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Ready to try a few English tongue twisters to help you win a 300 euro gift card?
Check out these tongue twisters and practice saying them. When you're ready, grab a camera and record yourself saying a tongue twister for the OLS Video Contest. Read the rules here.
First, what is a tongue twister, anyway? I'm glad you asked!
A tongue twister is a phrase or sentence that is difficult to articulate, often due to the presence of a sequence of similar sounds. The main challenge of a tongue twister is saying it quickly and accurately without stumbling over the words and getting tongue-tied.
Why Are Tongue Twisters Useful?
Sometimes tongue twisters might not make sense and may be quite silly, but they are a great tool for improving one’s fluency and pronunciation skills.
Let's Give Some Tongue Twisters a Try.
1. Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
2. A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
3. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
4. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
5. She sells seashells by the seashore.
6. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?
Number 6 is my favorite! Which one is yours?
Iya, Community Manager - English