Tongue Twisters

[omfgblondie]

Sex laxar i en laxask

[fotopoulosalex6792]

Which wrist watch is a Swiss wrist watch?

[TheAntlerbaby]

Unique New York, New York's unique.

[funnyking14]

IRISH WRISTWATCH

[MYNameIsKy13]

Irish Wrist Watch

[Tarragonable]

Tom, where Rich had had 'had', had had 'had had'. 'Had had' had had Harry's approval.

Not really a tongue twister, but still damn funny!

[TheDRUNKHOOLIGAN]

betty bought a bit of butter. but the bit of butter betty bought was bitter. so betty bought another bit of butter to maker the bitter bit of butter better.

[sbcflirter]

One-one was a race horse, two-two was one too. One-one won one race and two-two won one too.

[sbcflirter]

She sells sea shells by the sea shore and the shells she sells are sea shore shells I'm sure.

[moviemoviemadness]

say bedspread a bunch of times and theres this one. i saw susie sitting in the show shine shop wear she sits she shines and where she shines she sits

[DarkAtom000]

toy boat toy boat toy bout aghhhh

[stude444]

Thug Aim, hard to say outloud.

[Charliemissen]

"Far? Får får får?" "Nej, får får ikke får, får får lam. Men kun få får får så få lam som fars få får får når fars få får får lam". (Meaning: "Dad? Does sheep get sheep?" "No, sheep don't get sheep, sheep get lambs. Bot only a few sheep get as few lambs as dad's few sheep get when dad's few sheep gets lamb")

Danish tongue twister. Actually not that hard to say, it's harder to write and read. The word sheep = får and the word get = får and you can hear the difference but only read it in context.

[KemestA7X]

Theres a...tongue twiater...in his pants?

[HJKFantasie]

Irish wristwatch

Try saying that three times fast

[sweetlikedaim]

Wow. this is an INTENSE vlog.

[nemesis962074]

Tres tristres tigres tragaban trigo en un triste trigal con tres tristes trastos.

[Lalaithion5355]

I am the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker to ever pluck a mother pheasant.

[IvarHuisman]

=( the dutch one was a little boring. I know a better one: Als een potvis in een pispot pist, heb je een pispot vol met potvissenpis.

[FlargTheKitty]

I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.

Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.

When I say it, Susie always ends up sh***ing where she shines.

[ashtonmolly]

I am not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son.

I am only plucking pheasants 'till the pheasant plucker comes.

[TheAwesomeBunny1]

Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.

[sachokon]

here's a german one: Fischers Fritze fischt frische Fische, frische Fische fischt Fischers Fritze :D or Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleit und Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut

[gerardwhytelads]

Try and say 'Unique New york' over and over again.

[alm24601]

The tutor who tooted the flute,

Tried to tutor two tutors to toot

Said the two to the tutor is to tougher to toot or to tutor two tutors to toot?

[snowflaked23]

One smart fellow, he felt smart. Two smart fellows, they felt smart. Three smart fellows, they felt smart - and they all felt smart together.

Just typing that I got all mixed up and almost put 'smelt fart' which is what you (or, I at least) slip into.

[imissrose123]

Ever heard 'Mother Pheasant Plucker' and the poem 'English Pronunciation Test'? Google them, especially the last one!

[Chunsii]

Im a sock cutter and I cut socks.

[qwartkts]

Short and sweet tongue twister: Mr. Smith's Ship Sinks

[asyouwish141]

She stood on a balcony of Mrs. Smith's Fish Sauce Shop, amicably mimicing him hiccupping, and, inexplicably, let him in.

[Shellewell]

omg! I just realised that the girl who does the french tongue twister is the girl that Michael Aranda stayed with when he was stuck in france!

[jwrcamnia]

Irish wristwatch 

[dakoffran]

I'm a fig plucker, I pluck figs, I'm the best fig plucker, to ever pluck a fig!

[tibzy4eva786]

@dakoffran OMD this made me LOL!

[kristinemarcotte]

Petit Pot de beaurre de peanut Kraft, quand te dé-petit pot de beurre de peanut krafteriseras-tu?

Je me dé-petit pot de beurre de peanut krafteriserais lorsque tout les petit pots de beurre de peanut Kraft seront dé-petit pot de beurre de peanut krafterisé.

That's my favourite, in French.

[WhatIfItWasPurple]

I learned it as "I sit upon the slitted sheet, upon the slitted sheet I sit."

