Pronunciation: Tongue Twisters

Classic tongue twisters to train clear pronunciation and rhythm. Each one is read twice, slowly enough to follow.

How to practise

1. Say each one slowly three times.
2. Say it at normal speed three times.
3. Try it once as fast as you can.

The tongue twisters

1. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.
2. A noisy noise annoys an oyster.
3. Eleven elephants eagerly eat Easter eggs.
4. Three free throws.
5. She sells seashells by the seashore.
6. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he chew?
7. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
8. He happily held his hat in his hand.
9. I have got a date at a quarter to eight. I’ll see you at the gate so don’t be late.
10. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish.
11. Dashing Danny danced at dawn.
12. I slit the sheet. The sheet I slit. And on the slitted sheet I sit.
13. Mighty Max made a map of the maze in the meadow.
14. Nora never knits near noisy neighbors.
15. Red lorry yellow lorry.
16. Walter’s wagon wheel went westward with a wobbly whirl.
17. I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen.
18. He threw three free throws.
19. Thin sticks thick bricks.
20. Tom threw Tim three thumbtacks.
21. You know New York. You need New York. You know you need unique New York.
22. Susie works in the shoe shine shop. Where she shines she sits and where she sits she shines.
23. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?
24. Betty Butter bought some butter but she said the butter’s bitter. If I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter will make my batter better. So ’twas better Betty Butter bought a bit of better butter.
25. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? He would chuck, he would, as much as he could and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood. Twenty-five. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? He would chuck, he would, as much as he could and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
26. Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers. A pack of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers, where’s the pack of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
27. If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I’m perfectly practiced and practically perfect.
28. If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I’m perfectly practiced and practically perfect. Now it’s your turn to read the all tongue twisters.