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100 Tongue Twisters to Perfect Pronunciation in English

Diana Lăpușneanu in Language Tips | Aug 23rd 2019

Ready to have a laugh and twist your tongue into a knot?

Tongue twisters of all sorts and sizes have been helping people to perfect their pronunciation in English for decades. Although they don’t make a lot of sense, tongue twisters are very helpful in speech therapy due to their repeated sounds. For this reason, they are used by actors, politicians and even news anchors before going live. Essentially, a tongue twister works like a physical exercise: the more you practice, the better your pronunciation will be.

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, a tongue twister is “a sentence or phrase that is intended to be difficult to say, especially when repeated quickly and often”. If you too want to improve or perfect your English pronunciation, dive into the complete list of English tongue twisters listed below: from short tongue twisters to tongue twisters for kids and hard tongue twisters to further challenge your pronunciation.

  1. Short tongue twisters
  2. Long tongue twisters
  3. Hard tongue twister
  4. Tongue twisters for kids
  5. Funny tongue twisters
  6. Tongue twisters with S, R, L and TH
  7. Learn a language in 5 minutes a day

Short tongue twisters

Before trying the hard English tongue twisters for champions who talk fast, let’s warm up your speech muscles with some short and fairly easy tongue twisters for beginners.

  1. Eleven benevolent elephants.
  2. She sees cheese.
  3. Six sticky skeletons.
  4. Truly rural.
  5. Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.
  6. Which witch is which?
  7. Willy’s real rear wheel.
  8. Send toast to ten tense stout saints’ ten tall tents.
  9. Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards.
  10. Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle.
  11. A happy hippo hopped and hiccupped.
  12. English can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.
  13. Cooks cook cupcakes quickly.
  14. Really leery, rarely Larry.
  15. Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.
  16. A snake sneaks to seek a snack.
  17. I like New York, unique New York, I like unique New York.
  18. Six Czech cricket critics.
  19. Babbling baby boys blurted boldly.
  20. Which wrist watches are Swiss wrist watches?
  21. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
  22. An ape hates grape cakes.
  23. Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread.
  24. I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen.
  25. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
  26. Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.
  27. She sells seashells by the seashore.
  28. Gobbling gargoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.
  29. Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
  30. Billy Bob blabbered boldly.

Long tongue twisters

When it comes to long tongue twisters and talking fast, we can’t help but think about Eminem. Did you know that he raps with a whopping speed of 11.4 syllables per second in his song “Rap God”? We don’t know much about rap, but that sure sounds like something only the God of Rap could do.

But Eminem’s songs and long tongue twisters are challenging for those who are not ready for long runs. Are you? Can you defeat Eminem? Let’s find out. Take a deep breath and try saying the following tongue twister without stopping.

  1. All I want is a proper cup of coffee.
    Made in a proper copper coffee pot.
    You can believe it or not.
    But I want a cup of coffee from a proper copper pot.
    Tin coffee pots or iron coffee pots, they’re not good to me.
    If I can’t have a proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot, I’ll just have tea.
    All I want is a proper cup of coffee.
    Made in a proper copper coffee pot.
    You can believe it or not.
    But I want a cup of coffee from a proper copper pot.
  2. To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
    In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
    Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
    From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
    To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
    In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
    Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
    From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
    A dull, dark dock, a life-long lock,
    A short, sharp shock, a big black block!
    To sit in solemn silence in a pestilential prison,
    And awaiting the sensation
    From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
  3. Betty Botter bought some butter but, said she, the butter’s bitter.
    If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter.
    But a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better.
    So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter,
    put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter batter better.
    So ‘t was better Betty Botter bought some better butter.
  4. I’m a mother pheasant plucker, I pluck mother pheasants.
    I’m the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker to ever pluck a mother pheasant.
    I’m not the pheasant plucker I’m the pheasant plucker’s wife, I’ve been plucking Mother pheasants my whole pheasant plucking life.
    I’m not the pheasant plucker I’m the pheasant plucker’s mate, I’m only plucking Pheasants ’cause the pheasant plucker’s late.
  5. A tree-toad loved a she-toad
    Who lived up in a tree.
    He was a two-toed tree-toad,
    But a three-toed toad was she.
    The two-toed tree-toad tried to win
    The three-toed she-toad’s heart,
    For the two-toed tree-toad loved the ground
    That the three-toed tree-toad trod.
    But the two-toed tree-toad tried in vain;
    He couldn’t please her whim.
    From her tree-toad bower,
    With her three-toed power,
    The she-toad vetoed him.