[Aaolvn]

My favorite:

You've no need to light a night-light

On a light night like tonight,

For a night-light's light's a slight light,

And tonight's a night that's light.

When a night's light, like tonight's light,

It is really not quite right

To light night-lights with their slight lights

On a light night like tonight.

[ariearenonagela]

My favorite one from my freshman German class.

Kleine Kinder können keine Kirschkerne knacken

It means small kids cannot crack cherry pits. :)

[NerdyArtsGeek]

See, the one I learned was

I am not the pheasant plucker.

I'm the pheasant plucker's son

I am only plucking pheasants

'Til the pheasant plucker's come.

I am the best mother pheasant plucker

To have ever plucked a mother pheasant.

[SubbyP]

Napoleon's imperial aluminum linoleum.

[coolfry]

red leather yellow leather. toy boats.

[theetheerocks]

try saying "toy boat" 10 times fast

[HannahBonanaB]

I am the mother pheasant plucker.

I pluck mother pheasants.

You are not the pheasant plucker.

You are the mother pheasant plucker's child,

And you will be plucking mother pheasants until the mother pheasant plucking day is done.

[HungryLionCAT]

@HannahBonanaB I know a slight variation:

I am a mother pheasant plucker.

I pluck mother pheasants.

I am the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker to have ever plucked a mother pheasant pleasantly.

[silentdreamer597]

Linguistics major is in love.

[CakeBeneathTheIcing]

Si Pancho plancha con cuatro planchas con cuantas planchas Pancho plancha?

[Tabbiecat55]

Learnt (learned? Language is hard) this from Stephen Fry's "Moab is my Washpot: Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie. Fun to say and imagine! I was obsessed with saying this when I first learned (I'm going with that one. It looks past tense-ish) to say it, and unfortunately had a lot of people just asking me; "what's a menagerie?". Nevertheless, my Mum, my brother and one of my sisters can now say it too! My other sister's working on it, but she's only four

[Marcusvlogs]

Swedish: sju sjuka sjömän sköttes av sju sköna sjuksystrar

[649321a]

Japanese partial tongue twister (BTW - I am not Japanese, nor have I ever lived in Japan):

庭には二羽鶏がいます。

Romaji (with added spaces): Niwa ni ha (<-- said as "wa") niwa niwatori ga imasu.

English meaning: There are two chickens in the garden!

庭 - niwa - garden

には - ni wa - particles, give purpose to a word (in this case, defines the garden as a place of action)

二羽 - niwa - counter for two birds

鶏 - niwatori - chicken (literally "garden bird")

[stude444]

@649321a You rock awesome.

[BustinJieber224]

Irish Wristwatch.

[LifeInMintCondition6]

I'm studying to be a speech pathologist, and I really appreciate that you acknowledge how much work goes into producing words. I've also been ignorant in the fact that people--other than speech pathologists--know what stops, fricatives, and plosives even are. To the person before me: if all you did was tongue twisters, your therapist missed a lot of his/her training, and I'm sorry for that. DFTBA!

[MasterGrammarian]

When I was little, I had to go to speech therapy, which mostly involved saying a ton of tongue twisters. I could never get through them without messing up and ended up quitting. I still have a speech impediment. And can't say tongue twisters.

[MusicChick015]

unique new york, new yorks unique, you know you need unique new york (This is a vocal warm up so i'm not sure if it's as difficult without singing the tune with it)

[Monicah177]

They make us say this before we have to give a speech. Better not screw it up:

I pluck figs

I'm a fig plucker's son

And I'll pluck figs

'Til the fig plucking's done.

[ronnieron555]

@Monicah177 somehow i said: Im a fuck plicker. lmao

[coralrose798]

Aluminum Linoleum :)

[SpaceOdyssey56]

@Gardianluna

My tongue got trapped at "de trap"!

[NinjaWieldingLimes]

Irish wristwatch.

[WhatIfItWasPurple]

@NinjaWieldingLimes I made myself get really good at that one.

[sonicriders1000]

Say toy boat 5 times fast.

[Gardianluna]

De kat krabt de krullen van de trap & Die schijthond uit Scheveningen scheet op het Scheveningse schijtveld. Nearly imposible for people who speak English as their first language.

[RaMiMaTe]

how much chuck would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood ?

