Are you struggling to improve the pronunciation in the language you are currently learning?
Try it by saying tongue twisters in your target language.
Stai imparando l’italiano?
Ecco per te le più famose scioglilingua italiane!
Are you learning Italian? Here are some of the most popular tongue twisters in Italian!
Apelle figlio d’Apollo fece una palla di pelle di pollo, tutti i pesci vennero a galla per vedere la palla di pelle di pollo fatta da Apelle figlio d’Apollo.
Apelle, the son of Apollo, made a ball of chicken skin and all the fish came to the surface to see the ball made of chicken skin made by Apelle, the son of Apollo.
Trentatré Trentini entrarono a Trento, tutti e trentatré, trotterellando
Thirty three Trentonians came into Trento, all thirty three trotting.
O proviamo una „forse più semplice“
Let’s try an easier one:
Tre tigri contro tre tigri
Three tigers against three tigers.
Lernst du Deutsch?
Bitte schön! Hier sind einige Zungenbrecher mit denen du deine Sprachkenntinsse verbessern kannst.
Are you learning German? Let’s exercise your tongue with these tongue twisters!
Es klapperten die Klapperschlangen,
bis ihre Klappern schlapper klangen.
The rattlesnakes rattled
until their rattles sounded run-down.
Es sprach der Herr von Rubenstein,
mein Hund der ist nicht stubenrein.
So spoke Mr. von Rubenstein,
my dog, he’s not house-trained.
Und am Ende versuch mal u probieren dieses schöne Deutsche Wort:
And at the end try this nice German word:
Hottentottenpotentatentantenattentat
Hottentot potentate’s aunt’s assassination.
Estas aprendiendo español?
Eso es algo para ti:
Are you studying Spanish?
These are for you!
Ñoño Yáñez come ñame en las mañanas con el niño.
Dimwit Yáñez eats yam in the mornings with the boy.
Papá pon pan para Pepín, para Pepín pon pan papá.
Dad serves bread for Pepin, for Pepin Dad serves bread.
Si la sierva que te sirve, no te sirve como sierva, de qué sirve que te sirvas de una sierva que no sirve.
If the servant that serves you, does not serve you as a servant should, of what use is the service of a servant that doesn’t serve.
Chceš si zlepšit svoji Češtinu? Tady je výzva pro tebe!
Is Czech your target language? Challenge yourself with these:
Strč prst skrz krk.
Stick your finger through your throat.
Pštros s pštrosicí a pštrosáčaty šli do pštrosačárny.
A male ostrich with a female ostrich and baby ostriches went to the ostrich house.
Jestly jsi si ještě nezlomil jazyk, zkus tento jazykolam:
If your tongue is not yet broken, try this one:
Třistatřiatřicet stříbrných křepelek přeletělo přes třistatřiatřicet stříbrných střech.
Three hundred and thirty three silver quails flew over three hundred and thirty three silver roofs.
And at the end some in English:
How many boards
Could the Mongols hoard
If the Mongol hordes got bored?
Yally Bally had a jolly golliwog. Feeling folly, Yally Bally Bought his jolly golli’ a dollie made of holly! The golli’, feeling jolly, named the holly dollie, Polly. So Yally Bally’s jolly golli’s holly dollie Polly’s also jolly!
Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees’ cheese freeze.
That’s what made these three free fleas sneeze.
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