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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

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.

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.

31. 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.
32. 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!
33. 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.
34. 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.
35. 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.

36. 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.
37. 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.
38. 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?
39. 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.
40. 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.

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!

41. Pad kid poured curd pulled cod.
42. If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
43. Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons — balancing them badly.
44. Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
45. Can you can a canned can into an un-canned can like a canner can can a canned can into an un-canned can?
46. The sixth sick sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick.
47. Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.
48. Ingenious iguanas improvising an intricate impromptu on impossibly-impractical instruments.
49. I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop
    Where she shines, she sits, and where she sits, she shines.
50. 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?
51. These thousand tricky tongue twisters trip thrillingly off the tongue.
52. Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.
53. Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons—balancing them badly.
54. A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
55. Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.
56. He threw three free throws.
57. Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear.
58. Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone.
59. Chop shops stock chops.

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!

60. Blue bluebird.
61. Four fine fresh fish for you.
62. Daddy Draws Doors.
63. Three free throws.
64. The big bug bit the little beetle.
65. Friendly fleas and fireflies.
66. Fresh fried fish.
67. The raging ram runs ’round rugged Ricky to hit Mickey.
68. Specific Pacific.
69. Tommy tossed his twelfth tooth when it turned two times.
70. Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread.
71. Betty’s big bunny bobbled by the blueberry bush.
72. Six sticky skeletons.
73. Green glass globes glow greenly.
74. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?
75. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
76. Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
77. I scream, you scream,
    We all scream for ice cream.
78. Bouncing bed bugs borrowed blankets.
79. Perspicacious Polly Perkins purchased Peter’s product
    And peddled pickles to produce a pretty profit!

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!

80. 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.
81. 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.
82. 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.
83. Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye.
    If cows could fly I’d have a cow pie in my eye.
84. 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.
85. 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!
86. I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.
87. 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

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

Tongue twisters with R and L

91. Red lorry, yellow lorry.
92. A really leery Larry rolls readily to the road.
93. Rory’s lawn rake rarely rakes really right.
94. Lucky rabbits like to cause a ruckus.
95. I looked right at Larry’s rally and left in a hurry.
96. Round and round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.

Tongue twisters with TH

97. The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
98. 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.
99. 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.
100. 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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102 Tongue Twisters for Kids (To Practice Speaking)

Tongue twisters for kids are not just an easy way to elicit a few giggles. They can also be an excellent tool to boost language skills, improve brain function, and promote confidence.

Many professionals who speak in front of an audience use tongue twisters to warm-up, and they are also used in the treatment of some speech impediments.

Get set to reap the benefits of tongue twisters by exploring this fascinating topic.

Table of Contents

• What Are Tongue Twisters?
• Benefits of Tongue Twisters for Kids
• Funny Tongue Twisters for Kids
• Easy Tongue Twisters for Kids
• Short Tongue Twisters for Kids
• Hard Tongue Twisters for Kids
• Famous Tongue Twisters for Kids
• What Is the Hardest Tongue Twister in the World?
• Which Tongue-Tripping Tongue Twister Trips Your Tongue?

What Are Tongue Twisters?

A tongue twister is any set or series of words that are difficult to say, correctly, quickly, and in sequence.

They may or may not make sense. But the goal of a good tongue twister isn’t to make sense, so that’s okay.

For example:

I have got a date at a quarter to eight; I’ll see you at the gate, so don’t be late:

This tongue twister is also a short poem, and the words are in an order that makes sentences we can understand.

Weathered weather leather better:

This is also a tongue twister, but the words are not in an order that makes sense as a sentence.

Benefits of Tongue Twisters for Kids

So, back to those claims that tongue twisters have brain, language, and confidence-boosting benefits.

Here’s an overview of some of those benefits.

• Speaking is a motor skill. The brain must learn to connect each sound we make to a series of specific muscle movements. Tongue twisters can help to strengthen these brain-muscle connections.
• Tongue twisters stretch and work the muscles we use when speaking and this helps us pronounce words more clearly. Children with clearer pronunciation will experience less frustration when attempting to share their needs, thoughts, and feelings.
• Having fun playing with tongue twisters provides a low-pressure way to talk about words and their meanings. During these chats, you can discuss and reinforce rhyming, vocabulary, antonyms, synonyms, and other important aspects of language.
• Kids who have strong speech and language skills are more likely to speak with confidence. That also makes them more likely to ask questions and take on leadership roles.
• Tongue twisters require the speaker to slow down, pay attention, speak precisely, and practice repetition. These skills can be beneficial in other areas of life.

Ready to get your child started on these fun word challenges? Or maybe you want to practice some to impress your child before you introduce them to the world of tongue twisters. Either way, you may be familiar with a few tongue twisters, but here are 102 examples so you have plenty to choose from.