[ThatWeirdo04]

My favorite tongue twister is

You know New York

You need New York

You know you need unique New York

[NYLeeNJ]

On 0:34 to 0:36 Look at his mouth theres spit coming out of his mouth ewww

[xmcr101x]

I wish to wash my Irish wrist watch B)

[LetUsFloatLikeAngels]

I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant pluckers son, and I'll be plucking pheasants 'till pheasant plucker comes.

:)

[NarCoocoobrainTeam]

Once, I sat on slitted sh*t... lol

[civnov]

Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks

[Lyorias]

I'm quite fond of "pheasant plucker". He's a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker, we're all pheasant pluckers. ;)

[listentotheraenfall]

I made up a toung twister- by accident:

She sings sad shower songs so surely.

[8247453]

filipino tongue twisters: 1. minimikaniko ni moniko ang makina ng minika ni monika

2. ang relo ni leroy ay rolex

3. palakang kabkab, kumakalabukab, kaka-kalabukab pa lamang, kumakalabukab nanaman

4. pitumput pitong puting tupa

im just sharing :)

[NarCoocoobrainTeam]

@8247453

lol what do they mean in English

[LennyMakeUp]

I wish I could talk as fast as you!!!!

[indiffrentwithall]

funny this guy is smart

[SleepingDragon7]

That Dutch girl is cute :)

[IAmTheVdc]

Simplest ever tongue twister

Irish Wristwatch

Say it quickly. You cant get it right :D

[lovefromeponine]

@IAmTheVdc wow I can't even do it once in a row!

[MissiCupcake553]

@SuperDblain

I can say that!

Maybe it's the fact that I'm British and I've got an accent…

[MissiCupcake553]

Unique New York New York Unique.

Say it five times fast.

:)

[kdfljgfldghldfgshdfl]

What, no Japanese tongue twisters?



[Physicx17]

Norwegian :D

[ahaetulla]

So you're saying... we enjoy... fun? Amazing.

[zxDJGamingxz]

How much dup could a dupstep step if a dupstep could step dup

[FilTheEvilGoblin]

Umm... Hank, you still went to 4:02 before starting the montage! Aaahhh why did this have to be last year? You should be punished.

[TheHatOfDestiny]

see now, I used to be a singer so we did so much work on diction that I am now really good at tongue twisters.

[SuperDblain]

lol two words... irish wristwatch.

[Doombuggy5]

Mosus supposes his toeses are roses but Mosus supposes eroniously Mosus knowses his toeses arn't roses as Mosus supposes his toeses to be

[runescapeglicthes]

@jkerchek wtf i can understand her.

[triplethreatstar13]

It took me a month to conquer this one:

A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits and a biscuit mixer.

[jkerchek]

Just want to let you know the cantonese tongue twister is fake.

although i am a cantonese speaker, i don't know what she's saying.

you should remove her from your video

[SuperCoolFunnyVideos]

This is made of awesome. Seeing tongue twisters in other languages was so fascinating. I stumbled upon a simple short one just the other day... "Mirror neurons." Enjoy!

[4LiveLifeWithLove4]

Try saying this:

The big black bug bit the big black bear and the big black bear bled blood.

Or, as I like to say,

The big black blug bit the big back blear on the big black blear's big butt.

Yeah, either one. :)

[emobunnyrevolution]

unique new york... say it fast its hard



[emobunnyrevolution]

unique new york... sauy it fast its hard

[PSspecialist]

LOL the Norwegian one was like typing random letters at Google translation and asking it to read them!

[MissMeggie2804]

My favor

[Ycing]

im from iceland and i can tell you what she said was not difficult at all

[glacierscene]

4x fast

Blue bug's blood.

[BabblingBrookeh]

Dude i can't even say "blue boat" without somehow making it "poelupo"... idk how it gets to that..

[frootbat31]

I think its wrong to assume that we're the only species that does tongue twisters, because we can't understand hem. Dolphins, for instance, may as likely have word games- in their language. We can't know because we don't understand them. What are your thoughts?

[DeathHamsterDude]

An easier one would be: Bhí bean ag Joe Agus bhí banjo ag Joe Agus bhí banjo ag bhean Joe Ach b'fhearr go deo Joe ar an mbanjo Ná bean Joe ar an mbanjo go deo. Phonetically for you guys: Vee ban egg Joe, Ahg-us vee banjo egg Joe Ahg-us vee banjo egg van Joe Ach var guh joe, Joe air on manjoe Nah ban Joe air on manjoe go Joe Which translates roughly to: Joe had a wife And Joe had a banjo And Joe's wife had a banjo Joe was always better on the banjo Than Joe's wife ever was.

