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Tongue twisters are a fun and challenging way to improve your pronunciation skills in English, especially for beginners. These are phrases that are difficult to say quickly and clearly because of their repetitive and similar-sounding words. These phrases are designed to be difficult to say quickly and accurately, forcing you to focus on the sounds and rhythms of the language. In this article, we’ll share 50 popular tongue twisters for beginners that will help you sharpen your pronunciation skills and fluency.
50 Popular Tongue Twisters
- Freshly-fried flying fish.
- A proper copper coffee pot.
- Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
- Six slippery snails slid slowly seaward.
- A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.
- The thirty three-thieves thought that they thrilled the thrown throughout Thursday.
- Whether the weather is cold, or whether the weather is hot, we’ll be together whatever the weather, whether we like it or not.
- I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won’t wish the wish you wish to wish.
- The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.
- Pad kid poured curd pulled cod.
- She saw sea shells on the seashore.
- I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
- Each Easter, Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.
- If you must cross a coarse, cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross, coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
- Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep. The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed Shillyshallied south. These sheep shouldn’t sleep in a shack; Sheep should sleep in a shed.
Hard Tongue Twisters
- She sells C-shells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely C-shells. So if she sells C-shells on the seashore, I’m sure she sells seashore shells.
- Betty bought some butter, but she said this butter’s bitter; if I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. So, she bought a bit of better butter, better than the bitter butter, and it made her batter better.
- Whether we whisper or whether we shout, we’ll win the war with words without a doubt.
- I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I thought.
- How many berries could a bare berry carry if a bare berry could carry berries?
- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
- If you understand, say “understand”. If you don’t understand, say “don’t understand”. But if you understand and say “don’t understand”. How do I understand that you understand? Understand!
- Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he? Poor Fuzzy!
- Ned Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not. So it is better to be Shott than Nott. Some say Nott was not shot. But Shott says he shot Nott. Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot, or Nott was shot. If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot. But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott, then Shott was shot, not Nott.
FAQs
Here are some popular tongue twisters:
1. She sells seashells by the seashore.
2. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
3. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
4. Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said the butter’s bitter.
5. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
6. Six slippery snails slid slowly seaward.
7. Unique New York.
These are challenging to say quickly!
Here are some long tongue twisters in English, made easier:
1. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
2. A black bug bleeds black blood, what color blood does a blue bug bleed?
3. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
4. How much ground would a groundhog hog if a groundhog could hog ground?
5. She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells.
These are try and say quickly!
Here are some easy tongue twisters for kids:
1. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
2. She sells seashells by the seashore.
3. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
4. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
5. Red leather, yellow leather.
6. Sally sells sea shells by the seashore.
These help kids improve their speaking skills!
One of the hardest tongue twisters is:
“The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.”
It’s challenging because of the fast switching between similar sounds, making it tough to say quickly!
The fastest tongue twister record is held by people who can say tricky tongue twisters really fast. One record was set by Tracy Jones, who said “The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” 7 times in 23.8 seconds!
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