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Tongue twisters are a great tool for practicing pronunciation and practicing English sounds. Unfortunately, many adults often forget about this, thinking that such exercises are only suitable for children. And in vain. Few experienced users can boast of good pronunciation. We decided to make for you a selection of tongue twisters broken down by levels of language proficiency . We hope this will serve as a great motivation for you!

English tongue twisters for children. Level A2 – elementary

These phrases can be repeated by both children and adults. Such sentences are also called 'tongue twister phrases'. It is useful to repeat them both aloud and to yourself.

Table 1. Tongue twisters in English for children.

Patter Translation

Eleven owls licked eleven little liquor ice lollipops.

11 owls licked 11 rice liquor candies.

Not these things here, but those things there.

Not these things here, but those things there.

Red lorry, yellow lorry.

Red truck, yellow truck.

The big bug bit the little beetle, but the little beetle bit the big bug back.

The big beetle bit the little beetle, but the little beetle bit the big beetle in return.

Zebras zig and zebras zag.

Zebras zigzag.

A tricky frisky snake with sixty super scaly stripes.

Cunning playful snake with 60 scaly stripes.

She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

She sells seashells by the seashore.

If two witches were watching two watches which witch would watch which watch?

If two witches looked at two clocks, which witch would look at which clock?

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

How many trees would a groundhog gnaw through if it could gnaw through a tree?

English tongue twisters level B1 - B2 / pre-intermediate-intermediate

These rhymes are already for more advanced users - older children and, of course, adults. Pay attention to the humorous context of these tongue twisters.

Table 2. Tongue twisters in English for older children and adults.

Patter Translation

A tutor who tooted the flute
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot
Said the two to the tutor
'Is it tougher to toot
Or to tutor two tooters to toot?'

The teacher who blew the flute
Tried to teach two teachers how to bleed.
Both said to the teacher
, "Is it harder to blow
or teach others to blow?"

A certain young fellow named Beebe
Wished to marry a lady named Phoebe
"But," he said. "I must see
What the minister's fee be
Before Phoebe be Phoebe Beebe"

A certain young man named Beebe
Wanted to marry a young girl named Phoebe
"But," he said, "I must see
what the ministerial fee will be
Before Phoebe becomes Phoebe Beebe."

I thought a thought.
But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought.
If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought so much.

I thought thought.
But the thought I came up with was not the thought I thought I came up with.
If the thought I thought I came up with was the thought I came up with, I wouldn't think so much.

If one doctor doctors another doctor
Does the doctor who doctors the doctor
Doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors?
Or does the doctor doctor the way
The doctor who doctors doctors?

If one doctor treats another doctor,
Does the doctor who treats the doctor treat the doctor
the way he treats doctors?
Or does a doctor treat a doctor
like a doctor who treats doctors?

I cannot bear to see a bear
Bear down upon a hare.
When bare of hair he strips the hare,
Right there I cry, 'Forbear!'

I can't bear to see a bear
chasing a hare.
When he is within a hair's breadth of a hare,
I immediately shout: "Beware!"

If Freaky Fred Found Fifty Feet of Fruit
And Fed Forty Feet to his Friend Frank
How many Feet of Fruit did Freaky Fred Find?

If Mad Fred found 50 pounds of fruit
And fed 40 pounds to his friend Frank,
How many pounds of fruit would Mad Fred find?

Difficult English phrases. Level C1 – Upper-intermediate/advanced

These tongue twisters are for true connoisseurs and lovers of the English language. They are also not without a share of humor, but their pronunciation will require a little more skill and patience.

Table 3. Compound tongue twisters in English with translation.

Patter Translation

A tree toad loved a she-toad
Who lived up in a tree.
He was a two-toed tree toad
But a three-toed toad was she.
The two-toed tree toad tried to win
The three-toed she-toad's heart,
For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground
That the three-toed tree toad trod.
But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain.
He couldn't please her whim.
From her tree toad bower
With her three-toed power
The she-toad vetoed him.

A tree toad fell in love with a toad girl
who lived in a tree.
It was a toad with two big toes,
And it had three fingers.
The two-toed tree toad tried to win the
heart of the three-toed toad,
Because the two-toed toad loved the ground That the
three-toed toad walked on.
But the two-toed toad tried in vain.
He couldn't please her.
From her tree toad dwelling
place With her three-fingered might
She rejected him.

Ed Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not.
So it is better to be Shott than Nott.
Some say Nott was not shot.
But Shott says he shot Nott.
Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot, or Nott was shot.
If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot.
But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott, the shot was Shott, not Nott.
However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott - but Nott.
So, Ed Nott was shot and that's hot! Is it not?

Ed Knott got shot, but Sam Schott didn't.
So it's better to be a Schott than a Nott.
Some say Knott didn't get shot.
But Schott says he shot Knott.
Either the shot Schott who shot Schott wasn't shot, or Knott wasn't shot.
However, the shot Schott shot not Schott, but Nott.
So Ed Knott got shot, wow! Is not it?