Funny Tongue Twisters for Kids

These are not only amusing on their own, but you’re also likely to crack up laughing at the linguistic mistakes they induce.

If you know your child is motivated by humor, these are a great place to start.

1. A big black bug bit a big black dog.
2. The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes.
3. Smelly shoes and socks shock sisters.
4. Chester Cheetah chews a chunk of cheap cheddar.
5. Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fish.
6. Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread.
7. A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
8. How much caramel can a canny cannonball cram in a camel if a canny cannonball can cram caramel in a camel?
9. If colored caterpillars could change their colors constantly could they keep their colored coat colored properly?
10. Did Dick Dickens prick his pinkie picking cheap pickles?
11. I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen.
12. Six sticky skeletons.
13. Ned Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not, so is it better to be Shott than Nott?
14. Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread, spread it thick, say it quick.
15. There was a fisherman named Fisher who fished for some fish in a fissure. ‘Til a fish with a grin pulled the fisherman in. Now they’re fishing the fissure for Fisher.
16. If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?
17. I was born on a short, shiny, ship at shore.
18. One-one was one racehorse. Two-two was one too. One-one won one race. Two-two won one too.
19. Gobbling gargoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.
20. Pirates’ private property chest.
21. Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye.
22. How many cans can a cannibal nibble if a cannibal can nibble cans? As many cans as a cannibal can nibble if a cannibal can nibble cans.
23. A snake sneaks to seek a snack.

Easy Tongue Twisters for Kids

For younger children, those with less confidence, or kids with additional speech challenges, begin with one or more of these easy twisters.  They won’t be as frustrating as some of the longer and more complicated ones. Once these are mastered, you can move on to the harder twisters.

24. He threw three balls.
25. Eddie edited it.
26. Mommy made me eat my M&Ms.
27. Busy buzzing bumblebees.
28. Big nose, big blows.
29. Friendly fleas and fireflies.
30. Popular peppers popping.
31. Sing, ping, sling, pling.
32. Splish, splash, splosh, went the dog in the wash.
33. Bella laughed ‘til she barfed.
34. What a terrible tongue twister.
35. Annie and Andy’s April anniversary.
36. How many cookies could a good cook cook If a good cook could cook cookies?
37. Two tried and true tridents.
38. Loose lips long licks.
39. Four furious friends fought for the phone.
40. Great glass globes glow greenly.
41. Stanley stands sadly on the steep steps.
42. The queen in green screams.
43. Bears breathe blackberries.
44. Rubber rudders bounce.
45. A happy hippo hopped and hiccupped.

Short Tongue Twisters for Kids

Short tongue twisters for kids are great for those with a shorter attention span. That makes them a good choice for younger kids or those who suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder.

These short ones won’t be as entertaining or funny as some of the others on the overall list, though.

46. She sees cheese.
47. The black bat’s back.
48. Daddy draws doors.
49. Red lorry, yellow lorry.
50. Fresh French fried fly fritters.
51. Irish wristwatch.
52. Red Buick, blue Buick.
53. Flashy fish massage.
54. Selfish shellfish.
55. Double bubble gum, bubbles double.
56. Greet with glee.
57. Eleven benevolent elephants.
58. Ed had edited it.
59. Slap shot shiner.
60. She threw three balls.
61. Specific Pacific.
62. Flash place.
63. Stop said Sid.
64. Sheena leads, Sheila needs.
65. Russian Rob runs.
66. Santa’s short suit shrunk.
67. Big black bugs.
68. Pirates’ private plank.
69. Rudder valve reversals.
70. Stupid superstition.
71. Argyle gargoyle.

Hard Tongue Twisters for Kids

If you have a little tongue twister master in the home, challenge them with these fun and hilarious examples.

Since these are more difficult, they should keep them happily practicing for a while.

72. Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
73. Shave a single shingle thin.
74. I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. Upon the slitted sheet I sit.
75. 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.
76. Rugged rubber baby buggy bumpers.
77. Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.
78. Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.
79. Sort three short sword sheaths.
80. Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.
81. Wide right turns.
82. Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons — balancing them badly.
83. Send toast to ten tense stout saints’ ten tall tents.
84. Supposed to be pink pistachio, supposed to be pistachio pink.
85. The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
86. Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards.
87. Opposite octopus ocular optics.
88. Dark dusty disks.
89. Seven sleazy shysters in sharkskin suits sold sheared sealskins to seasick sailors.
90. Shut up the shutters and sit in the shop.
91. If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.

Famous Tongue Twisters for Kids

How many of these famous tongue twisters for kids do you know? You can let your child know that these were popular way back in the day when you were little.

Try not to be disheartened by their amazed expressions when they have trouble picturing you as a child.

