Tongue Twisters to improve pronunciation in English

1. 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?
2. She sells seashells on the seashore.
The shells she sells are seashells, I’m sure.
And if she sells seashells on the seashore,
Then I’m sure she sells seashore shells.
3. Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Spread it thick, say it quick!
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Spread it thicker, say it quicker!
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Don’t eat with your mouth full!
4. 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 I thought.
5. 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
6. 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
7. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
8. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
9. I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop
10. Susie works in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines she sits, and where she sits she shines
11. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?
12. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
13. I have got a date at a quarter to eight; I’ll see you at the gate, so don’t be late
14. You know New York, you need New York, you know you need unique New York
15. I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen
16. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
17. I thought I thought of thinking of thanking you
18. I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch
19. Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear
20. Eddie edited it
21. Willie’s really weary
22. A big black bear sat on a big black rug
23. Tom threw Tim three thumbtacks
24. He threw three free throws
25. Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely
26. So, this is the sushi chef
27. Four fine fresh fish for you
28. Wayne went to wales to watch walruses
29. Six sticky skeletons (x3)
30. Which witch is which? (x3)
31. Snap crackle pop (x3)
32. Flash message (x3)
33. Red Buick, blue Buick (x3)
34. Red lorry, yellow lorry (x3)
35. Thin sticks, thick bricks (x3)
36. Stupid superstition (x3)
37. Eleven benevolent elephants (x3)
38. Two tried and true tridents (x3)
39. Rolling red wagons (x3)
40. Black back bat (x3)
41. She sees cheese (x3)
42. Truly rural (x3)
43. Good blood, bad blood (x3)
44. Pre-shrunk silk shirts (x3)
45. Ed had edited it. (x3)
46. We surely shall see the sun shine soon
47. Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
48. Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread
49. I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit
50. A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk
51. Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better
52. If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse
cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
53. Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
54. Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.
55. Of all the vids I’ve ever viewed, I’ve never viewed a vid as valued as Alex’s engVid vid
56. Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered
threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug – although, theatrically, it was only the
thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty-year-old
thug thought of that morning.
57. To begin to toboggan first buy a toboggan, but don't buy too big a toboggan. Too big a
toboggan is too big a toboggan to buy to begin to toboggan.
Useful videos:
1. Accent Expert Breaks Down Tongue Twisters in Different Accents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJm0UbN7jbk
2. Pronunciation practice: Tongue Twister (English Dialogue)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tvZ-J5AsfM
3. English Tongue Twisters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McJ6JI_2JQo
4. Tongue Twisters - British Pronunciation - Exercise 1of2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbrsgS5V3s0
5. Ultimate Tongue Twister Battle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqEKbS0h4HM