  1. Mr. See owned a saw.
    And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw.
    Now, See’s saw sawed Soar’s seesaw
    Before Soar saw See,
    Which made Soar sore.
    Had Soar seen See’s saw
    Before See sawed Soar’s seesaw,
    See’s saw would not have sawed
    Soar’s seesaw.
    So See’s saw sawed Soar’s seesaw.
    But it was sad to see Soar so sore
    just because See’s saw sawed
    Soar’s seesaw.
  2. 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.
    However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott, but Nott.
  3. Theophilus Thistle, the Thistle Sifter,
    Sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles.
    If Theophilus Thistle, the Thistle Sifter,
    Sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles,
    Where is the sieve of un-sifted thistles
    Theophilus Thistle, the Thistle Sifter, sifted?
  4. A flea and a fly in a flue
    Said the fly “Oh what should we do”
    Said the flea” Let us fly
    Said the fly “Let us flee”
    So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
  5. Of all the felt I ever felt,
    I never felt a piece of felt
    which felt as fine as that felt felt,
    when first I felt that felt hat’s felt.

Hard tongue twisters

While we’re at it, we can help but wonder what the hardest tongue twister in existence is. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

At one point, “the sixth sick sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick” held the Guinness World Record for the hardest twister, but since the category no longer exists, the title was probably revoked.

 

Don’t worry though! We are not running out of options. In 2013, MIT‌ researchers concluded that “pad kid poured curd pulled cod” is the hardest tongue twister in the world. In fact, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, an MIT psychologist, says you will get a prize if you manage to say that 10 times quickly. And not any kind of “quickly”. We’re talking super-sonic-Eminem-quickly!

  1. Pad kid poured curd pulled cod.
  2. If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
  3. Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons — balancing them badly.
  4. Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
  5. Can you can a canned can into an un-canned can like a canner can can a canned can into an un-canned can?
  6. The sixth sick sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick.
  7. Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.
  8. Ingenious iguanas improvising an intricate impromptu on impossibly-impractical instruments.
  9. I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop
    Where she shines, she sits, and where she sits, she shines.
  10. When a doctor doctors a doctor, does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?
  11. These thousand tricky tongue twisters trip thrillingly off the tongue.
  12. Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.
  13. Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons—balancing them badly.
  14. A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
  15. Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.
  16. He threw three free throws.
  17. Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear.
  18. Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone.
  19. Chop shops stock chops.

Tongue twisters for kids

Tongue twisters for kids are all sweet, fun, and games until you increase the speed. If you haven’t had enough training, even they can tie your tongue into a Gordian knot. Literally.

 

Take a little brother, sister, or your own kid, and let’s see who wins the challenge!

  1. Blue bluebird.
  2. Four fine fresh fish for you.
  3. Daddy Draws Doors.
  4. Three free throws.
  5. The big bug bit the little beetle.
  6. Friendly fleas and fireflies.
  7. Fresh fried fish.
  8. The raging ram runs ’round rugged Ricky to hit Mickey.
  9. Specific Pacific.
  10. Tommy tossed his twelfth tooth when it turned two times.
  11. Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread.
  12. Betty’s big bunny bobbled by the blueberry bush.
  13. Six sticky skeletons.
  14. Green glass globes glow greenly.
  15. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?
  16. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
  17. Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
  18. I scream, you scream,
    We all scream for ice cream.
  19. Bouncing bed bugs borrowed blankets.
  20. Perspicacious Polly Perkins purchased Peter’s product
    And peddled pickles to produce a pretty profit!

