A collection of long tongue twisters. Also recommended for practicing announcements and narration.
Among tongue twisters that test articulation and smooth delivery, we’ll highlight and introduce longer ones.
The connections between words and the rhythm of the sentences add a level of difficulty unique to longer passages.
By repeatedly challenging yourself with hard-to-read text, your articulation will gradually improve, leading to clearer speech and smoother everyday conversation.
The key is to aim for clear, easy-to-understand pronunciation—like a news announcer reading the news.
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Collection of long tongue twisters. Also recommended for practicing announcements and narration. (11–20)
A noble enemy’s shoulder-tapping machine, devoted to a vertically written letter dashed off with its mane bristling; to drawing shadows that locked a key on a half-scorched bamboo fence of a horsehair crab set out with a detective to a cliff and a surgeon; and to writing a radical opera, chipped a bamboo stand propped up halfway.NEW!
A tongue twister packed with continuous sounds that tangle your tongue—perfect for a real challenge.
In this long phrase, similar sounds like “ka,” “ke,” “ta,” and “ki” appear over and over, so when you speak it aloud your mouth quickly can’t keep up.
Kids can tackle it playfully while imagining a story, and adults can enjoy it as an exercise for the tongue and mouth or for pronunciation practice.
Each reading changes the rhythm and pacing, letting you savor both the joy of voicing it and a good laugh at the same time.
By repeating complex sounds, it offers both a sense of challenge and accomplishment—an ultra-advanced tongue twister!
Art room, technology room, operating room, art preparation room, technology preparation room, operating preparation roomNEW!
Because the words for “room” and “preparation room” keep popping up, the moment you read it aloud your mouth can’t keep up and you can’t help but laugh.
Both kids and adults can enjoy it playfully while picturing familiar school classrooms and hospital rooms.
Each time you read it, the rhythm and the timing of your pauses shifts a little, so the more you repeat it, the more fun it becomes to use your voice.
If you read while conjuring different images for “art,” “technology,” and “surgery,” it feels like more than mere diction practice—you can savor a sense of story, too.
Once you read it, it’s addictive, so definitely give it a try.
A customer eats persimmons and a courier eats persimmons; when the courier eats persimmons, the customer also eats persimmons. Both the customer and the courier are good at eating persimmons, customer-courier.
A tongue twister that depicts a customer and an express messenger taking turns trying to eat persimmons—the similarity in the pronunciation of “kyaku” (customer) and “hikyaku” (express messenger) is a tricky point, too.
It’s a tongue twister that trains proper K-row pronunciation, and clearly articulating tongue movement and plosive release leads to smooth, easy-to-understand speech.
You place the back of the tongue up and then release the air in a burst from that position; in sequences of repeated sounds, fine tongue movements and controlled airflow are crucial.
Also, since the K-row syllable “ki”—whose airflow release is particularly difficult—appears frequently, repeated practice can help strengthen the tongue and throat muscles involved in articulation.
House’s andon, maru-andon; next door’s andon, maru-andon; over there’s andon, maru-andon—put the three together and it’s three maru maru-andon.
Because it contains the unfamiliar word andon, this tongue twister may seem difficult at first, but its steady, pleasing rhythm makes it catchy and easy to memorize, almost like a rap.
An andon is a type of lighting fixture dating back to the Edo period; it sometimes appears in period dramas, so some of you may already know it.
Since this tongue twister mentions andon repeatedly, it may become easier to read if you speak it aloud while picturing the scene in your mind.
It’s a bit long, but give it a try!
Since I couldn’t tell whether it was a mule or a donkey, I compared the mule and the donkey, but I still couldn’t tell whether it was a donkey or a mule.
Some people might give up reading it at first glance because it looks so long, but this tongue twister isn’t that hard once you understand what it means! It’s about not being able to tell whether it’s a mule or a donkey just by looking, so you compare them—but still can’t figure it out.
Once you grasp that meaning and try saying it out loud, you may find it surprisingly easy to read! Just note there are tricks where the order of “mule” and “donkey” is swapped, so get past that and read it rhythmically!