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TONGUE TWISTER COLLECTION

Tongue twisters are phrases and sentences that are difficult to
pronounce accurately. They’re a great way to practice sounds and
sound combinations and improve your fluency.

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!

⚡ How to practice tongue twisters

1. Say the sentence once, and identify the most challenging parts for
you.
2. Repeat the challenging part several times, and then say the
sentence (if you have a few challenging parts do the same for
each part).
3. Repeat each tongue twister at least five times.

* 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.

Let’s do this thing!

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 v Vince vowed vengeance very vehemently.

Seventy seven benevolent elephants

b-v Betty loves the velvet vest best.

d - ɾ (flap T) Eddie edited it.

s-ð-ɾ Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather

better.

b-m Bad money, mad bunny

b-z Busy buzzing bumblebees

h A happy hippo hopped and hiccupped.

Harriet has done her homework at home by herself.

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.

Aspirated P Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Focus: S - Z - SH - CH

s-ʃ Selfish shellfish

Santa’s short suit shrunk.

So this is the sushi chef.

She sells seashells by the seashore.

We surely shall see the sun shine soon.

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 ʃ - tʃ A cheap ship trip

s - ʃ - tʃ She sees cheese.

z - ʃ - tʃ If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?

Focus: TH - S - V

ð Red leather, yellow leather, lavender leather

θ (voiceless TH) Thin sticks, thick bricks

Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this

month.

θ-s I can think of six thin things.

Focus: M - N - L

m Mommy made me mash my M&M's.

m-n-l Aluminum, linoleum

n-l Sheena leads, Sheila needs

No need to light a night-light on a light night like

tonight.

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Focus: S clusters

p - sp Specific pacific

s - stɹ Strange strategic statistics

Strategy tragedy

Focus: W - L - R

ɹ (the R) Roger ran rings around the Roman ruins.

l Linda-Lou Lambert loves lemon lollipop lip gloss.

ɹ-l-w Real rare whale

Rolling red wagons

A loyal warrior will rarely worry why we rule.

ɹ-w Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared
wrongly in a rural brewery.

Which wrist watches are swiss wrist watches?

ɹ-l Truly rural

Road loader, load roller

Black background, brown background

How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

ɹ-l-ɾ Literally literary literature

ɹ before and Daddy draws doors.

after vowels
Pirate’s private property

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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.

If practice makes perfect and perfect needs

practice, I’m perfectly practiced and practically
perfect.

Focus: R & L clusters

kɹ Crisp crusts crackle crunchily.

gɹ The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek

grapes.

b - br - dr Baked beans bring bad dreams.

θ - θɹ The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled

the throne throughout Thursday.

θɹ - fɹ Three free throws

b - bl Good blood, bad blood

Billybob blabbered boldly.

Focus: Vowels

ɔɪ - oʊ Toy boat

ɪ-i Hiccup teacup!

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 A cheap ship trip

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick

I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted

sheet I sit.

æ-ɛ Flash message

Friendly Frank flips fine flapjacks.

Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager

managing an imaginary menagerie.

ɪ-ə A synonym for cinnamon is a cinnamon synonym.

ɪ-ʊ-ɑ If two witches would watch two watches, which

witch would watch which watch?

i-u You know New York, you need New York, you know
you need unique New York.

Part 2: Pinky & The Brain (4:08-4:48)

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?

SHEET SLITTER’S SON:

No, I'm the sheet slitter's son.

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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