Tongue-Twister

Remember how much fun we had mastering tongue-twister in school so that we can out twist our friend's tongue?

Here are some good ones:

My favourite one:

She sells sea shells on a sea shore, so the shells she sells are sure sea shore shells

A longer one (try saying it in one breath!):

Betty Botter bought some butter, "But", she said "this 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 she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter, and she put it in her batter and her batter was not bitter! So 'twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.

And a well-known short English one:

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

The hardest tongue-twister in the English language is supposedly:

'The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick.' ~ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Tongue-twisters are available in various language. Yesterday, I learnt my first French tongue-twister. It involved a lot of saliva spitting and phlegm gargling.

Sacha le chat sortant de chez ce cher Serge (Sasha the cat exits from dear Serge's place)


I thought that was fairly easy. So, I ask the teacher to give me some more challenging ones. 'Come on, bring it on!'

Trois foies gras d'oie frais, trois foies gras d'oie tres frais (I guess it has something to do with three very expensive goose livers)

Sache que ça se cache et cache que ça ne se sache (I'm getting blur...)

C'est si cher chez serge que ça se sait chez tout le monde (??? Lost in translation) =P


I find the one below the hardest. I am absolutely clueless as to what this whole sentence means. I can only guess that it has something to do with mowing tunas and tons of horseflies with an uncle.

Avec tonton, tondons ton thon et tondant ton thon, tondons donc ta tonne de taons

I have tried to say it but the only sound that came out was, "Avec ton ton, ton ton ton ton et ton ton ton ton, ton ton donc ta ton de ton". =(

Imagine the agony of sitting through a french dictation test with these tongue-twisters. C'est impossible!