Tongue twisters are a great way to improve and practice pronunciation when learning a foreign language. They are also a good way of improving our communication skills as they help us control our tone and rhythm while speaking. Our English Tongue Twisters book promotes learning through repetition and humour.

There are a multitude of tongue twisters in each language. Learning the ones from your target language will help you improve your skills in that language. They frequently contain the kind of challenging sounds and phrasing which are unique to that idiom, making them a great way to improve your skills – whilst making funny mistakes and coming out with hilarious unexpected meanings.   

Here are some tongue twisters in English that we encourage you to practice and learn to improve your communication skills…  Once you can say them perfectly, try going a little faster – that’s when the fun really starts!

Valentine's Day Interactive Quiz

It's Valentine's Day - interactive spot the differences game

Valentine's Day paid APPS

Candy Valentine Hearts

Create photo-realistic candy hearts (and now chocolate hearts, too) with any message you can think of. Write your own 1, 2, 3 or 4-line message, pick a color, decide whether to use one of the beautiful included backgrounds, choose a font size, and then this app creates a beautiful candy heart just for you! And, with one click you can save your creation to your Photo Album and then email to anyone you want, or use as your background wallpaper!

Matching Hearts

A fun matching game using candy hearts. Catchy tune and sound effects. 

Score is based on how fast you finish matching - 

compete against your friends to see who is faster!

i See-quence Valentine's Day Social Skills Stories

i See-quence... Valentine's Day is an application providing a photo social skill story for individuals that need support in understanding the process of Valentine's Day. Twenty-seven icons with real picture images are used to illustrate the sequence of events. Each page can be individualized for the user by adding personal photos taking pictures with an Apple camera ready device, add text and audio.

Biscuit's Valentine's Day

A sweet Valentine's story that can be read to you with silly animations and sounds on each page.

Also includes several games and activities!

Untranslatable Love Words From Around The World - infographic

Jimi Hendrix's London flat opens as a museum

Jimi Hendrix's London home is to open as a permanent museum for the public to visit on 10 February 2016.

The flat at 23 Brook Street, Mayfair, has undergone a £2.4m restoration with the help of money from the Heritage Lottery Fund and private donors.

Hendrix bought the third-floor flat in 1968 at a time when he was considering the next phase of his career. That summer he released his Electric Ladyland LP.

Tickets will go on sale on 2 November.

The flat is next door to the former home of the German-born composer George Frideric Handel, who lived at 25 Brook Street for 26 years and wrote many of his greatest works there, including the Messiah.

Both homes are owned by the Handel House Trust, which has been using the Hendrix flat as an office, only opening it occasionally to the public.

At the heart of the Hendrix flat will be the main living room, restored to how it would have been when Hendrix lived there.

Among the exhibits are previously unseen or rarely seen images of Hendrix taken at the flat and in the local area.

The museum will also include a new state-of-the-art studio to be used for teaching and as a concert venue.

Living at 23 Brook Street fuelled Hendrix's creativity and led to many hours of writing and countless jam sessions with visiting musicians.

He became fascinated by the fact that Handel had lived so close and went on to buy many records of the composer's works, the most notable of which is a copy of the Messiah performed by the English Chamber Orchestra.

This is now housed at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington, along with a large section of Hendrix's record collection.

Hendrix shared the Brook Street flat with his girlfriend Kathy Etchingham and Hendrix referred to it as "the first real home of my own".

The couple lived there, in-between trips abroad, for around a year.