The most difficult tongue twisters for children and adults

We rush to tell the news or reproduce a thought, without even thinking about the fact that we “swallow” a lot of sounds and turn speech into an inarticulate stream of words. The interlocutor may quickly lose interest in communication, and the story will not sound convincing. To avoid awkward situations, you should work on your diction. The best trainers for this purpose will be the most complex tongue twisters in the world.

Mastering complex tongue twisters is a useful and fun activity. From time immemorial, peoples specially invented phrases so that the combination of certain sounds would be difficult to pronounce. Regular repetition of the most difficult tongue twisters will make your speech clear and improve articulation. This type of speech training will also help you pass the time with friends, since mistakes in the pronunciation of large and complex tongue twisters will cause a lot of smiles and laughter.

Why is it so hard to pronounce

Linguists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology tried to understand what happens to the speech areas of the brain during the pronunciation of tongue twisters. And they came to the conclusion that difficulties arise when a person tries to pronounce two sounds at once almost simultaneously. This double attack creates a “delay” in brain function. Groups of neurons responsible for the pronunciation of sounds that alternate in tongue twisters, at this moment approach each other at a critical distance. And in fact, they begin to interfere with each other by sending signals.

The most difficult proverb in the English language was recognized as: “pad kid poured curd pulled cod.” One of the volunteers tried to pronounce it, then could not utter a word for some time.

And among the linguists in Russian there are many that are difficult to pronounce. It is difficult for them to share the palm. Perhaps everyone can remember their own saying that is difficult for them.

How to learn the most difficult tongue twisters in the world

Do you want to master eloquence? Then don’t waste time and start practicing. Just 10-15 minutes of repetition a day of the most difficult tongue twisters in Russian , and you will not only learn how to speak in public, but will also do it without stress. Before starting classes, you need to clearly understand what problems exist in diction in order to accurately select large and complex tongue twisters .

For flawless mastery of the text of the speech simulator, you should:

correctly place stress on each word;
slowly pronounce words, memorizing the most difficult sound combinations;
control the movement of lips and tongue when vocalizing complex syllables and practice difficult speech in front of a mirror. The best way to tell if your articulation is correct is to have someone read your lips;
hum and whisper the text of difficult tongue twisters under strict control of the correct reproduction of sounds and rhythm;
alternate the volume and timbre of the voice at the time of repetition;
gradually speed up the pace;
if there are no inaccuracies in complex and long tongue twisters , pronounce them at maximum speed in a loud voice.

Macaque and koala

The infrequently used tongue twister about Macaque is sure to please children. Here is a difficult to pronounce alternation of the sounds “M”, “L” and “K”:

A macaque met a koala in a cafe. Macaque koala dipped in cocoa, Koala lazily lapped cocoa, Macaque dipped, koala ikala.

Such a clean phrase is designed to emphasize the pronunciation of “L”, which not all children succeed in, there is no clarity. But so that parents themselves do not feel ashamed in front of their child, it is worth learning to pronounce without mistakes themselves. In case of a fiasco, you can laugh together.

The latest tongue twisters for children and adults

It is worth sharing tongue twisters that have not yet found widespread use due to their complexity. Let's try to say it right now:

Nadezhda does not want old clothes, as before, but hope for new clothes attracts Nadezhda.
Prokol Polukarpenko told the general about Prokolukarpenko from Pokrov.
The courteous Chukchi honors the feelings of others; learn from the Chukchi to feel more sensitively.
In the port of Madras, where the longboat arrived, the albatrosses tore the sailor's mattress.
The beggar rustles in thousands and fifty thousandths.
Deftly maneuvering in laryngology, the laryngologist easily cured laryngitis.

It’s interesting that some people have no difficulty pronouncing such phrases, while others cannot repeat them either the first or the second time.

Speech apparatus training

Television announcers, event hosts, speakers - they all must speak clearly, clearly and confidently. Therefore, before a performance, they like to practice their speech apparatus with tongue twisters. Frequently used and difficult to pronounce:

“Thirty-three ships tacked, tacked, but never tacked.” A short saying, but how difficult it is not to immediately get confused in the letters and sounds. This phrase is designed not so much for purity of pronunciation as for attentiveness. Mistakes by announcers and TV presenters are most often associated with a lack of concentration. Tacking ships just help you concentrate. By the way, this is only part of the tongue twister, which in the original is twice as long.
“Just as you can’t ring all the bells, you can’t beat them again, so you can’t talk all the tongue twisters too quickly.” Another tongue twister for developing concentration. To pronounce these words accurately requires attention and more attention. And the speech apparatus becomes more mobile. Diction improves.

