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Tongue twisters are a great way to practice and improve pronunciation and fluency.

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.

  1. She sells seashells by the seashore.

  2. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

  3. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.

  4. I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop.

  5. You know New York, you need New York, you know you need unique New York.

  6. I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen.

  7. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?

  8. I thought I thought of thinking of thanking you.

  9. om threw Tim three thumbtacks.

  10. He threw three free throws.

  11. Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.

  12. So, this is the sushi chef.

  13. 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?

  14. Betty Botter 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 Botter bought a bit of better butter

  15. 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

  16. Susie works in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines she sits, and where she sits she shines.

  17. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?

  18. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?

  19. We surely shall see the sun shine soon.

  20. Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?

  21. Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread.

  22. I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.

  23. A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

  24. Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.

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