue twister, I think, and didn't find it so hard. Maybe it's just because I'm literally not able to go fast enough reading unfamiliar words.
[/quote] Maybe. I don't find the woodchuck one difficult mainly because it has such a clear rhythm and the same sounds over and over.

I have a nail polish called Suzi sells sushi by the seashore, kind of tongue twister i suppose.

This one is rather simple but I don't think I can do it: Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry, Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry,
Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry, Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry, Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry, Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry,

[T-Bone _]

Try:

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

[laetitia crucis]

How about this one:

Good blood, bad blood. (said about 5-10 times -- as fast as possible).