Tongue Twisters for English Language Learners [150+]

If you are an English as an additional language learner and you are looking for ways to improve your pronunciation in English in a fun way, practice saying these tongue twisters for English language learners. You will not only improve your English but you will also laugh a lot while doing so.

What Tongue Twisters Are

According to Wikipedia, “a tongue twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly and can be used as a type of spoken word game. Additionally, they can be used as exercises to improve pronunciation and fluency”.

Do Tongue Twisters Help Improve Your English?

The simplest possible answer is: yes, they do.

Besides teaching you vocabulary that you do not know yet, tongue twisters for English language learners are one of the best ways to improve your pronunciation in the language since you will practice the pronunciation of a lot of different sounds in English.

Additionally, it has been known for a long time that people learn better when they are having fun. Tongue twisters are a perfect way to combine both language learning and a good time!

What Is the Hardest Tongue Twister in English?

According to research carried out at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Pad kid poured curd pulled cold” is the hardest tongue twister in English (you can listen to an amazing podcast about tongue twisters by clicking here! If you want to know other amazing podcasts for you to learn English from, check our list of the best podcasts to learn English)

Tongue Twisters for English Language Learners

Now, enjoy our list of great tongue twisters for English language learners!

A big black bear sat on a big black rug.
A flea and a fly flew up in a flue.
A happy hippo hopped and hiccupped.
A loyal warrior will rarely worry why we rule.
A pessimistic pest exists amidst us.
A proper copper coffee pot.
A really leery Larry rolls readily to the road.
A sailor went to sea to see what he could see. And all he could see was sea, sea, sea.
A shapeless sash sags slowly.
A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk
A snake sneaks to seek a snack.
A synonym for cinnamon is a cinnamon synonym.
A tutor who tooted the flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to the tutor, “Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?”
An ape hates grape cakes.
Any noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more.
Bake big batches of bitter brown bread.
Betty Botter bought a bit of butter. “But,” she said, “this bit of butter’s bitter, But a bit of better butter mixed with this butter might just make my bit of bitter butter better.” So, Betty bought a bit of better butter to make her bitter butter better.
Betty’s big bunny bobbled by the blueberry bush.
Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye. If cows could fly I’d have a cow pie in my eye.
Black back bat.
Black background, brown background
Blue bluebird.
Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons — balancing them badly.
Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
Can you can a canned can into an un-canned can like a canner can can a canned can into an un-canned can?
Chester cheetah chews a chunk of cheap cheddar cheese. If the chunk of cheese chunked Chester cheetah, what would Chester cheetah chew and chunk on?
Cooks cook cupcakes quickly.
Daddy Draws Doors.
Double bubble gum, bubbles double.
Drew Dodd’s dad’s dog’s dead.
Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.
Eddie had edited it
Eleven benevolent elephants.
Elizabeth has eleven elves in her elm tree.
Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes.
Flash message
Four fine fresh fish for you.
Four furious friends fought for the phone.
Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread.
Fresh French fried fly fritters
Fresh fried fish, fish fresh fried, fried fish fresh, fish fried fresh.
Friendly fleas and fireflies.
Frivolously fanciful Fannie fried fresh fish furiously
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?
Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.
Gobbling gargoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.
Good blood, bad blood.
Greek grapes, Greek grapes, Greek grapes.
Green glass globes glow greenly.
He threw three balls.
He threw three free throws.
How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
How many yaks could a yak pack, pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?
How much dew does a dewdrop drop If dewdrops do drop dew? As do dewdrops drop If dewdrops do drop dew.
How much ground would a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground? A groundhog would hog all the ground he could hog, if a groundhog could hog ground.
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.
I have got a date at a quarter to eight; I’ll see you at the gate, so don’t be late.
I looked right at Larry’s rally and left in a hurry.
I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen.
I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines, she sits, and where she sits, she shines.
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.
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.
I thought I thought of thinking of thanking you.
I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch.
If a black bug bleeds black blood, what colour blood does a blue bug bleed?
If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
If one doctor doctors another doctor, then which doctor is doctoring the doctored doctor? Does the doctor who doctors the doctor, doctor the doctor the way the doctor is doctoring doctors?
If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I’m perfectly practiced and practically perfect.
If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing.
If you want to buy, buy, if you don’t want to buy, bye-bye!
Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.
Kindly kittens knitting mittens keep kazooing in the king’s kitchen.
Kitty caught the kitten in the kitchen.
Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
Linda-Lou Lambert loves lemon lollipop lipgloss.
Little Lillian lets lazy lizards lie along the lily pads.
Lucky rabbits like to cause a ruckus.
Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone.
Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear.
Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
No need to light a night-light on a light night like tonight.
One-one was a race horse. Two-two was one too. One-one won one race. Two-two won one too.
Pad kid poured curd pulled cod.
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 that Peter Piper picked?
Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter, ’tis the peanut-butter picky people pick.
Pre-shrunk silk shirts.
Really leery, rarely Larry.
Red Buick, blue Buick.
Red lorry, yellow lorry.
Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins.
Rolling red wagons.
Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.
Rory’s lawn rake rarely rakes really right.
Round and round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.
Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle.
Selfish shellfish.
Send toast to ten tense stout saints’ ten tall tents.
Seventy-seven benevolent elephants.
She saw Sharif’s shoes on the sofa. But was she so sure those were Sharif’s shoes she saw?
She sees cheese.
She sells seashells by the seashore of Seychelles.
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.
She stood on the balcony, inexplicably mimicking him hiccuping, and amicably welcoming him in.
Sheena leads, Sheila needs.
Sheep should sleep in a shed.
Six Czech cricket critics.
Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards.
Six slimy snails slid slowly seaward.
Six sticky skeletons.
Smelly shoes and socks shock sisters.
Snap crackle pop.
So, this is the sushi chef.
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.
Specific Pacific.
Stupid superstition.
Susie works in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines she sits, and where she sits she shines.
Swan swam over the sea, swim, swan, swim! Swan swam back again well swum, swan!
The 33 thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
The big bug bit the little beetle.
The blue bluebird blinks.
The chic Sikh’s sixty-sixth sheep is sick
The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes.
The sixth sick sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick.
The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
Thin sticks, thick bricks.
Thirty-three thousand feathers on a thrushes throat.
Three free throws.
Tie twine to three tree twigs.
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.
Tom threw Tim three thumbtacks.
Top chopstick shops stock top chopsticks.
Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.
Truly rural.
Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.
Two tried and true tridents.
Wayne went to wales to watch walruses.
We surely shall see the sunshine soon.
Whether the weather is warm, whether the weather is hot, we have to put up with the weather, whether we like it or not.
Which witch is which?
Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
Willie’s really weary.
Willy’s real rear wheel.
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 until you are spreading it like a spread!
You know New York, you need New York, you know you need unique New York
Zebras zig and zebras zag.
“Surely Sylvia swims!” shrieked Sammy surprised. “Someone should show Sylvia some strokes so she shall not sink.”