How to make tongue twisters


How to Write a Tongue Twister – Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry4kids.com

Tongue twisters are one of the most fun forms of wordplay for kids. The more challenging they are to speak, the more fun they can be. Most tongue twisters take one of three forms:

  1. Phrases that are hard to repeat several times in a row, such as “toy boat” or “unique New York.”
  2. Phrases or sentences that are hard to say, such as “she sells sea shells by the seashore” or “rubber baby buggy bumpers.”
  3. Poems like “Betty Botter” by Carolyn Wells.

You can create your own tongue twisters too. All you need is a pencil and paper, and a little imagination. Let me show you how.

Alliteration Tongue Twisters

The simplest form of tongue twister is one that simply uses alliteration, where the words you use all have the same first consonant sound. A classic example of this is:

Round the rugged rock, the ragged rascal ran.

You’ll notice that most of the words in this sentence start with the letter “r. ” However, what makes the sentence a tongue twister is not just that the words start with the same consonant sound, but that they have different vowel sounds as well: “ow” in round, “uh” in rugged, “ah” in rock, and a short “a” in ragged, rascal, and ran. Moreover, “rugged” and “ragged” are so similar, that it’s easy to get them mixed up.

“Betty Botter” uses a similar technique.

Betty Botter bought some butter;
“But,” said she, “this butter’s bitter!

As you can see, this tongue twister poem uses alliteration with the letter “b” and also uses similar words like Botter, butter, and bitter, as well as Betty, bought, and but.

You can create your own alliterative tongue twister by following these steps:

  1. Pick a consonant.
  2. Write down as many words as you can think of that start with that letter. The more alike they sound, the better.
  3. Make up a sentence that uses as many of your words as possible.

For example, let’s say we use the letter “p.” Here are some words that start with “p”:

  • Peter
  • Potter
  • Poodle
  • Peanut butter

You could string these together like this:

Peter Potter put a poodle in his peanut butter.

Now it’s your turn. Pick a letter and see if you can think of a bunch of similar sounding words that you can string together into a sentence. Try this with several different letters and see which one is the hardest to say.

More Advanced Tongue Twisters

If you want to write more challenging tongue twisters – ones that are harder to speak without tripping up – here are a couple of things you can do:

Almost Alliteration

Find consonant letter combinations that are almost alliterative, but not quite, such as “c,” “cl,” and “cr.” For example, you might write something like this:

Cam crammed creamed clams in clean clam cans.

Another example is using the letters “s,” “th,” and “f,” as in this famous tongue twister:

Theophilus Thistle, the thistle sifter,
Sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles.

You could even make your own version of this one by finding other words with similar sounds. How about something like this?

My sister sifted thistles by the fistful.

Reversing Similar Sounds

Find words that sound almost the same, but reverse the positions of the letter sounds. This is why “she sells seashells by the seashore” is one of the most famous tongue twisters. Reversing the positions of “s” and “sh” in “she sells” and “sea shells” makes it difficult to say. I used this particular tongue twister for the basis of my poem “Shelley Sellers” from my book My Hippo Has the Hiccups.

For example, I wrote  a poem called “Gabby Bought a Baby Beagle” for my book The Tighty-Whitey Spider. In this poem, the words “Gabby” and “Beagle” reverse the positions of the “g” and the “b,” and even throw in the word “baby” which has two b’s, making it especially difficult to say.

Tongue Twister Poems

Once you’ve practiced and can do all of this, at last comes the trickiest part of all: Creating a tongue twister poem. To turn your tongue twisters into poems, all you have to do is write several lines of tongue twisters, with rhyming words at the ends of the lines, and hopefully tell a little story. Betty Botter is a classic example, as is the famous poem, Ned Nott and Sam Shott.

Here’s an example of a tongue twister poem I wrote using all of the above techniques.

My Sister Sifted Thistles

My sister sifted thistles by the fistful.
My sister sifted thistles by the shore.
My sister whistled wistfully
while sifting thistles fistfully
until her fists were bristly and sore.

My sister sifted thistles by the fistful.
My sister sifted thistles by the shore.
Her thistle-sifting history
made sister’s fists all blistery,
so now she sifts no thistles anymore.

Are you ready to have fun writing your own tongue twisters? Start by writing short tongue twisters, with practice, you’ll get better and better at it, and eventually you’ll be amazing your friends with your own tongue twister poems.