Funny tongue twisters

Our all-time favorite: funny tongue twisters! You’d think all tongue twisters are funny, but nothing compares to this exclusive selection. In fact, you probably heard these ones before. Everybody calls them „funny” for a reason!

Don’t forget to challenge your friends!

  1. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;
    A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked;
    If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
    Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
  2. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
    if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
    He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
    and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
    if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
  3. She sells seashells on the seashore.
    The shells she sells are seashells, I’m sure.
    And if she sells seashells on the seashore,
    Then I’m sure she sells seashore shells.
  4. Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye.
    If cows could fly I’d have a cow pie in my eye.
  5. How much ground would a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground? A groundhog would hog all the ground he could hog, if a groundhog could hog ground.
  6. Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
    Spread it thick, say it quick!
    Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
    Spread it thicker, say it quicker!
    Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
    Don’t eat with your mouth full!
  7. I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.
  8. Luke Luck likes lakes.
    Luke’s duck likes lakes.
    Luke Luck licks lakes.
    Luck’s duck licks lakes.
    Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.
    Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

 

Tongue twisters with S, R, L and TH

As we already mentioned, tongue twisters can be extremely helpful for speech therapy. If you are having problems pronouncing certain sounds like “s”, “r”, “l” or “th”, practicing with the right tongue twisters can ameliorate your speech impediment. Here are a few examples:

Tongue twisters with S

  1. She sells seashells by the seashore of Seychelles.
  2. “Surely Sylvia swims!” shrieked Sammy surprised. “Someone should show Sylvia some strokes so she shall not sink.”
  3. Selfish shellfish. (repeat it several times)

Tongue twisters with R and L

  1. Red lorry, yellow lorry.
  2. A really leery Larry rolls readily to the road.
  3. Rory’s lawn rake rarely rakes really right.
  4. Lucky rabbits like to cause a ruckus.
  5. I looked right at Larry’s rally and left in a hurry.
  6. Round and round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.

Tongue twisters with TH

  1. The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
  2. I thought a thought.
    But the thought I thought
    Wasn’t the thought I thought I thought.
    If the thought I thought I thought,
    Had been the thought I thought,
    I wouldn’t have thought I thought.
  3. Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug – although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty-year-old thug thought of that morning.
  4. Thirty-three thousand feathers on a thrushes throat.

The world-famous Peter Piper tongue twister first appeared in print sometime in 1813, in a book called “Peter Piper’s Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation”, though it is believed that it may have already been in common use by that time. Fast forward to today, people all around the world still love to have a laugh and twist their tongues with this rhyme and many others. And now you do too.

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We had so much fun putting our riddles for kids post together. I am always pulling the riddles out randomly to challenge the kids. They love it!  But our latest fascination is tongue twisters for kids.

Tongue Twisters have been around for many many years and are such a fun way to try to challenge yourself and your kids to say them to see if you can. It is not always about the speed of the tongue twister but how clearly you can say it too.

Tongue twisters are often similar words which follow one another but differ in certain syllables.

Once your kids learn some tongue twisters you will see them excited to go to school or visit a relative and show off their ability to do tongue twisters.

Be sure to check out how to turn tongue twisters into a fun family game at the bottom of this post!

Tongue twisters aren’t only great and fun to say. They also are a great way to help kids with diction.

People have been making tongue twisters for ages and mainly do it for amusement but many people use them for articulation exercises such as radio hosts and politicians to help with their professional speaking! So if your child has a dream to become an actor, television host, or even a radio DJ host tongue twisters are a great way for them to practice and be prepared for when their big break comes.

Think your family would like a little tongue curling challenge? Ready to make your children laugh? You will find that your children will find the funniest part of tongue twisters are the silly mistakes they make while trying to master these tongue twisters.

Try one of these 100+ tongue twisters for kids!

100+ Tongue Twisters for Kids

We’ve tried to categorize these, but truthfully… They’re all pretty funny and not-so-easy!

Below you’ll find some of our favorite hard tongue twisters, funny tongue twisters and short tongue twisters for kids.

If you’re playing with a very young child, you might want to jump to the shorter tongue twisters… Simply because it will be hard for the younger ones with shorter attention spans to “stay with you” on longer sentences!

