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Tongue Twister Collection
Tongue Twister Collection
We’ve created a list of tricky tongue twisters, long and short, that will
help you practice many different sounds in English, and have fun while
doing it!
* Don’t try to say it fast. Make it accurate and clear. Then, speed up
each time you repeat it, and only when you feel confident.
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v Vince vowed vengeance very vehemently.
ɾ (flap T) 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.
Focus: S - Z - SH - CH
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ʃ - tʃ A cheap ship trip
Focus: TH - S - V
Focus: M - N - L
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Focus: S clusters
p - sp Specific pacific
Strategy tragedy
Focus: W - L - R
ɹ-w Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared
wrongly in a rural brewery.
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If you must cross a course cross cow across a
crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow
across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
Focus: Vowels
ɔɪ - oʊ Toy boat
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A cheap ship trip
i-u You know New York, you need New York, you know
you need unique New York.
Read the following scene from the animated TV show Pinky & The Brain.
The scene is filled with tongue twisters and is a good and fun way to
practice challenging sequences of sounds in English. Read it once and
then read it again out loud. Focus on the parts that are more
challenging to you and say them at least five times.
Note: You can adjust the speed of the video to slow it down as you
practice 😉
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FACTORY OWNER:
I am honored by your visit, let me show you our assembly line. First,
sheets of sheer synthetic sheepskin are slit into several Kicky Sack shoe
shapes and shapely shoe sizes by six sitting sheet slitters.
BRAIN:
I only see five sitting sheet slitters.
OWNER:
The sixth sitting sheet slitter's sick. His son Sammy's subbing till the sick
sixth sitting sheet slitter's back, sitting pretty.
PINKY:
You're not the sheet slitter?
PINKY:
Well, you keep on slitting sheets until the sheet slitter comes. ha ha ha!
OWNER:
The shoe shaper then shapes the slit synthetic sheepskin sheets and
shoots out shoes through the chute. This is Mr. Plunket, the new khaki
sock plucker. I had to fire our previous sock plucker, he had a bit of an
attitude.
BRAIN:
So, you sacked the cocky khaki Kicky Sack sock plucker?
OWNER:
The second cocky khaki Kicky Sack sock plucker I sacked, since the sixth
sitting sheet slitter got sick!
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