More Tongue Twisters

If you would like to read even more, check out the world’s largest collection of tongue twisters in 118 different languages, including nearly 600 in English.

100 Tongue Twisters to Perfect Pronunciation in English

Diana Lăpușneanu in Language Tips | August 23, 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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Patter for the development of speech and diction in adults, exercises to improve diction and speech

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Tongue twisters and tongue twisters improve diction. These are short phrases or whole sentences built on complex combinations of consonants and vowels, so their regular pronunciation helps to practice clarity of speech. Tongue twisters are used by professional announcers, speakers and actors. With their help, correct, improve diction. Doing special exercises with tongue twisters is useful for everyone who wants to achieve a beautiful, natural pronunciation, without “swallowing” individual sounds or syllables.

How to work with tongue twisters to improve diction

Speech therapists use tongue twisters to teach children and adults to pronounce similar sounds intelligibly. We are talking about sounds, for the formation of which the tongue, jaw, facial muscles make similar movements. Most often, difficulties arise with "l" and "r": both sounds require the tongue to rise to the palate, while its tip remains soft. Another pair of problematic sounds is “s” and “sh”, “m” and “n”. If your speech is not clear enough, you are most likely slurring one of these groups of sounds. It is difficult to determine a hearing defect on your own, so consult a speech therapist or a teacher of oratory at least a couple of times to give recommendations on how to improve diction. Tongue twisters are built on a combination of a pair of similar, hard to distinguish sounds, so they help to effectively develop speech. Ideally, you should go through all pairs of sounds and all groups of tongue twisters, but if there are problems with the pronunciation of "l", "r", "w", "s" or other sounds, you should start training with tongue twisters for "problem" syllables. The standard exercise program with tongue twisters suggests the following sequence: first, deaf hissing, then whistling and voiced, and finally sonorous sounds. This order is not accidental, because dull sounds are the easiest to pronounce, sonorants are the most difficult. Not without reason, most often in children and adults there are problems with the sonorous "r" and "l". Of course, you can practice in any order, and the improvement in speech will become noticeable over time. But the results will be faster and more tangible if the correct sequence is followed.

How to work with tongue twisters for children and adults

The first stage of training. Practicing hissing and deaf sounds: "p", "t", "sh", "s".
  • Sasha walked along the highway and sucked dry.
  • Sasha hit a bump by mistake with his hat.
  • There is a catfish with a mustache in Senya and Sanya.
  • Forty mice walked and found six pennies, and worse mice found two pennies each.
Second phase. Setting whistling and voiced: "h", "c", "u":
  • The predator is prowling in the grove - the predator is looking for food.
  • In the grove, stirring the grass, we will pick up sorrel.
  • Turtle, not bored, sits for an hour with a cup of tea.
  • The heron has withered, the heron has withered, the heron has died.
Third stage. Work with sonorous sounds: "m", "n", "l", "p":
  • Have the lilies watered, or have the lilies withered?
  • Grass in the yard, firewood on the grass, don't cut firewood on the grass in the yard!
  • Staffordshire Terrier is zealous, and the black-haired Giant Schnauzer is frisky.
  • We ate-ate ruff at the spruce; they were barely eaten at the spruce.
  • The rolling "er" is not in vain sonorous: growls and rumbles in hard work!

Speed ​​of tongue twisters

When you start working with tongue twisters, do not pronounce them quickly. To improve speech, you need to increase the pace gradually, carefully monitoring the diction. Take one tongue twister, for example: "Karl stole corals from Clara." First, say it very slowly and silently - just move your lips as if you are talking, but do not make a sound. Then say "Karl stole the corals from Clara" slowly and in a whisper. Make sure that each sound is pronounced very carefully, deliberately. For the third time, say the tongue twister at a natural pace and in full voice. If you can’t immediately say “Karl stole corals from Clara” without hesitation, speak a little slower than usual. Only when you can say “Karl stole corals from Clara” in a calm, conversational rhythm, say the same remark at a fast pace. All attention - on the clarity of diction and articulation! The main thing is not speed, it will come with time. The correct pronunciation of each sound is more important. The final stage is pronunciation with an obstacle, a “cork” for the tongue: pebbles or nuts, which will make articulation difficult. This is an effective way to improve diction. Take your time, talk to the stones slowly at first, then faster. So you need to work out each selected tongue twister, and more than once. If you are not a professional, it is enough to practice for half an hour 5-6 days a week in order to achieve a significant improvement in diction in a month with such exercises. Often students of rhetoric courses enthusiastically get down to business, but quickly cool off. To prevent this from happening, do not try to embrace the immensity in one day: half an hour of exercise is enough. Better half an hour every day or at least every other day than two hours once a week. Pay attention to correct speech.

