International Collection of Tongue Twisters (2018)
by NaOH on 1/26/2026, 4:02:55 PM
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by: NetMageSCW
A lot of them seem less like tongue twisters and more like plays on homophones, for English, at least.
1/31/2026, 6:22:43 AM
by: cr3cr3
I found it a lot more difficult to read any of the tongue twisters due websites color scheme. For a moment I thought there's an issue with my brain!
1/31/2026, 6:10:00 AM
by: augusteo
Growing up in Indonesia, we had "Kuku kaki kakekku kayak kuku kaki kakakku" (my grandfather's toenails look like my older sibling's toenails). The repetitive k-sounds are brutal.<p>What's interesting is how tongue twisters reveal what's phonetically tricky in each language. English struggles with s/sh transitions ("she sells seashells"). Indonesian targets the k-cluster combinations.<p>Curious if there's research on whether practicing tongue twisters in a second language actually helps with accent reduction, or if it's just party tricks.
1/31/2026, 5:19:07 AM