30+ Hard Tongue Twisters

  1. Any noise annoys an oyster but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more.
  2. If a black bug bleeds black blood, what color blood does a blue bug bleed?
  3. If two witches were watching two watches: which witch would watch which watch?
  4. Rory’s lawn rake rarely rakes really right.
  5. She sold six shabby sheared sheep on ship.
  6. Mix a box of mixed biscuits with a boxed biscuit mixer.
  7. If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing
  8. The bottom of the butter bucket is the buttered bucket bottom.
  9. Vincent vowed vengeance very vehemently.
  10. Does your sport shop stock short socks with spots?
  11. Many mumbling mice are making merry music in the moonlight.
  12. The boot black brought the black boot back.
  13. Super-duper storm troopers whoop it up at Death Star groupers: helmet thrashing, rebel bashing, laser blasting at party poopers.
  14. No need to light a night-light on a light night like tonight.
  15. Shave a single shingle thin.
  16. I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
  17. A big black bug bit a big black bear made the big black bear bleed blood.
  18. I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. Upon the slitted sheet I sit
  19. The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.
  20. Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.
  21. Kindly kittens knitting mittens keep kazooing in the king’s kitchen.
  22. Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons balancing them badly
  23. Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery
  24. A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
  25. Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
  26. She saw Sharif’s shoes on the sofa. But was she so sure those were Sharif’s shoes she saw?
  27. To begin to toboggan first buy a toboggan, but don’t buy too big a toboggan. Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan to buy to begin to toboggan.
  28. Hassock hassock, black spotted hassock. Black spot on a black back of a black spotted hassock.
  29. On a lazy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser.
  30. Did Dick Pickens prick his pinkie pickling cheap cling peaches in an inch of Pinch or framing his famed French finch photos?
  31. Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.

30 Funny Tongue Twisters

  1. I saw a saw that could out saw any other saw I ever saw.
  2. A big bug bit the little beetle but the little beetle bit the big bug back.
  3. A sailor went to sea To see, what he could see. And all he could see Was sea, sea, sea.
  4. How much wood could a wood chuck; chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood
  5. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, FuzzyWuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy… was he???
  6. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
  7. Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.
  8. Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.
  9. Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes.
  10. A synonym for cinnamon is a cinnamon synonym.
  11. The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes
  12. Six socks sit in a sink, soaking in soap suds
  13. I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen.
  14. Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
  15. Background background, black, black, brown, brown.
  16. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
  17. How many yaks could a yak pack, pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?
  18. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
  19. A big bug bit the little beetle but the little beetle bit the big bug back.
  20. Double bubble gum, bubbles double.
  21. Linda-Lou Lambert Loves Lemon Lollipop Lipgloss
  22. Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear
  23. Susie works in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines she sits, and where she sits she shines
  24. Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.
  25. Fresh French fried fly fritters
  26. Gobbling gorgoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.
  27. Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone.
  28. A shapeless sash sags slowly.
  29. Smelly shoes and socks shock sisters.
  30. 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.

43+ Short Tongue Twisters (for the younger kiddos)

The whole family can get a laugh out of tongue twisters, right?

But sometimes the littlest ones need something a bit easier.

Their attention span isn’t as developed, and they’ll get lost in the lengthier ones.  So we compiled a list just for them!

Even your 2-3 year old children will love getting their tongues tied on these!