Intonation of pronunciation of tongue twisters

Good diction is not only clear articulation, but also expressiveness of speech. Therefore, during exercises with tongue twisters, monotony should be avoided. Try to understand the meaning of the remark and say it with expression. Your speech should not sound like a set of clear, understandable, but meaningless sounds: emphasize important words with your voice, lower and raise your tone. Monotony is one of the problems of lecturers, educators and other speakers. To get rid of it, play with the intonation of speech. For example, take the classic saying: "Sasha walked along the highway and sucked dry." At first say it coldly and with contempt, as if you do not approve of Sasha's actions. Then - as if you don't like drying. Next - say the same joyfully and cheerfully, easily and naturally. Give your voice an air of mystery, as if you're sharing a secret. The more intonations you can pronounce one and the same tongue twister, the more expressive your everyday speech will be.

Short tongue twisters for adults

Start with concise tongue twisters and do not rush to move on to more complex and long phrases. Develop speech gradually. You need to pronounce tongue twisters in one breath, and if your speech apparatus is not yet sufficiently developed, there will not be enough breath for a long remark. The long breath develops over time.
  • The scarlet reflection of the Himalayas fell on the fields of Nepal.
  • The baker baked a loaf, a loaf, a bagel early in the morning.
  • Four Sashas were playing checkers on the grass in the yard.
  • The galley messenger was burned.
  • Two puppies are pinching the brush in the corner cheek to cheek.
  • Quartermaster incident.
  • To the Habsburgs from Strasbourg.
  • The Queen gave the Cavalier a caravel.
  • Rigoletto libretto.
  • There is no ring near the well.
  • Quail quail hid from the guys.
  • Regulator Ligurian regulated in Liguria.
  • Net caught on a knot.
  • A falcon sat on a bare trunk.
  • Christmas tree needles.
  • Pharaonic favorite for sapphire was replaced by jade.
  • Heron chick tenaciously clung to the flail.
  • Cannons were being lowered from hills and rocks.
  • Tongs and pincers - these are our things.
  • Jasper in suede.

Long tongue twisters for developing diction

Move on to long and complex tongue twisters only after you begin to naturally and naturally pronounce short lines. When they seem too simple to you, and you won't stumble over even the most complex combinations of sounds, this means that you are ready for the next step in working on diction. Long tongue twisters are also pronounced in one breath, but if there are several stanzas, you can make small pauses to take air into your lungs. Do not forget to correctly intonate the text! Your speech should not be monotonous, even if you speak very quickly.
  • Pankrat Kondratov forgot the jack, and without a jack Pankrat can't lift the tractor on the tract. And the tractor is waiting on the tract for a jack.
  • On Thursday the fourth at four and a quarter, the Ligurian traffic controller regulated in Liguria, but thirty-three ships tacked, tacked, and did not catch.
  • The commander spoke about the colonel and about the colonel, about the lieutenant colonel and about the lieutenant colonel, about the lieutenant and about the lieutenant, about the second lieutenant and about the second lieutenant, about the ensign and about the ensign, about the lieutenant colonel, but kept silent about the lieutenant.
  • King Clarick has a king, Queen Carlisle has a dwarf. The dwarf is Karl, and the king is Clara. Clara has a clarinet, Karl has corals. Clara stole the corals from Karl, and Karl stole the clarinet from Clara. Clara does not have a clarinet, but there are corals. Karl has a clarinet, but no corals. The Queen of Carlisle punished Clara for stealing corals from the dwarf Karl, and Klarik the King of Carl punished the one who stole the clarinet from the thief. If Carl had not stolen from Clara, then Clara would not have stolen the corals, Clarick would have listened to the clarinet of his steal, and Carl gave the corals to Carlisle.