[DeathHamsterDude]

Thabhairfainn gal don té a thabharfadh gal dom is gal aige is gan gal agam; ach an té ná tabharfadh gal dom is gal aige is gan gal agam, ní tabharfainn gal dó is gal agam is gan gal aige.

An bhfacha tú an bacach, nó an bhfacha tú a mhac? Ní fhaca mé an bacach is ní fhacha mé a mhac, ach dá bhfeicfinnse an bacach nó dá bhfeicfinnse a mhac, ní bhacfainn leis an bacach is ní bhacfainn lena mhac!

Those were in Irish. Very hard, even for tongue twisters, because h's do crazy things to our language!

[aimeelikescheese]

I know that last tongue-twister a bit differently: "Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said this butter's bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter, but it made her batter worse."

One I would always mess up but am so much better at now is: "A cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup." It's harder than it seems.

[ImogensImagination18]

I know a different one about Betty buying butter, and I'm quite proud I can say it :D

[nicoleification]

Organism is not equal to orgasm. Realized that the hard way (as many others have) the hard way.

[kyrarene62442]

Irish Wrist Watch (5 times fast)

[TheWannabeaner]

I've learned a few tongue twisters over the years. I think one of the most memorable for me are "rubber baby buggy bumpers" and, of course, "All I want is a proper cup of coffee in a proper copper coffee pot. I may be off my dot, but if I just want a proper cup of coffee in a proper copper coffee pot. Tin coffee pots and iron coffee pots are of no use to me. If I cannot have a proper cup of coffee in a proper copper coffee pot, I'll have a cup of tea."

[Binibiene]

Junge jodelnde Jodler-Jungen jodeln jaulende Jodel-Jauchzer, jaulende Jodel-Jauchzer jodeln Junge jodelnde Jodler-Jungen :)

that's German in case you didn't know!

[mrb400]

toy boat

[BrittleTalks]

I've been working on some of these! 

[FlobotsFan101]

I slit the sheet and the sheet slit me. The sheet that was slit was slit by me.

[TheManorexic]

In drama we have to do tongue twisters as vocal warmups. My favourites are one about a "mother pheasant plucker", because seeing kids mess up pseudophones in front of a teacher and panic about it is funny. The other one is "She stood on the balcony, inexplicably mimicking him hiccuping, amicably welcoming him in *two stomps*"

[jomiliakas]

Lithuanian ones are really awesome :)

[PunkRockPat]

Well at least you're not a dork.

[snakerecon9]

peter picked a pickle peper

[lkergirenkljeshglhsu]

I am a mother pheasant plucker. I pluck mother pheasants. I am the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker to ever pluck a mother pheasant.

[lolweirdness]

sounds like a freudaphone :D get it.. like..a. Freudian slip

[9emopoptarts]

you know you need unique newyork you know you need it you not

two timid toes tried to trot to terry town

[overtheranbow22]

You are now aware you can't say; Irish wristwatch

[MinecraftNerds9001]

longer that 4 minutes

[envelopeskrcc]

buttercup run shirt!!!!

[ReKrisB]

I love vids like this...

I always sit here and think

I'm LEARNING!~

[LilyTheAnnoyance]

I shit the sheet the sheet I shit and on the shitted sheet I shit.

Dang it. Tongue twisters always get me in trouble. :(

[thatone6]

I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop. Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.

If your keen on stunning kites and cunning stunts, buy a cunning stunning stunt kites.

[shneakay18]

My theatre teacher makes us say the Betty butter one normally, in a brooklyn accent, and in a haughty british accent :P

[SUPERHULK7]

The Norwegian sounded like fuck da fuck da fuck 

[Wafflepal]

Unique New York.

Torpedo Potato!!!

[bluidemenace1]

Unique New York.

The big black bug bit the big black bear and the big black bear bled blue black blood.

[applejuicejadedear]

I'm a pheasant plucker. I pluck mother pheasants. I'm the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker that ever plucked a mother pheasant.

[97nachotv]

@applejuicejadedear MOTHER FUCKER!!!!

[DizzyLiz11]

@applejuicejadedear We did that one in drama club and our teacher messed it up and told us to not tell our parents. Now that I look back on it, it didn't surprise me that he messed it up because he would say a word like that if we students were not around.

[tinabeaner004]

You are my favorite person.

