Contoh “TONGUE TWISTER”

Waktu kecil kita pasti sering memainkan permainan mengucapkan kata-kata sulit dengan cepat. Seperti “kuku kakiku kayak kuku kaki kakakku”. Permainan seperti ini namanya pembelit lidah atau dalam bahasa Inggris disebut tongue twisters.

Tongue twisters selain dipakai untuk bercanda di antara teman-teman, ini juga dipakai untuk melatih pronounciation atau penyebutan kata. Jika sedang mempelajari bahasa baru yang bukan bahasa asli kita, untuk semakin memperlancar penyebutan, tidak ada salahnya untuk berlatih menggunakan tongue twisters bahasa asing yang sedang kita pelajari.

Di bawah ini kami akan memberikan contoh-contoh tongue twisters dalam bahasa Inggris. Mulai dari yang tingkatannya sangat mudah hingga sulit. Berlatihlah mengucapkannya untuk memperbaiki pronounciation.

1. SHORT TONGUE TWISTERS

Tongue  twisters di bawah ini masih mudah untuk diucapkan karena hanya terdiri dari dua sampai empat kata.

• Really leery, rarely Larry.
• Truly rural.
• A snake sneaks to seek a snack.
• Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle.
• Cooks cook cupcakes quickly
• Six sticky skeletons
• Eleven benevolent elephants.
• She sees cheese.
• Pad kid poured curd pulled cod.
• Which witch is which ?
• Willy’s real rear wheel.
• Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.
• A happy hippo hopped and hiccupped.

2. TONGUE TWISTERS FOR KIDS

Mau tongue twisters yang lebih mudah diucapkan ? Coba berlatih dengan deretan kalimat tongue twisters untuk anak-anak di bawah ini.

• Blue bluebird.
• Red lorry, yellow lorry.
• Daddy Draws Doors.
• Three free throws.
• The big bug bit the little beetle.
• Friendly fleas and fireflies.
• Fresh fried fish.
• Specific Pacific.
• Betty’s big bunny bobbled by the blueberry bushs.
• Green glass globes glow greenly.
• If a dog chew shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
• Rubber baby buggy bumpers.

3. FUNNY AND DIFFICULT TONGUE TWISTERS

Belum cukup puas dengan tongue twisters yang ada ? Kali ini ada tongue twisters yang akan membuat anda tersenyum bahkan tertawa, karena tongue twisters di bawah ini dikenal sebagai funny tongue twisters alias pembelit lidah yang lucu, dan jangan lupa, tongue twister di bawah ini juga akan semakin membuat lidah Anda terbelit.

• Of all the felt I ever felt,
  I never felt a piece of felt
  Which felt as fine as that felt felt,
  When first I felt that felt hat’s felt.
• I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wish I won’t wish the wish you wish to wish.
• I scream, you scream,
  We all scream for ice cream
• Does this shop sport short socks with spots?
• Susan shineth shoes and socks;
  Socks and shoes shines Susan.
  She ceased shining shoes and socks,
  For shoes and socks shock Susan.
• 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.
• How many cans can a canner can if a canner can cancans? A canner can cans as many cans as a canner cans if a canner can cans can.
• Terry Teeter a teeter-totter teacher taught her daughter Tara to teeter-totter
  But Tara Teeter did not as Terry Teeter taught her to.
• Birdie birdy in the sky laid a turdie in my eye, if cow could fly I would have a cow pie in my eye.
• How much ground would a groundhog hogs, if a groundhog could hog ground?
  A groundhog would hog the ground he could hog, if a groundhog could hog the ground.
• I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.
• If you must cross a course cross cows across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
• Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbuses, and bludgeons – balancing them badly.
• Six sick hicks nick six slicks bricks with pick and stick.
• Can you can a canned can into an uncanned can like a canner can can a canned can into an uncanned can ?
• Imagine an imaginary menagerie managers managing an imaginary menagerie.
• Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.
• Send toast to ten tense stouts saint’s ten tall tents.
• 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.
• The thirty three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
• Three thin thieves thought a thousand thoughts.
  if three thin thieve thought a thousand thoughts,
  How many thoughts did each thief think ?
• Whether the weather be fine,
  Or whether the weather be not,
  Whether the weather be cold,
  Or whether the weather be hot,
  We’ll weather the weather
  Whatever the weather,
  Whether we like it or not.
• Susan shines shoes and Sarah saw a shot-silk sash shop full of shot-silk sashes as the sunshine shone on the side of the shot-silk sash shop.
• No need to light a night light on a light night like tonight.
• Swan swam over the sea,
  Swim, swan, swim!
  Swan swam back again
  Well swum, swan!
• While we were walking, we were watching window washer washes Washington’s windows with warm washing water.