Compound tongue twisters

The length of a tongue twister is not equal to its complexity. Of course, it is more difficult to pronounce a long remark in one breath than a concise phrase. But what really makes it difficult is complex combinations of sounds. Short complex phrases can be trained immediately, and go to long ones only after working out simple stanzas.
  • The snout was a white-faced pig; I dug up half the yard with a snout, dug, undermined.
  • You don't wear trousers instead of a shirt, you don't ask for rutabagas instead of watermelon, you can always distinguish a number from a letter, and can you distinguish between ash and beech?
  • Karl put the bow on the chest, Clara stole the bow from the chest.
  • Sixteen mice walked and six found pennies, and the mice, which are worse, noisily rummage around for pennies.
  • 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.
  • The queen had a cavalier. The cavalier had a queen. Who is the queen? And who is the cavalier?

Funny tongue twisters

This is a kind of complex exercises for diction. But it's nice to work with them, because such phrases sound like jokes. Try to give them additional comedy with the help of intonation.
  • A lilac little eye-picker, jumping with a pre-subverted, not at all a fancy cultist and does not vomit.
  • Terminator does not require a thermometer.
  • Thirty-three deputies lobbied for the law, lobbied, but did not lobbied.
  • Do you have taxable grace?
  • On the screw, you can see the views of the well-worn Winda.
  • The higher echelons of the undershow marched to the subsidized along the highway.
  • Exhibitionist's biceps are small.

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93. (R, m, t) - Margarita collected daisies on the mountain, Margarita lost daisies in the yard.

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94. (S, n) - Senya carries hay in the vestibule, Senya will sleep in the hay.

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95. (S, m, n) - In seven sledges, seven Semyonov with a mustache sat in the sleigh themselves.

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96. (S, k, v, r) - A quick talker was quick to say that you can’t speak all tongue twisters, you won’t speak too quickly, but having started speaking quickly, he spoke quickly - that you will re-speak all tongue twisters, you will re-speak all tongue twisters. And tongue twisters jump like carp in a frying pan.

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97. (S, k, p, r) - Just as you cannot re-speak all tongue twisters, do not re-speak quickly, so you cannot re-speak all quick proverbs, do not re-speak quickly, and only all fast sayings can be re-speak, re-speak quickly!

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98. (S, c) - Senka is carrying Sanka and Sonya on a sled. Sledge lope, Senka from his feet, Sonya in the forehead, all in a snowdrift.

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99. (C) - A wasp does not have a mustache, not a mustache, but antennae.

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100. (S, m, n) - At Senya with Sanya in nets of catfish with whiskers.

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101. (S, k, r) - Catch a tricky magpie, and forty forty - forty troubles.

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102. (S, n, k) - Senka is carrying Sanka and Sonya on a sled. Sledge lope, Senka from his feet, Sanka in the side, Sonya in the forehead, all in a snowdrift.

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103. (S, r, t) - Longboat 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.

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104. (T, r, s) - Wahmister with a wahmister, captain with a captain.

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105. (T) - Stands, stands at the gate.

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106. (T,k) - The weaver weaves fabrics for Tanya's scarves.

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107. (T, k) - To interpret plainly, Yes, it is useless to interpret.

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108. (T,t) - Fedka eats radish with vodka, Fedka eats vodka with radish.

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109. (T, p) - Whipping in a hurry is not for the future. Torushke crust for the future.

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110. (T) - Don't go so-and-so, don't ask for so-and-so - here's something for you.

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111. (Т,к) - The Turk smokes a pipe, the trigger pecks at the grains. Don't smoke a Turk's pipe, don't peck the cock's grits.

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112. (F,ch,n) - Feofan Mitrofanych has three sons Feofanych.

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113. (F) - Fofanov's sweatshirt Fefele fit.

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114. (F,d,b,r) - Defibrillator defibrillated defibrillated but not defibrillated.

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115. (F,r) - Pharaoh's favorite for sapphire was replaced by jade.

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116. (F, l, v) - I was at Frol's, I lied to Frol about Lavra, I'll go to Lavr, Lavr at Frol Navra.

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117. (X, t) - Crested laughter girls laughed with laughter: Xa! Xa! Ha!

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118. (Х,ч,п) - There was a commotion in the garden -
Thistle blossomed there.
So that your garden does not decay,
Weed thistles.

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119. (X, w) - Khrushchi grab horsetails.
Hina is enough for cabbage soup.

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120. (C,p) - The heron chick tenaciously clung to the flail.

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121. (C, x) - The heron has withered, the heron has dried up, the heron has died.

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122. (C,r) - Well done ate thirty-three pies with a pie, all with cottage cheese.

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123. (C) - Well done among the sheep, but against the good fellow the sheep himself.

