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Tongue Twisters

Tongue twisters are a great and fun way to practice and improve pronunciation and fluency of
English. They can also help to improve accents by using alliteration, which is the repetition of one
sound. They are not just for kids, but are also used by actors, politicians, and public speakers who
want to sound clear when speaking. Below, you will find some of the most popular English tongue
twisters. Say them as quickly as you can. If you can master them, you will be a much more
confident speaker, for sure!

Some Tongue Twisters Examples:

➔ The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
➔ I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.
➔ Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter
Piper picked?
➔ 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.
➔ She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells
shells on the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

Some useful resources:

● The sounds of English and the International Phonetic Alphabet

http://www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc-soundsipa.htm

● Useful English

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