  1. Daddy Draws Doors
  2. Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran
  3. Six slippery snails, slid slowly seaward.
  4. Crisp crusts crackle and crunch.
  5. Round the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran.
  6. Susie sits shinning silver shoes
  7. Which wrist watches are Swiss wrist watches?
  8. Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread
  9. Four furious friends fought for the phone
  10. The cat catchers can’t catch caught cats.
  11. Three fluffy feathers fell from Phoebe’s flimsy fan.
  12. She should shun the shinning sun.
  13. Cooks cook cupcakes quickly.
  14. Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar.
  15. Little Lillian lets lazy lizards lie along the lily pads
  16. Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.
  17. Green glass globes glow greenly .
  18. Clean clams crammed in clean cans
  19. slimey snake slithered down the sandy Sahara.
  20. She sees cheese.
  21. Bake big batches of bitter brown bread.
  22. Which witch is which?
  23. Elizabeth has eleven elves in her elm tree.
  24. Red Lorry, yellow lorry
  25. A proper copper coffee pot.
  26. Six sticky skeletons.
  27. Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds.
  28. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
  29. Freshly fried fresh flesh.
  30. A noisy noise annoys an oyster.
  31. Betty’s big bunny bobbled by the blueberry bush
  32. Drew Dodd’s dad’s dog’s dead.
  33. Seventy-seven benevolent elephants
  34. Willie’s really weary
  35. Wayne went to wales to watch walruses
  36. Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely
  37. Six slimy snails sailed silently.
  38. Octopus ocular optics.
  39. Send toast to ten tense stout saints’ ten tall tents.
  40. Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins.
  41. A bragging baker baked black bread.
  42. Shave a single shingle thin.
  43. Dick kicks sticky bricks.

Fun Tongue Twisters from Dr. Seuss

We love the tongue twisters above, but we all know no one compares with the original bard of twisting kids’ tongues: Dr. Seuss.

That’s why one of our favorite Dr. Seuss books is Oh Say Can You Say?

Of course, this book is more than just a set of tongue twisters… It’s a lively classic that kids still love today.

The book is illustrated with all the whimsy of a Dr. Seuss story, and loaded with rhymes and sentences we know you can’t say three times fast.

If this isn’t already part of your collection, it needs to be. Click here to snag Oh Say Can You Say?

 

Benefits of Tongue Twisters

Tongue Twisters can be difficult but such a great fun way to improve a child’s memory and reading skills. Children who practice tongue twisters can improve their English and better their knowledge of rhyming words and you will find that they learn to appreciate sounds.  

Tongue twisters have so many benefits for young children especially when it comes to speech and language. Doing tongue twisters can help exercise their muscles that help lead to clearer pronunciation and gives them the ability to speak clearly.

 Tongue twisters can also help a child recognize what words are difficult for them to pronounce. Try a few of these tongue twisters and you may even notice yourself a word that is difficult for your child to pronounce. When a child knows a certain word is hard to say they can then focus individually on a certain word to master it.Once they master a hard word they can then be more successful at tongue twisters because it will not slow them down. 

Another benefit you will notice of Tongue twisters is increasing your child’s vocabulary. Use these tongue twisters to talk about words they may not know the meaning to just yet. As you introduce new tongue twisters you will find that you are increasing their vocabulary. 

 

Turning Tongue Twisters Into a Game with Your Kids

You can, of course, just run through the list above but why not make a game of it? Here’s how to play the game:

Print the page, cut out each twister line and put them loosely in a bag.

Go around the table and get each person to pull one tongue twister out of the bag for their challenge.

Depending on the age range of those playing or the difficulty of the twister, you can create mini-challenges:

  • See how quickly someone can say their challenge correctly.
  • Try saying the twister over and over and count the number times it’s said before the user messes it up.
  • Say the twister with a straight face, no laughing (this is harder than you think.
  • Play broken telephone, repeating the twister quietly to the person next to you and see what turns out in the end.

 

Now that you and your kids have been challenging each other at tongue twisters if you have an Alexa you can now send the kids to play with your Alexa. Just go to your Alexa, and say Alexa, open tongue twisters. Make sure you have enabled it on your app first and see how well they do!  

 

You could also try your hand at making your own tongue twisters for kids. Do you have a favorite tongue twister that’s not on this list? Share it in the comments! 

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Tongue twisters for children

Collection of children's tongue twisters for speech development, diction improvement and entertainment. You need to read tongue twisters from childhood, because reading tongue twisters and memorizing them help to form a beautiful smooth speech, they teach you to pronounce all the letters without skipping them and not “swallowing”.

Tongue twisters for children on this page are divided into several categories. The most important tongue twisters for improving diction are, of course, “with the letter R” and hissing consonants. Reading complex tongue twisters will help to consolidate skills, and funny children's tongue twisters will help you learn while playing.