92. 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?
93. I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop. Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
94. If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?
95. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
96. Betty Botter bought some butter, But she said 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 batter better. So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.
97. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
98. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Then Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?
99. Whether the weather be fine or whether the weather be not, whether the weather be cold or whether the weather be hot, we’ll weather the weather whatever the weather, whether we like it or not.
100. 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 so much.
101. She sells sea shells by the seashore, and the shells she sells by the seashore are sea shells for sure.
102. Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.

In 2013, a team from MIT, in conjunction with Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Conn., Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, used tongue twisters to research the brain’s speech planning process ⁽¹⁾.

They recorded volunteers saying or trying to say both word list and full sentence tongue twisters. One stood out as so difficult most people couldn’t say it once, let alone ten times fast.

As a result, they declared the most difficult tongue twister in the world to be:

“pad kid poured curd pulled cod.”

Whether you’re in the car, on the bus, waiting in line, or anywhere else with a few minutes on your hands, tongue twisters are a fabulous way to distract, amuse, and entertain your child.

You can use them for some covert teaching, as a way to boost confidence, or to create a moment where you and your child are focused purely on each other.

Who knew that Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers would be so useful?

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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 depths 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

The bear cub was frightened
Hedgehog with a hedgehog and with a hedgehog,
Swift with a shear and a haircut.

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-Sharah-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 pop in the bushes,
don't you dare scare the parrot."

Sonya on a sled

Senka and Sanka are carrying Sonya on a sled.

Tongue twisters for children - I am happy MOM

Tongue twisters for children are funny poems for the development of speech and diction. Agree, it's nice to listen to a beautiful, correct speech, when a person clearly pronounces each sound and pronounces all the endings; when everything is clear and you do not need to guess what the interlocutor had in mind.

Many mistakenly believe that the ability to speak beautifully is a special talent, a gift that not everyone can be honored with. This is a big misconception.

To improve colloquial speech, tongue twisters were invented - small rhymes built from difficult-to-pronounce words, syllables and sounds.

On our website we have collected online poems for every taste. The section "patter for children" presents rhyming quatrains for the development of speech and improvement of diction, for learning English and just for fun.

We have divided tongue twisters for children into several sections. In the first two, we have collected touching rhymes for staging the “r” sound and funny tongue twisters to amuse the little ones. The next three included short rhymes for practicing hissing consonants [zh], [sh], [h], [u], complex tongue twisters “for advanced” and modern tongue twisters. The last section includes English quatrains with translation for those who study a foreign language, as well as other beautiful tongue twisters.

Tongue twisters for children starting with the letter "r"

In this section, we have collected online tongue twisters, working through which the child learns to pronounce the sound "r". For some reason, of all the sounds, this one is the most difficult for a child. To pronounce it, you need to use not one, but several parts of the tongue at once.

An otter in the tundra

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

Otter from an otter
Leggings in the tundra
Otter from a cedar kernel
0013 Wipe the face of the otter with a gaiter
Cannonballs in buckets
Otter in the tundra!

Margarita

Margarita collected daisies on the mountain,
Margarita lost daisies in the yard.

Carl from Clara

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

A Greek rode across a river

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

Chattering Magpies

Three Chattering Magpies chattered on a hill.

Ships tacked

Ships tacked, tacked, but not caught.

Beavers go

Beavers go to bora cheese.
Beavers are kind, beavers are cheerful.

Grass in the yard

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

Drawings

Larisa painted daffodils in watercolor.
Natasha painted dahlias in gouache.

Patter about purchases

Tell us about purchases,
About which purchases?
About purchases, about purchases,
About my purchases.

Pine

There grew behind the mountain, behind a hillock
a pine with suckers.

Children's funny tongue twisters

In this section you will find excellent material for playing learning. Learning together funny tongue twisters for children will create a positive attitude and attract the attention of even the most restless kid.

Parrot

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

Koschei

Skinny and weak Koschei
Carrying a box of vegetables.

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!

Carp

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

Forty forty

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

Turtle and tea

Turtle, not bored, sits for an hour with a cup of tea.

Glutton Zhora

Glutton Zhora ate one hundred pancakes and one hundred cutlets for lunch.
Zhora's stomach hurts. It's dangerous to be a glutton!

Toad, crane and yellow bug

Toad, crane and yellow bug
We went to the meadow to visit the hedgehog,
So that the dressmaker sewed in place
Letter Sh and it became quiet in the forest.

Patter with hissing sounds [g], [w], [h], [u]

Tongue twisters with hissing [g], [w], [h], [u] parents and teachers turn most often. These sounds are the most difficult for children.

Hooded Cuckoo

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

H tongue twister

Four turtles have four baby turtles.

In a hut

Rustling silks in a hut
A yellow dervish from Algeria
And, juggling knives,
Shtuk eats figs.

Four little imps

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

Sasha was walking along the highway

Sasha was walking along the highway and sucked dry food.

Red cat

Red couch potato

Patter with the letter Щ

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

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.

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