tongue twisters

language learning techniques

* Tongue twisters - are you good with it? *

@smileyhema (4463)

United States

June 3, 2019 6:34pm CST

I was just browsing some stuffs and came across a few tongue twisters. My brother and I used to play this as a game during our childhood . No wonder it also improves us with the language to speak fluently and also helps in good pronunciation of the words. Few practices comes as a funny exercise but has great benefits for us to learn the language correctly. How many twisters are you familiar till now. Just share a few of them if you'd like to! =) Thanks .. Image courtesy : Google

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@AKRao24 (27422)

• India

4 Jun 19

I remember one tongue twister about Betty and butter.....But today I find that there are many variants to the original one! The Original one what i know is given in the picture!

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@AKRao24 (27422)

• India

4 Jun 19

@smileyhema , Yes, there are few more such as this !

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@smileyhema (4463)

• United States

4 Jun 19

@AKRao24 - oh I see...

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@smileyhema (4463)

• United States

4 Jun 19

Yeah I've heard of its variant. It goes like this - " Betty bought some butter, but the butter was so bitter, Betty bought some better butter, to make the bitter butter better ..."

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@Nickzter1331 (4229)

• Philippines

4 Jun 19

not that good in tongue twister...

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@smileyhema (4463)

• United States

4 Jun 19

Yeah even I stink at that most of the time ..

@smileyhema (4463)

• United States

4 Jun 19

@Nickzter1331 mine is - "betty and butter.." one

@Nickzter1331 (4229)

• Philippines

4 Jun 19

@smileyhema maybe the only tongue twister that i can do is the Peter Piper pick a ....

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@LadyDuck (480670)

• Italy

4 Jun 19

There are many: I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch We surely shall see the sun shine soon

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@smileyhema (4463)

• United States

4 Jun 19

Cool ...I haven't heard of these ...

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@rakski (145269)

• Philippines

4 Jun 19

There are some I can say very fast but there are some that just won't do

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@smileyhema (4463)

• United States

4 Jun 19

That's exactly with me too. I can say or may be attempt with two or three twisters

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@rakski (145269)

• Philippines

4 Jun 19

@smileyhema yes, same here

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@Sojourn (13835)

• India

4 Jun 19

I am aware of the one given in the picture by you.And some more in my native tongue.

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@smileyhema (4463)

• United States

5 Jun 19

That's cool =)

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@didinedhia (8482)

• Algeria

4 Jun 19

i already stutter!!!

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@smileyhema (4463)

• United States

4 Jun 19

Oh sorry..I get that

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@didinedhia (8482)

• Algeria

4 Jun 19

@smileyhema and it sucks

@Zelmarq (12607)

• Cebu City, Philippines

4 Jun 19

Had it in highschool and its fun; it was also useful when I reached college.

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@smileyhema (4463)

• United States

4 Jun 19

Oh .. that's good. Did you have it in your syllabus.. that's great then..

@allknowing (150900)

• India

8 Jun 19

I have quite a few that I challenge others with. 'Bad Blood' is one of othem

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@smileyhema (4463)

• United States

9 Jun 19

Oh okay. I haven't heard of them, yet :)

@DianneN (247157)

• United States

26 Jul 19

There are several I know and used with my students. I always burst out laughing saying them.

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@smileyhema (4463)

• United States

26 Jul 19

Oh, wow! That's nice! So, did you teach them English? What was the course/subject? Nice to know. :-)

Yeah! That makes us laugh easily.

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@smileyhema (4463)

• United States

26 Jul 19

@DianneN Oh, wow! That's a great bunch of things to teach and enjoy. :-)

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@DianneN (247157)

• United States

26 Jul 19

@smileyhema I taught first grade and later on special education. We did it for language arts and some fun.

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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)

• Perth, Australia

24 Jun 19

@smileyhema I'm not the best at them lol but I love trying!

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@smileyhema (4463)

• United States

24 Jun 19

Haha... Okay! So I'm :)

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@Teekaaa (11640)

• India

4 Jun 19

I know few tongue twisters which the fellow mylotters have already mentioned. So I was surfing through the net for some new tongue twister which I'm not aware of and found this one ..." Red Lorry; Yellow Lorry;Red Lorry; Yellow Lorry;Red Lorry; Yellow Lorry;Red Lorry; Yellow Lorry;..." Really a tongue twisting tongue twister, know??

Other than these I know few tongue twisters in my language.

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@smileyhema (4463)

• United States

5 Jun 19

Yeah "Red Lorry" one was famous in my school days. =)

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@weevee18 (2065)

• Philippines

4 Jun 19

I’m never good at tongue twisters. Peter piper was the most popuar back in grade school.

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@smileyhema (4463)

• United States

4 Jun 19

Haha .. yeah I understand.. I've heard that as well..

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@ScotMac (1335)

• Edinburgh, Scotland

15 Jun 19

How about this one: 'She sells sea shells on the sea shore'. Try saying that fast!

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@smileyhema (4463)

• United States

15 Jun 19

Haha .. that's my favorite :) I think I can manage saying that

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