When pronouncing linguists, not only the speech apparatus works, but also the brain. Our brain “recognizes” the familiar more often and more easily. It is enough to hear the first sounds or see the first letters written on a piece of paper, the rest is instantly “conjectured” by the brain automatically. And in tongue twisters there are unfamiliar phrases about which the brain “comes into confusion.” This awakens him from his lazy slumber and contributes to his training and development. Like morning exercises for the body in the morning.

How to work with tongue twisters to improve diction

Speech therapists use tongue twisters to teach children and adults to clearly pronounce similar sounds.
We are talking about sounds, for the formation of which the tongue, jaw, and facial muscles make similar movements. Most often, difficulties arise with “l” and “r”: both sounds require the tongue to rise to the roof of the mouth and its tip to remain soft. Another pair of problematic sounds are “s” and “sh”, “m” and “n”. If your speech is not clear enough, you are most likely slurring one of these groups of sounds. It is difficult to independently determine a hearing defect, so consult a speech therapist or public speaking teacher at least a couple of times so that he can give recommendations on improving diction.

Tongue twisters are built on a combination of a pair of similar, difficult to distinguish sounds, so they help effectively develop speech. Ideally, you should go through all pairs of sounds and all groups of tongue twisters, but if you have problems with the pronunciation of “l”, “r”, “sh”, “s” or other sounds, you should start training with tongue twisters for “problem” syllables. The standard program of exercises with tongue twisters offers the following sequence: first, dull hissing sounds, then whistling and voiced sounds, and finally sonorant sounds.

This order is not random, because voiceless sounds are easiest to pronounce, sonorant sounds are the most difficult. It is not without reason that most often children and adults have problems with sonorant “r” and “l”. Of course, you can train in any order, and the improvement in speech will become noticeable over time. But the results will be faster and more noticeable if you follow the correct sequence.

Speed of pronunciation of tongue twisters

When you start working with tongue twisters, don't pronounce them quickly. To improve your speech, you need to increase the pace gradually, carefully monitoring your diction. Take one tongue twister, for example: “Karl stole corals from Clara.” First, say it very slowly and silently - just move your lips as if you are speaking, but do not make a sound. Then say “Karl stole coral from Clara” slowly and in a whisper. Make sure that every sound is pronounced very carefully, deliberately. For the third time, say the tongue twister at a natural pace and in a full voice.

If you can’t immediately say “Karl stole coral from Clara” without stuttering, speak a little slower than usual. Only when you can speak in a calm, conversational manner, say the same line at a fast pace. All attention to the clarity of diction and articulation!

The main thing is not speed, it will come with time. The correct pronunciation of each sound is more important. The final stage is pronunciation with an obstacle, a “plug” for the tongue: pebbles or nuts that will impede articulation. This is an effective way to improve diction. Take your time, talk to the stones slowly at first, then faster. So you need to work through each selected tongue twister, and more than once.

If you are not a professional, it is enough to practice for half an hour 5-6 days a week to achieve a significant improvement in diction in a month with such exercises. Often, students of rhetoric courses get down to business with enthusiasm, but quickly cool down. To prevent this from happening, do not try to embrace the immensity in one day: half an hour of exercise is enough. It’s better to spend half an hour every day or at least every other day than two hours once a week. Pay attention to correct speech.

The text of the most difficult tongue twister, try also:

Yes, and Klara the King was sneaking to the chest at that time, while Karl was stealing corals from Klara, for which Klara stole the clarinet from Karl, and then in the yard of Varvara, the tar widow, these two thieves stole firewood. But it’s a sin - not laughter - not to put it in a nut: about Klara and Karl in the darkness, all the crayfish were making noise in a fight - so the thieves had no time for the bombardier, but they had no time for the tar widow, and no time for the tar children. But the angry widow put the firewood into the barn: once firewood, two firewood, three firewood - all the firewood could not fit, and two woodcutters, two woodcutters, for the emotional Varvara, expelled the firewood across the width of the yard back to the wood yard, where the heron withered, the heron withered, the heron died.
The heron's chick clung tenaciously to the chain; well done against the sheep, and against the well done the sheep itself, to which Senya carries hay in a sleigh, then Senka carries Sonya and Sanka on a sled: the sled hops, Senka sideways, Sonya head on, everything into a snowdrift, and from there only a head of bumps knocked down Then Sasha went along the highway, Sasha found a sachet on the highway. Sonya - Sashka’s friend was walking along the highway and sucking on a dryer, and besides, Sonya the turntable also had three cheesecakes in her mouth - exactly like a honey cake, but she had no time for a honey cake - Sonya, even with cheesecakes in the sexton’s mouth, would over-mix, - over-make: buzzing like ground beetle, buzzing and spinning.
I was at Frol's - Frol lied to Lavra, he will go to the Lavra to Frol Lavra and lie to him that - the sergeant and the sergeant, the captain and the captain, the snake - the snake, the hedgehog - the hedgehog, and his high-ranking guest took away his cane, and soon again five guys We ate five again and half a quarter of a quart of lentils without a wormhole, and one thousand six hundred and sixty-six pies with cottage cheese from the whey from the yogurt.
About everything about this, around the bell the bells were ringing, so much so that even Konstantin, a Salzburg unpromising man, stated from under an armored personnel carrier: just as all the bells cannot be re-ringed, not belled again, so all the tongue twisters cannot be re-spoken, not re-spoken.