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124. (Ts,k,p,d,r) - Once upon a time there were three Chinese
Yak, Yak-Tsi-Drak and Yak-Tsi-Drak-Tsi-Drak-Tsi-Droni.
Once upon a time there were three Chinese women
Tsypa, Tsypa-Dripa and Tsypa-Dripa-Limpomponi.

Here they got married:
Yak on Tsype Yak-Tsi-Drak on Tsype-drip
Yak-Tsi-Drak-Tsi-Drak-Tsi-Droni on Tsype-Dripe-Limpomponi.

And they had children:
Yak and Tsypa have Shah,
Yak-Tsy has a fight with Tsypa-dripa - Shah-Shahmoni,
At Yak-Tsi-Drak-Tsi-Drak-Tsi-Droni
With Chick-Dripa-Limpomponi -
Shah-Shahmoni-Limpomponi.

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125. (H,t) - A quarter of a pea quarter, without a wormhole.

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126. (H, w, w) - Scales at the pike, bristle at the pike.

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127. (H) - Our daughter is well-spoken, her speech is clear.

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128. (H) - Turtle, not bored, sits for an hour with a cup of tea.

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129. (Ch,r) - Four black, grimy imps drew a drawing with black ink extremely cleanly.

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130. (Ch,r) - Four turtles have four turtles.

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131. (H) - Bullish custom, calf mind.

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132. (H, w) - Three birds are flying through three empty huts.

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133. (W, s) - Sasha walked along the highway, carried a dryer on a pole and sucked a dryer.

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134. (Sh) - Even your neck, even your ears, you 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.

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135. (Sh) - The higher echelons marched under the influence.

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136. (W, W) - A yellow dervish from Algeria rustles silks in a hut and, juggling with knives, eats a fig.

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137. (W) - Shishiga was walking along the highway, his pants were rustling. The step will step, whisper: "Mistake". Ears wiggle.

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138. (Sh) - Six little mice rustle in the reeds.

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139. (W) - Boxwood, boxwood, how tightly sewn you are.

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140. (W, M) - Jasper in suede suede.

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141. (Sh) - Forty mice were walking, carrying sixteen pennies, two smaller mice were carrying two pennies.

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142. (W, k) - Two puppies, cheek to cheek, pinch the cheek in the corner.

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143. (W, p) - Staffordshire terrier zealous, and black-haired giant schnauzer frisky.

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144. (Sh,s) - Sasha has whey from yogurt in his porridge.

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145. (W, k) - Sasha has cones and checkers in his pocket.

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146. (Sh, k, v, r) - The cook cooked porridge, cooked it and undercooked it.

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147. (W, W) - Piston - not a hornet:
does not buzz, glides quietly.

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148. (Sh,r,k) - Earrings have disappeared from the little nesting doll.
Earrings Earring found on the path.

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149. (Sh,s,k) - Sunflowers are looking at the sun,
And the sun is looking at sunflowers.

But the sun has many sunflowers,
And the sun has one sun.

Under the sun, the sunflower laughed sunnyly while ripening.
Ripened, dried up, pecked.

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150. (W, R) - Ball bearing balls rummage around the bearing.

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151. (W, s) - Sasha quickly dries dryers.
Sushek dried six pieces.
And the old women are in a funny hurry
Sushka Sasha to eat.

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152. (Sh, p, k) - Yeryoma and Foma have sashes - wide across their backs,
The caps are recapped, new,
Yes, the hat is well sewn, covered with embroidered velvet.

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153. (Sh,r) - Shushera shusher rustled,
That the rustle of shusher prevented rustling.

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154. (Sh) - Mother Romasha gave whey from curdled milk.

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155. (Sh,k) - Troshkina mongrel
Bit Pashka.
Beats Pashka with a hat
Troshkin's mongrel.

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156. (Sh,h,h) - Under the mountain near the pine edge
Once upon a time there were four old women,
All four big talkers.
The whole day on the threshold of the hut
Chattered like turkeys.
The cuckoos fell silent on the pines,
The frogs crawled out of the puddle,
The poplars tilted their tops -
Hear that the old women are chatting.

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157. (Sh,k,p) - Pashka's mongrel bit Pavka on the leg, beats Pavka's mongrel with his hat.

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158. (Sch,t) - The pike tries in vain to pinch the bream.

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159. (Sch,t) - I'm dragging, I'm dragging… I'm afraid I won't drag it,
But I definitely won't let it out.


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