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Japanese Tongue Twisters
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Japanese Tongue Twisters (早口言葉)
Here are some examples of so-called tongue twisters. The first list contains words or sentences I stumbled upon (or sometimes over) myself, and the second list is from a website I found somewhere and which I thought I would like to share with everyone else!
My tongue twisters
暖かくなかった
Atatakakunakatta
It wasn't warm
手術室
Shujutsushitsu
Operating (surgery) room
当たってたって
Atattetatte
He said he guessed it
大野のその各々の斧を戦く顔で見つめた
Oono no sono onoono no ono o ononoku kao de mitsumeta
Shaking my head, I looked at each of the axes in the large field.
Famous tongue twisters
東京特許許可局
Toukyou Tokkyo Kyokakyoku
Tokyo Patent Approval Bureau
坊主が屏風に上手に坊主の絵を書いた。
Bouzu ga byoubu ni jouzu ni bouzu no e wo kaita.
The Buddhist priest skillfully drew a picture of a Buddhist priest on a folding screen.
赤巻き紙青巻き紙黄巻き紙
Aka makigami ao makigami ki makigami
Red scrolls, blue scrolls, yellow scrolls
蛙ぴょこぴょこ三ぴょこぴょこ合わせてぴょこぴょこ六ぴょこぴょこ
Kaeru pyoko pyoko mi pyoko pyoko awasete pyoko pyoko mu pyoko pyoko
The frog goes hippy-hop, hippy-hop 3 all together and hippy-hop hippy-hop 6 hippy-hop hippy-hop.
生麦生米生卵
Namamugi namagome namatamago
Raw wheat, raw rice, and raw eggs.
隣の客は良く柿食う客だ。
Tonari no kyaku wa yoku kaki kuu kyaku da.
My neighbor's guest is a guest that often eats persimmons.
李も桃、桃も桃、桃にも色々有る。
Sumomo mo momo, momo mo momo, momo nimo iroiro aru.
Plums are a kind of peach; peaches are also a kind of peach; there are many different kinds of peaches.
この猫ここの猫の子猫この子猫ね。
Kono neko koko no neko no koneko kono koneko ne.
This cat is the kitten of the cat here, this kitten!
裏庭には二羽庭には二羽鶏が居る。
Uraniwa niwa niwa niwa niwa niwa niwatori ga iru.
There are two chickens in the rear garden and two in the front garden.
鰐は庭には居ない。
Wani wa niwa niwa inai.
The crocodile is not in the garden.
貴社の記者が汽車で帰社した。
Kisha no kisha ga kisha de kisha shita.
Your company's reporter returned to the office by train.
隣の竹垣に竹立て掛けた。
Tonari no takegaki ni take tatekaketa.
I leaned the bamboo along my neighbor's bamboo fence.
母はハハハ母の母はハハハハと笑う。
Haha wa hahaha haha no haha wa hahahaha to warau.
My mothers laugh is 'haha' and my mothers mothers laugh is 'hahahaha.'
The kanji 子 can be read several different ways. Knowing that it's readings are ko, shi, and ne, read this:
子子の子子子子子子の子子子子
The answer is 'Neko no ko koneko, shishi no ko koshishi.
The child of a cat is a kitty; the child of a lion is a cub.
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