Tongue twisters for the letter R

Tongue twisters for the letter R for children. Children's tongue twisters in R improve the child's diction and help develop correct speech.

Grass in the yard

Grass in the yard, firewood on the grass
Do not cut firewood on the grass in the yard.

Carl from Clara

Carl stole corals from Clara,
Clara stole the clarinet from Carl.

Ships tacked

Ships tacked, tacked, but did not catch.

Shopping tongue twister

Tell us about your purchases,
What kind of purchases?
About purchases, about purchases,
About my purchases.

A tongue twister about an otter

An otter dived into a bucket from an otter.
An otter drowned in a bucket of water.

A Greek rode across a river

A Greek rode across a river,
He sees a Greek - cancer in the river.
Threw the Greek hand into the river,
Cancer for the hand of the Greek - tsap!

An otter in the tundra

In the bowels of the tundra
Otters in spats
They dig into buckets
Kernels of cedars!

Otter from an otter
Gaiters in the tundra
Wipe an otter with cedar kernels
Wipe an otter's muzzle with a spatula
Kernels into buckets
Otter into the tundra!

Patter with hissing sounds

Patter with hissing sounds - the most popular tongue twisters for children with complex hissing consonants.

Patter with the letter Zh

A bear cub was frightened
A hedgehog with a hedgehog and a hedgehog,
A swift with a shear and a short haired cub.

Tongue twister with the letter H

Four turtles have four baby turtles.

Four little imps

Four black, grimy little imps
Draw a drawing in black ink.

Patter with the letter Ш

At the edge of the hut
Old chatterboxes live.
Each old woman has a basket,
Each basket has a cat,
Cats in baskets sew boots for old women.

Sasha sewed

Sasha sewed a hat for Sasha,
Sasha knocked a bump off his hat.

Sasha walked along Highway

Sasha was walking along the highway and sucking dry food.

In a hut

Rustling silks in a hut
Yellow dervish from Algeria
And, juggling with knives,
Shtuka is eating a fig.

Hooded cuckoo

Cuckoo bought a hood.
Cuckoo put on a hood.
How funny he is in the hood!

Patter with the letter Щ

Two puppies, cheek to cheek,
Pinch the brush in the corner.

Funny tongue twisters

Simple funny tongue twisters - rhyming rhymes for young children for speech development and entertainment.

Mouse

Mouse crawled under the lid,
To gnaw a crumb under the lid,
Probably the lid for the mouse -
The mouse forgot about the cat!

Koschei

Skinny, weak Koschei
Carrying a box of vegetables.

Forty forty

Cunning magpie to catch trouble,
And forty forty - forty trouble.

Parrot

The parrot said to the parrot:
I'll parrot you, parrot.
The parrot answers him:
Parrot, parrot, parrot!

Karasenok

Carp once crucian
Gave a coloring book.
And Karas said:
"Color, Karasyonok, a fairy tale!"
On the coloring page of the Karasyonka -
Three funny pigs:
The Karasyonka repainted the piglets into crucians!

Complex tongue twisters

The most difficult tongue twisters for children. Known tongue twisters for the development of diction, which you need to try to learn by heart and pronounce without hesitation.

Patter about the Chinese

Once upon a time there were three Chinese - Yak, Yak-Cidrak, Yak-Cidrak-Cidron-Cidroni,
And three more Chinese women - Tsypa, Tsypa-Dripa, Tsypa-Dripa-Lampomponi.
Married Yak on Tsyp, Yak-Tsidrak on Tsype-Drip,
Yak-Tsidrak-Cidron-Cidroni on Tsyp-Dripe-Lampomponi.
Here they had children: Yak with Tsypa - Shah,
Yak-Tsidrak with Tsypa-Drypa - Shah-Sharakh,
Yak-Tsidrak-Tsidroni with Tsypo-Drypa-Lampoponi - Shah-Sharakh-Sharoni.

What is missing

No apricot, coconut, radish,
Halibut, vinegar, kvass and rice,
No compass, longboat and cable,
Thermos, press, Indian sailor,
No bass, no taste, no weight, no demand,
No interest, no question.

