If you are learning French tongue twisters or virelangues are perfect to practice your pronunciation. These 10 popular tongue twisters will surely give you a hard time and make you laugh at loud!
10 Difficult Tongue Twisters to Have Fun With
Ces Basques se passent ce casque et ce masque jusqu’à ce que ce masque et ce casque se cassent
(These Basques pass this helmet and this mask until this mask and this helmet break)
Un chasseur sachant chasser sait chasser sans son chien de chasse
(A hunter who knows how to hunt knows how to hunt without his hunting dog)
Un généreux déjeuner régénérerait des généraux dégénérés
(A generous breakfast would regenerate degenerate generals)
Si six scies scient six cyprès, six cents scies scient six cent cypress
(If six saws saw six cypresses, six hundred saws saw six hundred cypresses)
Le cricri de la crique crie son cri cru et critique car il craint que l’escroc ne le croque et ne le craque
(The creek cricri shouts his raw and critical cry because he fears that the crook will bite him and crack him)
Les chaussettes de l’archiduchesse sont-elles sèches, archi-sèches?
(Are the Archduchess’ socks dry, very dry)
Fait faire à Fabien fourbe et fautif force farces fausses et fantasques
(Making Fabien cunning and guilty, forces wrong and fantastical jokes.)
“Tonton, ton thé t’a-t-il ôté ta toux,” disait la tortue au tatou. “Mais pas du tout,” dit le tatou. “Je tousse tant que l’on m’entend de Tahiti à Tombouctou.”
(“Uncle, your tea has cured your cough,” said the tortoise to the armadillo.””Not at all,” said the armadillo. “I cough so much that you can hear me from Tahiti to Timbuktu.”)
L’Arabe Ali est mort au lit. Moralité : Maure Ali, t’es mort alité
(The Arab Ali died in bed. Morality: Maure Ali, you died in bed)
Un pâtissier qui pâtissait chez un tapissier qui tapissait, demanda un jour au tapissier qui tapissait : vaut-il mieux pâtisser chez un tapissier qui tapisse ou tapisser chez un pâtissier qui pâtisse?
(A pastry cook who suffered at a tapestry cook’s, asked the tapestry cook one day: is it better to suffer at a tapestry cook’s or tapestry cook’s, who suffers?)
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