But trying is not torture!

Tongue twisters for children

Tongueworms are not usually divided into adults and children. However, there are still differences. For a child, these complex interweavings of sounds are needed in order to mint a specific sound. For example, more often difficulties arise with pronouncing a clear “R”, as well as with “Sh” and “Shch” and “S”. Some of the complex but effective sayings for children:

“Red grapes grow on Mount Ararat, but Fedora has only turnips and tomatoes in her garden.” More often than not, the strong sound “P” in the combination of the letters “ra” is easier to pronounce than the weak sound in the combination “re”. Which indicates the underdevelopment of the speech apparatus.
“Sasha walked along the highway and sucked on a dryer.” Excellent training for practicing clear pronunciation of “S” and “Sh”.
“The beaver has a good coat, but the beavers have a kinder coat.” The text is short but effective. If a child burrs, then by pronouncing similar phrases over and over again, he will begin to pronounce “R” much more clearly. And the more often you do this, the faster the result will come.

It is better not to let children memorize long texts of pure proverbs. They do not make speech richer at all, like, for example, poems or stories. Their role is different - to improve pronunciation and stop burring. This is hard, long, but necessary training. And so that it does not become a burden to the child, it is better to select funny texts that are clear in meaning.

Adults long and complex tongue twisters with text

Adult long and complex tongue twisters with text
Adults long and complex tongue twisters with text:

Not the one, comrades, a comrade to a comrade, Who with comrades is a comrade to a comrade, But the one, comrades, a comrade to a comrade, Who without comrades is a comrade to a comrade.
Programmers encapsulated, encapsulated, Encapsulated, encapsulated, and under-encapsulated.
In the depths of the tundra, otters in gaiters poke cedar kernels into buckets! Having torn out the gaiters from an otter in the tundra, wipe the cedar kernels with the otter, wipe the otter's face with the gaiters - the kernels into buckets, the otter into the tundra.
On Thursday the fourth, at four and a quarter o'clock , four little black, grimy little devils were drawing a drawing in black ink. Extremely clean, extremely clear.
Your sexton will not over-sex our sexton : our sexton will over-sex your sexton, over-sex.
The hysterically nervous constitutionalist Constantine was found acclimatized in constitutional Constantinople and with calm dignity inventing a pneumatic bag puncher.
The cap is sewn, but not in the Kolpakov style; the bell is poured, but not in the Kolokolov style. It is necessary to re-cap, re-cap. The bell needs to be re-belled, re-belled.
Feofan Mitrofanovich has three sons Feofanovich , three daughters Feofanovna, three granddaughters Mitrofanovna.
Once upon a time there lived three Chinese: Yak, Yak-Tsin-Drak, Yak-Tsin-Drak-Tsindrakokoni. Once upon a time there were three Chinese women: Tsipa, Tsipa-Dripa, Tsipa-Dripa-Limpomponi. So they married Yak to Tsipa, Yak-Tsin-Drak to Tsipa-Dripi, and Yak-Tsin-Drak-Tsindrakokoni to Tsipa-Dripa-Limpomponi.
If you lived near a blackberry tree, then it means that you are familiar with blackberry jam , and not at all with the usual strawberry jam. But if you lived near a blackberry tree, and if you lived near a strawberry tree, and if you didn’t spare time for the forest, then that means you ate excellent blackberry jam, strawberry jam every day.

