{"id":6791,"date":"2019-09-20T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utalk.com\/news\/?p=6791"},"modified":"2019-09-20T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T15:00:43","slug":"can-you-say-these-10-devious-tongue-twisters-in-10-different-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/can-you-say-these-10-devious-tongue-twisters-in-10-different-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Say These 10 Devious Tongue Twisters in 10 Different Languages?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Every language has its own tongue twisters\u2014words or phrases that are difficult to say without making mistakes. In this post, we\u2019ll show you ten different tongue twisters in ten different languages; can you say them all?<\/em>
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How many tongue twisters do you know in English? Red lorry, yellow lorry<\/em> is a fun one, though perhaps a little easier than she sells seashells on the seashore.<\/em> The good thing about tongue twisters is that they\u2019re a tool you can use when learning a language (they\u2019re often used for diction exercises because they help you practise tricky sounds) and, most importantly, they\u2019re fun!
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We\u2019ve collected ten difficult tongue twisters from ten different languages for you to try out\u2014see if you can say them all without making any mistakes!
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1. Scottish Gaelic<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cL\u00econ l\u00e0n rionnach ‘s r\u00f2n l\u00e0n leanna.\u201d Meaning: A net full of mackerel and a seal full of beer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Xhosa<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIqaqa laziqikaqika kwaze kwaqhawaka uqhoqhoqha.\u201d Meaning: The skunk rolled down and ruptured its larynx. (Eek!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Cebuano<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAng kwarta ko sa kwarto kwatro.\u201d Meaning: The money I had in the room is four pesos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Korean<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\ub0b4\uac00 \uadf8\ub9b0 \uae30\ub9b0 \uadf8\ub9bc\uc740 \uc798 \uadf8\ub9b0 \uae30\ub9b0 \uadf8\ub9bc\uc774\uace0, \ub124\uac00 \uadf8\ub9b0 \uae30\ub9b0 \uadf8\ub9bc\uc740 \ubabb\uc0dd\uae34 \uae30\ub9b0 \uadf8\ub9bc\uc774\ub2e4,\u201d or, if you can\u2019t quite read that yet, \u201cnega geurin girin geurimeun jal geurin girin geurimigo nega geurin girin geurimeun jal mot geurin girin geurimida.\u201d Meaning: I draw a giraffe picture, a pretty giraffe picture. You draw a giraffe picture, an ugly giraffe picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Yoruba<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cObo n’gb’Obo g’ope, ko f’iru Obo bo Obo l’enu. T’i ko ba tete gb’obo bo’gbe, Obo yio gbe o bo’gbe.\u201d Meaning: A monkey carries another monkey up the palm tree, put the monkey\u2019s tail in the monkey\u2019s mouth. If you do not quickly carry the monkey into the forest, the monkey will carry you into the forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Finnish<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVesihiisi sihisi hississ\u00e4.\u201d Meaning: The water spirit\/seamonster was hissing in the elevator. (Pro tip: try repeating this one five or ten times for maximum effect!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Romanian<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u015etiu c\u0103 \u015ftiu c\u0103 \u015ftiuca-i \u015ftiuc\u0103 \u015fi mai \u015ftiu c\u0103 \u015ftiuca mu\u015fc\u0103.\u201d Meaning: I know that I know that pike is a pike and I also know that the pike bites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. Swahili<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMbuzi hali nazi kwa vile hawezi kupanda ngazi ndipo azifikie nazi.\u201d Meaning: A goat cannot eat coconut because it cannot climb up a ladder to reach the coconuts up in the coconut tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. Welsh<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPesychwch fel y pesychasoch gynt.\u201d Meaning: Cough like you coughed earlier. (This is another one to try a few times in a row!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. English<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPad kid poured curd pulled cod.\u201d This is unlikely to be a tongue twister you learnt as a child, as it was only recently created by researchers at MIT.<\/strong><\/a> It was created to investigate how speech errors are processed in the brain and by using it, the researchers found that there could be a connection between how the brain takes in information and how you then say it afterwards. See how many times you can say this one!
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So, there we go, ten tongue twisters for you to try! Can you say any of them? Do you know any really good ones that we\u2019ve missed? Let us know on Facebook<\/strong><\/a> or Twitter<\/strong><\/a>\u2014and if you\u2019re feeling adventurous, go ahead and record yourself saying a few tongue twisters and tag us in your video! 
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Gura math thi\u00e8d leibh! (Good luck!)
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(Oh, and, here\u2019s a secret bonus Latin<\/strong><\/a> tongue twister: \u201cMimi numinum nivium minimi munium nimium vini muniminum imminui vivi minimum volunt.\u201d This is both a tongue twister and was (and still is!) used to practise Medieval calligraphy<\/strong><\/a>; it means: The very short mimes of the gods of snow do not at all wish that during their lifetime the very great burden of [distributing] the wine of the walls to be lightened. Can you say this one?)
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Every language has its own tongue twisters\u2014words or phrases that are difficult to say without making mistakes. In this post, we\u2019ll show you ten different tongue twisters in ten different languages; can you say them all? How many tongue twisters do you know in English? Red lorry, yellow lorry is a fun one, though perhaps … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[1716,1714,32,122,261,333,52,227,316,784,283,755,266,1713,1715],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}