[funsizedclaire]

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

[dyslexicxheart]

"one smart fella, he felt smart; two smart fellas, they both felt smart; three smart fellas, they all felt smart" is really hard. also to say "toy boat" consecutively a bunch of times, properly, is harder than you'd think.

[bottledmystery]

"I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's son; I'm only plucking pheasants 'till the pheasant plucker comes."

Similar to the upvoted fig plucker one, but with more opportunities for awkward slips! :D

[BardOfShwa]

Does anyone know if there are tongue twisters in Klingon? Or Elvish?

[GONEmypurpleflapjack]

@BardOfShwa You, Ma'm or SIr, Remembered to be awesome. I know one in Gaelic It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht.

[civnov]

the skunk thunk his head on a stump. the stump thunk that the skunk stunk.

I know its short but i forgot the rest

[SonatinaVirtuoso]

Quick as you like:

I am a mother pheasant plucker. I pluck mother pheasants. I am the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker to ever pluck a mother pheasant.

[nicolefreckles]

Unique New York (three times fast)

[TARDIS43]

That's my favourite tongue twister too (:

[marouchaxlx]

i got one for you. it's dutch

knappe kappers kappen knap, maar de nicht van de knappe kapper kapt knapper dan de knappe kapper kappen kan.

[aystallion12]

5x fast: toy boat

[bizzlowthxx]

he's a hot nerd

[OnlyXInXWonderland]

Toy boat 3 times.

[I4gotmyMANTRA]

I'm going to interrupt the ongoing stream of awesome tongue twisters to say that Hank looks especially adorable in the video. Ok, I'm done, on with it....

[SmilingMiranda]

irish wristwatch

[charliebham21]

Good blood, bad blood, Good blood, bad blood, Good blood, bad blood,

[Ps3playlab]

here is a french one: si six scies scient cypres, sixcents scies scient sixcent cypres.

Or: si ton tonton tond ton tonton, tont tontont serra tondu. Yes, they mean something

if six saws saw six ?, then six hundred saws saw six hundred ?s.

And if your uncle shaves your (other) uncle, then your uncle will be shaved.

[bubblebathing]

Red leather yellow feather

[samsteelie]

newyork unique unique newyork ;)

[hellman1997]

smarty pants...

[firefliesfindlife]

@hellman1997 Intellectual Badass.

[hellman1997]

@firefliesfindlife fine you tell me if you could understand anything he said

[firefliesfindlife]

@hellman1997 I can understand everything he said, in fact.

[dolphin64575]

'Rubber baby buggy bumpers' quickly becomes 'rubby bubby bubububu'

[madeleinelily0]

Irish Wristwatch. Irish wristwatch. Irish writwatch. Iwish swistwatf.

[dolphin64575]

@madeleinelily0 irish rishtaff

[MadeofAwesome4ever]

I kind of like tongue twisters that tell funny and/or nonsensical stories. like the last "Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter" one.

[aspenchik1044]

psuedophones would means its fake due to the fact that "psuedo" means fake in latin and greek. Your made up work slightly makes sense, but the actual detail of the word does not match your description. By The Way, I'm 16, and I know this!

[3HalvesOfOneIdiot]

@aspenchik1044 Way to be a nerdfighter, I was just thinking the same thing. But I'm 19.

[Dracosgirl547]

Try to say "Brer Bear" 5 times fast.

[MissSAS123]

I love this tongue twister:

I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son

I'll keep on plucking pheasants 'till the pheasant plucking's done

[birthdaygirl1126]

TOY BOAT!!! try ssaying that five times fast!!! it ends up coming out as toi boit :)

[Monpanacheable]

This is a very late response but the "pseudophones" you're talking about are often called minimal pairs in the world of linguistics. A minimal pair is two words which are exactly the same except for 1 feature (ex. "sheet" and "seat" are minimal pairs, as are "sheet" and "shit") From your friendly neighbourhood lingual nerdfighters :)

[endeara]

To sit in solemn silence on a dull dark dock

In a pestilential prison with a lifelong lock

Awaiting the sensation of a short sharp shock

From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block.

we had to recite that quickly 5 times over for one of my college theatre classes.

[marintaylor1]

that was one of our warm-ups in my high school chorus class: "i slit the sheet, the sheet i slit, upon the slitted sheet i sit." why my teacher decided that was a good thing to have 25 14-17 year olds say is something i still don't know to this day.