Long tongue twisters

A cone drying factory requires a cone dryer to work on a cone drying machine. The cone dryer must have experience in drying cones on a cone drying machine using cone drying technology for high-quality cone drying. He must also distinguish the cone drying machine from the non-cone drying machine, repair the cone drying machine, distinguish cones suitable for cone drying from those unsuitable for cone drying, distinguish under-dried cones from over-dried cones, for each under-dried or over-dried cone, the cone dryer will receive a hit on the head with the cone dryer. Cone drying technology: after the cone collection, all the collected cones suitable for cone drying are sent to the cone drying factory on a cone transporter. The cone carrier, using a cone dumper, dumps the cones into the cone sorting department. Cone sorters using a cone sorting machine sort pine cones suitable for cone drying from those unsuitable for cone drying. Cones suitable for cone drying are sent to the cone grinding department. In the cone grinding department, cone grinders use cone grinders to grind cones from non-cone-drying cone shoots. Cones that have undergone cone grinding go to the cone crushing department. Cone crushers at cone crushers crush the cones to a cone crushing state, throwing the non-cone crushing cones into a cone dump, where the cone crushers burn the non-cone crushing cones in a cone furnace. Cone crushed cones are dried in cone dryers.

Those who lead round dances are round dancers. Those who study the creativity of choir dancers are choir dancers. Those who like to read choir dance experts are choir dance lovers. Those who hate horovodovodovedophiles are horovodovodovedophilophobes. Those who eat round dances of vedophilophobes are round dances of vedophilophobophages. Those who are fighting against the round dances of Vedophilophobophages are anti-choir dances of Vedophilophobophages. Those who pretend to be anti-choir dances of Vedophilophobophages are quasi-anti-choir dances of Vedophilophobophages!

The commander spoke about the colonel and about the colonel, about the lieutenant colonel and about the lieutenant colonel, about the lieutenant and about the lieutenant, about the second lieutenant and about the second lieutenant, about the ensign and about the ensign, about the ensign, but was silent about the ensign.

The fast talker quickly said quickly, that you can’t talk through all the tongue twisters, you can’t talk through them too quickly, But having become fast, he quickly said that you can’t talk through all the tongue twisters, you can talk them out quickly. And the tongue twisters jump like crucian carp in a frying pan.

If you didn’t live near a blackberry tree, but if you lived near a strawberry tree, then it means that strawberry jam is familiar to you, and blackberry jam is not at all familiar to you. If you lived near a blackberry tree, then it means that you are familiar with blackberry jam, and not at all with the usual strawberry jam. But if you lived near a blackberry tree, and if you lived near a strawberry tree, and if you didn’t spare time for the forest, then it means that you ate excellent blackberry jam, strawberry jam every day.

Long tongue twisters for developing diction

Move on to long and complex tongue twisters only after you begin to pronounce short lines naturally and easily. When they seem too simple to you, and you do not stumble even on the most complex combinations of sounds, this means that you are ready for the next stage of work on diction. Long tongue twisters are also pronounced in one breath, but if there are several stanzas, you can take short pauses to take air into the lungs. Don't forget to intonate the text correctly! Your speech should not be monotonous, even if you speak very quickly.

Pankrat Kondratov forgot his jack, and Pankrat couldn’t lift the tractor on the road without a jack. And a tractor jack is waiting on the road.
On Thursday the fourth at four and a quarter o'clock the Ligurian traffic controller was regulating in Liguria, but thirty-three ships tacked, tacked, but never tacked.
The commander spoke about the colonel and about the colonel, about the lieutenant colonel and about the lieutenant colonel, about the lieutenant and about the lieutenant, about the second lieutenant and about the second lieutenant, about the ensign and about the ensign, about the ensign, but said nothing about the ensign.
King Clarik has a king, Queen Carlisle has a dwarf. The dwarf is Karl, and the king is Clara. Clara has a clarinet, Karl has corals. Clara stole corals from Karl, and Karl stole Clara's clarinet. Clara doesn't have a clarinet, but she does have corals. Karl has a clarinet, but no corals. Queen Carlisle punished Clara for stealing corals from the dwarf Karl, and Clarik the king of Karl punished the one who stole the clarinet from the thief. If Karl had not stolen from Clara, Clara would not have stolen the corals, Clarik would have listened to his clarinet as he stole, and Karl gave the corals to Carlisle.

Tongue rollers for adults

For adults, tongue twisters are different. Some words may be incomprehensible to young children, but quite understandable to teenagers. And more, after all, they are aimed at concentrating attention, as well as warming up the speech apparatus. For example:

“The interviewer of the intervert interviewed about the intervention.”
“I am a helicopter. I can spin out, I can spin out.”
“The rhododendrons from the arboretum are real, but the tree-like dendroids were not discovered by the radio-controlled drone.”
"In Kabardino-Balkaria, valocordin from Bulgaria."

The Russian language can have such tricky phrases. Difficult to pronounce, they are not even easy to read. Here's another example:

“A sorcerer practiced magic in a stable with the wise men.”
“The queen invited the gentleman into the caravel: gentleman, gentleman, the rug was burnt.”

