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Tongue twisters are a great way to practice and improve pronunciation and fluency. They can also help to improve accents by using alliteration, which is the repetition of one sound. They’re not just for kids, but are also used by actors, politicians, and public speakers who want to sound clear when speaking. Below, you will find some of the most popular English tongue twisters. Say them as quickly as you can. If you can master them, you will be a much more confident speaker.

  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. 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 ‘twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter
  3. 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
  4. She sells seashells by the seashore
  5. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
  6. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
  7. I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop
  8. Susie works in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines she sits, and where she sits she shines
  9. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?
  10. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
  11. I have got a date at a quarter to eight; I’ll see you at the gate, so don’t be late
  12. You know New York, you need New York, you know you need unique New York
  13. I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen
  14. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
  15. I thought I thought of thinking of thanking you
  16. I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch
  17. Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear
  18. Eddie edited it
  19. Willie’s really weary
  20. A big black bear sat on a big black rug
  21. Tom threw Tim three thumbtacks
  22. He threw three free throws
  23. Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely
  24. So, this is the sushi chef
  25. Four fine fresh fish for you
  26. Wayne went to wales to watch walruses
  27. Six sticky skeletons (x3)
  28. Which witch is which? (x3)
  29. Snap crackle pop (x3)
  30. Flash message (x3)
  31. Red Buick, blue Buick (x3)
  32. Red lorry, yellow lorry (x3)
  33. Thin sticks, thick bricks (x3)
  34. Stupid superstition (x3)
  35. Eleven benevolent elephants (x3)
  36. Two tried and true tridents (x3)
  37. Rolling red wagons (x3)
  38. Black back bat (x3)
  39. She sees cheese (x3)
  40. Truly rural (x3)
  41. Good blood, bad blood (x3)
  42. Pre-shrunk silk shirts (x3)
  43. Ed had edited it. (x3)
  44. We surely shall see the sun shine soon
  45. Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
  46. Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread
  47. I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit
  48. A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk
  49. Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better
  50. Of all the vids I’ve ever viewed, I’ve never viewed a vid as valued as Alex’s engVid vid

100 Tongue Twisters to Perfect Pronunciation in English

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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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) - The quick talker was quick to say that you can’t re-speak all tongue twisters, you can’t re-speak all tongue twisters, but having spoken quickly, he said quickly - that you will re-speak all tongue twisters, 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 all quick proverbs, 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 a mustache.

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

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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) - Warmaster with a captain, captain with a captain.

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

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106. (Т,к) - 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 for such and such, don't ask for such and such - 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) - Fofan'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 the 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 was stunted, the heron was dry, the heron was dead.

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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, and against the young man 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 children were born to them:
Yak with Tsypa - Shah,
Yak-Tsy-fight with Tsypa-dripa - Shah-Shahmoni,
Yak-Tsi-Drak-Tsi-Drak-Tsi-Droni
With Tsypa -Dripoy-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, bristles 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. (Sh, s) - Sasha walked along the highway, carried the dryer on a pole and sucked the 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 hood.

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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 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. (Sh,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 hornet:
does not buzz, it 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. (W) - 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.
Cuckoos fell silent on the pines,
Frogs crawled out of a puddle,
Poplars tilted their tops -
Hear old women chatting.

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157. (Sh,k,p) - Pashka's mutt bit Pavka on the leg, beats Pavka's mutt 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,
But I definitely won't release it.

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160. (Sch,g,c) - In a puddle, in the middle of a grove
Toads have their own living space.
Another tenant lives here -
Water beetle.

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161. (W, W, H) - The train rushes grinding: w, h, w, w, w, h, w, w

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162. (Sch,h) - Puppies' cheeks were cleaned with brushes.

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163. (Sch,h) - I brush my teeth with this brush,
I brush my shoes with this,
I brush my trousers with this,
These brushes are all needed.

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164. (Sch,t) - Wolves are looking for food.

Tongue twisters for children and adults, difficult to pronounce phrases

Tongue twister is a specially invented phrase with a difficult to pronounce selection of sounds, a quickly pronounced comic joke (S. I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova, Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language). Tongue twisters train diction, making the pronunciation correct and clear. Difficult-to-pronounce phrases involuntarily force you to pronounce phrases again and again: at first slowly and stumbling, then faster and almost without errors. Russian tongue twisters not only help to “hone” your language, but also introduce you to the richness of the Russian language and poetic images. The word game becomes an exciting process, makes it a fun pastime. Some tongue twisters have survived to this day from time immemorial, others were composed in the second half of the 20th century.

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Sasha walked along the highway,
Carried drying on a pole.
And sucked dry.

Grass in the yard,
Firewood on the grass.
Do not cut wood
On the grass of the yard.

Three hundred and thirty three ships
Tacked, tacked,
Tacked, tacked,
Tacked, tacked,
Yes, and they didn’t catch it,
Yes, and they didn’t catch it,
Yes, and they didn’t catch it.

Dust flies across the field from the clatter of hooves.

Four blacks
Dirty imp
Drawn in black
Ink drawing
Extremely clear.

Carl stole corals from Clara,
And Clara stole the clarinet from Karl.
If Carl had not stolen corals from Clara,
Then Clara would not steal the clarinet from Karl.

Greka rode across the river.
Sees a Greek in the Rak River.
Threw the hand of the Greek into the river.
Cancer for the hand of the Greek - tsap.

Petru Petru baked pies.

Six mice rustle in the reeds.

The harrow harrowed an unharrowed field.

They gave Glasha yogurt, and Glasha got porridge.

There is a vine on the cart, a goat by the cart.

Vlas is with us, Afanas is with you.

At Senya and Sanya in the nets of catfish with a mustache.

The weaver weaves fabric on Tanya's dress.

Wasp barefoot and without belt.

One Klim wedge pounded, pounded and knocked out.

Kondrat's jacket is too short.

Kirill bought a pitcher and a mug at the market.

Koval Kondrat forged steel, forged and reforged.

Polya went to weed parsley in the field.

The Buyan ram climbed into the weeds.

Hedgehogs and fir-trees splitting needles.

Four turtles have four baby turtles.

Do not look for goose whiskers - you will not find.

The little crow has missed.

The baker baked a loaf, a loaf, a bagel early in the morning.

Green-white-lipped cucumbers.

Cheer up, Savely, move the hay.

A badger carried a dry bough.

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A tongue twister is a genre of oral folk art. A tongue twister is a specially selected phrase with a difficult to pronounce selection of sounds, a joke or a quickly pronounced comic saying. Even in ancient times, tongue twisters appeared in Russia. They helped the children to comprehend their native language in a playful and entertaining way. Currently, speech therapists specifically compose tongue twisters for children containing a difficult-to-pronounce sequence of words and letters. Rapid pronunciation of such tongue twisters aloud eliminates most speech defects.

Tongue twisters are also relevant for adults. Tongue twisters are especially popular with announcers, speakers, artists, leaders and singers, because they need a clear pronunciation on duty. Tongue twisters help to train diction. Their reading develops the correct articulation and eliminates reservations.

Try to read the tongue twister aloud, while clearly pronouncing each sound, then begin to gradually increase the tempo. It should be noted that, first of all, it is worth paying attention to a clear pronunciation, and only then to the tempo of pronunciation. If even at your usual pace you cannot read the tongue twister correctly and without errors, try to understand its meaning and build a clear video sequence in your head. Then start reading the tongue twister slowly.

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