Feast at Kira and Fira

At Kira and Fira
There was a feast in the apartment:
Fakir ate marshmallows and
Fakir drank kefir.
A Fira and Kira
They didn't drink kefir,
They didn't eat marshmallow -
They fed the fakir.

Blackberries and strawberries

If you didn't live near the blackberries,
but if you lived near the strawberries,
then strawberry jam is familiar to you
and not at all the usual blackberry jam.
If you lived near a blackberry
, then it means that blackberry jam is familiar to you,
and not at all the usual strawberry jam.
But if you lived near the blackberry
and if you lived near the strawberry
and if you did not spare time for the forest,
then it means that you ate excellent blackberry jam,
strawberry jam every day.

English tongue twisters with translation

Reading tongue twisters in English develops speech in terms of pronunciation of letter combinations unusual for the Russian language. Tongue twisters in English with translation are designed for children over 6 years old who are learning a foreign language.

Groundhog

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

How much firewood would a groundhog throw,
if a groundhog could throw firewood?

Zoo

Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
managing an imaginary menagerie?

Can you imagine an imaginary zookeeper
running an imaginary zoo?

Oyster

Any noise annoys an oyster
but a noisier noise annoys an oyster most.

Any noise irritates the oyster,
but louder noise irritates the oyster even more.

Shells

She sells sea shells at the sea shore,
the shells she sells are the sea-shore shells, I'm sure.

She sells seashells on the beach,
the shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure.

Modern tongue twisters

Children's most modern tongue twisters for the general development of speech. Assume not only memorization by heart, but also pronunciation for speed.

Who wants to talk

Who wants to talk,
He must pronounce
Everything is correct and intelligible,
So that everyone can understand.
We will talk
And we will pronounce
So correctly and clearly,
So that everyone can understand.

Coconut

Coconut cooks cook coconut juice in a quick cooker.

Gazelle

Gazelle's eyes stare at the beaver from behind the spruce.

Lotto

Count Toto plays loto
and Countess Toto knows about it
that Count Toto plays loto,
if Count Toto knew about it,
that Countess Toto knows about it,
that Count Toto plays loto,
then Count Toto would never play lotto in his life.

Other famous tongue twisters

Short tongue twisters that even the smallest children can read and memorize.

Soaps Mila

Soaps Mila soap bear,
Mila dropped the soap.
Mila dropped soap,
Teddy bear was not washed with soap.

Against hooves

Dust flies across the field from the clatter of hooves.

Belka

White snow. White chalk.
White sugar is also white.
But the squirrel is not white.
was not even White.

Jackdaws

Once scaring a jackdaw,
saw a parrot in the bushes.
And that parrot says:
"You scare the jackdaws, pop, scare,
but scaring the jackdaws in the bushes,
don't you dare scare the parrot."

Sonya on a sled

Senka and Sanka are carrying Sonya on a sled.

Boring tongue twisters to improve diction

January 28, 2021LikbezOtdyh

Pronouncing tongue twisters is not only useful for the development of the speech apparatus, but also a lot of fun! There is no need to mumble about boring firewood and a cuckoo in a hood, when there are cool modern tongue twisters that cope with the task no worse than their Old Testament counterparts.

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Patter "b", "e"

  1. The exhibitionist's biceps are small.
  2. Beat the moron bodybuilder Danila.
  3. Brandenburg rhododendrons from the arboretum.
  4. In Kabardino-Balkaria valocordin from Bulgaria.

Tongue twisters for "t", "d"

  1. Konstantin stated the incident with the quartermaster and the precedent with the applicant.
  2. On the screw, you can see the views of the well-worn "Windows".