Some phrases will be difficult for a preschooler to understand, and there is no point in understanding them. That's why such tongue twisters are for artists, announcers and presenters. And also for those who just want to surprise their friends.

Tongue twisters are the most difficult in the world. 200 tongue twisters for developing diction

The interviewer interviewed the interventionist.
Once upon a time there lived three Chinese: Yak, Yak-tsedrak, Yak-tsedrak-tsedrak-tsedroni. Once upon a time there were three Chinese women: Tsypa, Tsypa-drypa, Tsypa-drypa-drympamponi. They all got married: Yak to Tsypa, Yak-tsedrak to Tsypa-drypa, Yak-tsedrac-tsedrac-tsedroni to Tsypa-drypa-drympamponi. And they had children. For Yak and Tsypa - Shah, for Yak-tsedrak with Tsypa-drypa - Shah-sharah, for Yak-tsedrak-tsedrak-tsedroni with Tsypa-drypa-drympamponi - Shah-sharah-sharah-shironi.
Tell us about your shopping! — What kind of shopping? About shopping, about shopping, about your purchases.
The snout pig was white-nosed, blunt-nosed; I dug up half the yard with my snout, dug, dug.
The fast talker quickly said quickly, That you can’t quickly talk all the tongue twisters, but you can’t over-speak all the tongue twisters, But, having quickly spoken, he quickly said, That you can’t talk all the tongue twisters, but you can’t over-speak.
And the tongue twisters jump like crucian carp in a frying pan.
Karl stole Klara's advertising, and Klara stole Karl's budget.
Advertising for grips has seams with coverage, but potholders without coverage have been snatched up.
The merchandisers lied - samovar sampling was ruined!
The core consumers of piastres are pirates, and pirates are piranhas.
The strip about carpets was replaced by two half-strips about vacuum cleaners.
The biceps on a bodybuilder’s cityboard are small.
Creative is not creative, it needs to be re-creative!
Brainstorm: noise, thunder, shouting of mouths, feast of rhymes, suddenly - boom! Shine!
The sample of cleaners driving Rolls-Royces is unrepresentative.
Popcorn bag.
The bankers were rebranded, rebranded, rebranded, but not rebranded.
In Cannes the lions did not wreath wreaths for the lazy.
In Kabardino-Balkaria, valocordin from Bulgaria.
De-ideologized, de-ideologized, and pre-ideologized.
Their pesticides are not comparable to ours in terms of their pesticide effectiveness.
Coconut cookers boil coconut juice in coconut cookers.
The workers privatized the enterprise, privatized it, but did not privatize it.
Lilac teeth picker.
The fluorographer was fluorographing the fluorographer.
I'm a vertical climber. I can twist my stump, I can twist my stump.
The Staffordshire Terrier is zealous, and the black-haired Giant Schnauzer is playful.
Is this colonialism? - No, this is not colonialism, but neo-colonialism!
A sorcerer was doing magic in a stable with the wise men.
We ate and ate ruffs at the spruce tree. They were barely finished at the spruce.
Grass in the yard, firewood on the grass. Don't cut wood on the yard grass!
Our head has out-headed your head, out-headed.
Pavel swaddled and swaddled Pavlushka and unswaddled him.
He reported, but didn’t finish his report; I completed my report, and I did.
The Ligurian traffic controller was regulating in Liguria.
The weather in our courtyard has become wet.
Senya and Sanya have a catfish with a mustache in their hallway.
The wasp does not have whiskers, not whiskers, but antennae.
Senka is carrying Sanka and Sonya on a sled. Sledge jump, Senka off his feet, Sonya in the forehead, everything - into a snowdrift.
Osip is hoarse, Arkhip is hoarse.
He doesn’t want to mow with a scythe, he says, scythe is a scythe.
The net caught on a twig.
Seven of us sat in the sleigh ourselves.

How to pronounce difficult to pronounce phrases

In order to practice pronunciation of lingual tongues both humorously and usefully, you should follow the rules:

At first, just read to visually remember the words.
Repeat slowly twice and remember.
Speak faster, trying not to make mistakes in the correct sounds. Don’t confuse where the hard sound “M” is and where the soft sound is – “mom washed Mila with soap...”. Do not confuse the sounds, so as not to end up with an indecent word - “There is a hill with sacks near the road. If I go out onto the hill, I’ll straighten the sack.” “I drive through potholes, I can’t get out of potholes.”

The brain will persistently rearrange sounds, forcing you to pronounce not quite decent phrases. And now you need to repeat it quickly and so several times. If it works, great! You have reached your goal. But it didn’t work out, they made everyone laugh, and that’s great too!