Tongue twisters with “p”

  1. Khariton has four crayfish and three newts in his aquarium.
  2. Get a job, it's hard to get a job without a job.
  3. Terminator does not require a thermometer. The terminator has subfebrile temperature.
  4. There is a parade in the yard, I am glad about the parade, I will go to the parade, I will take my camera.
  5. The provider-barbarian steals, the drivers are firewood, expel the provider.
  6. The chamber junker darted into the bunker.
  7. Forgot Pankrat Kondratov jack. Kondrat without a jack cannot be lifted on the tract by a tractor.
  8. In the depths of the tundra, otters in leggings
    They dig into buckets of cedar kernels.
    Having ottered spats from an otter in the tundra,
    I'll wipe the otter's kernels of cedar,
    I'll wipe the muzzle of an otter with a gaiter,
    An otter - into the tundra, kernels - into buckets!
  9. The longboat has arrived at the port of Madras.
    A sailor brought a mattress on board.
    In the port of Madras, a sailor's mattress
    Albatrosses tore in a fight.

L tongue twisters

  1. Have you seen me in invisible? I wouldn't get out of an invisible.
  2. Linoleum faded, faded, poly-blended and faded.
  3. It is not clear whether the shares are liquid or illiquid.
  4. Do you have taxable grace?
  5. Is this colonialism?
    — No, this is not colonialism, but neo-colonialism!
  6. The depilated fillet was defiled on a Fildepers defile.
  7. Once there was a case in distant Macau:
    Macaque koala in cocoa macala,
    Koala lazily lapping cocoa,
    Macaque macaque, koala hiccupping.

Tongue twisters for "r", "l"

  1. Admiral dev selected, measured and died.
  2. Vera knocks Valera out of a revolver.
  3. Banderlog gang is hungry in the lair and robbed naked by orcs.
  4. The prosecutor pierced the protocol with a hole punch.
  5. It would be nice to go to Prokhor's funeral.
  6. Karl stole a Maclaren from Clara, and Clara stole a Corvette from Karl.

Tongue twisters for "g"

  1. Geologist Georgy is the hero of gay orgies.
  2. A creature hunter with the head of a naked tin ox - holootin oxhead.

Hissing tongue twisters

  1. Shiva was walking along the highway, crushing existence, and Sasha was walking towards her, round sucking.
  2. In a hut, a yellow dervish from Algeria rustles silks and, juggling with knives, eats a fig.
  3. Dasha has whiskey in her pocket for Natasha.
  4. Announcement by means of broadcasting: "To all townspeople with things for a meeting. "
  5. Sasha herself is perfection itself, and she is also improving herself!
  6. Even your neck, even your ears are stained with black ink.
    Get in the shower soon. Rinse mascara off your ears under the shower.
    Rinse the mascara off your neck under the shower. Dry off after shower.
    Dry neck, dry ears, and do not dirty your ears anymore.

Tongue twisters with "n"

  1. Popcorn bag.
  2. Once a jackdaw scaring a pop,
    I noticed a parrot in the bushes,
    And then a parrot says:
    “You scare the jackdaws, pop, scare.
    But, only jackdaws, pop, scaring,
    Don't you dare scare a parrot!

Tongue twisters for "v", "z"

  1. The platoon commander squealed with a brutal squeal.
  2. There was an overload of watermelons from body to body. In a thunderstorm, in the mud from a load of watermelons, the body collapsed.

Tongue twisters with "s"

  1. The orderly overtook the master of Instagram * with a hundred grams in an instant.
  2. The merchandisers lied - samovar sampling failed!
  3. Miley Cyrus fled from Mars, lathered on Sirius.

Tongue twister with "x"

  1. Ads of grips had seams with coverage, and potholders without coverage were snatched up.

How to practice a tongue twister

  1. Do not try to quickly pronounce a tongue twister right away. First, read it aloud as slowly as possible and memorize each word.
  2. Then say the tongue twister several times, articulating the sounds exaggeratedly. You can do this to yourself: at this stage, your lips should simply remember every movement. If the tongue twister is long, break it into parts.
  3. Once you have mastered the articulation, start pronouncing the tongue twister in a whisper. Try to make sure that every sound is heard. Whispers should be quiet, but legible.
  4. Start saying the tongue twister slowly in full voice. Don't rush, the speed will increase over time.
  5. Determine which parts of the tongue twister are the most difficult for you, and practice them.

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