100 Tongbrekers om Perfecte Uitspraak in het Engels te Oefenen

Tongbrekers van allerlei soorten en maten hebben mensen decennialang geholpen om hun uitspraak in het Engels te perfectioneren. Hoewel ze niet veel zin hebben, zijn tongbrekers zeer nuttig in spraaktherapie vanwege hun herhaalde geluiden. Om deze reden worden ze gebruikt door acteurs, politici en zelfs nieuwsankers voordat ze live gaan. Eigenlijk werkt een tongbreker als een fysieke oefening: hoe meer je oefent, hoe beter je uitspraak zal zijn.

Volgens het Cambridge Dictionary is een tongbreker “een zin of uitdrukking die bedoeld is om moeilijk uit te spreken te zijn, vooral wanneer deze snel en vaak herhaald wordt”. Als ook jij je Engelse uitspraak wilt verbeteren of perfectioneren, duik dan in de volledige lijst met Engelse tongbrekers hieronder: van korte tongbrekers tot tongbrekers voor kinderen en moeilijke tongbrekers om je uitspraak verder uit te dagen.

Korte tongbrekers

Voordat je de moeilijke Engelse tongbrekers voor kampioenen die snel praten probeert, laten we je spraakspieren opwarmen met enkele korte en redelijk eenvoudige tongbrekers voor beginners.

1. Eleven benevolent elephants.
2. She sees cheese.
3. Six sticky skeletons.
4. Truly rural.
5. Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.
6. Which witch is which?
7. Willy’s real rear wheel.
8. Send toast to ten tense stout saints’ ten tall tents.
9. Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards.
10. Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle.
11. A happy hippo hopped and hiccupped.
12. English can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.
13. Cooks cook cupcakes quickly.
14. Really leery, rarely Larry.
15. Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.
16. A snake sneaks to seek a snack.
17. I like New York, unique New York, I like unique New York.
18. Six Czech cricket critics.
19. Babbling baby boys blurted boldly.
20. Which wrist watches are Swiss wrist watches?
21. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
22. An ape hates grape cakes.
23. Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread.
24. I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen.
25. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
26. Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.
27. She sells seashells by the seashore.
28. Gobbling gargoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.
29. Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
30. Billy Bob blabbered boldly.

1. All I want is a proper cup of coffee.

Made in a proper copper coffee pot.

You can believe it or not.

But I want a cup of coffee from a proper copper pot.

Tin coffee pots or iron coffee pots, they’re not good to me.

If I can’t have a proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot, I’ll just have tea.

All I want is a proper cup of coffee.

Made in a proper copper coffee pot.

You can believe it or not.

But I want a cup of coffee from a proper copper pot.

 

2.To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,

In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,

Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,

From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!

To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,

In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,

Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,

From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!

A dull, dark dock, a life-long lock,

A short, sharp shock, a big black block!

To sit in solemn silence in a pestilential prison,

And awaiting the sensation

From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!

 

3.Betty Botter bought some butter but, said she, the butter’s bitter.

If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter.

But a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better.

So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter,

put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter batter better.

So ‘t was better Betty Botter bought some better butter.

 

4.I’m a mother pheasant plucker, I pluck mother pheasants.

I’m the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker to ever pluck a mother pheasant.

I’m not the pheasant plucker I’m the pheasant plucker’s wife, I’ve been plucking Mother pheasants my whole pheasant plucking life.

I’m not the pheasant plucker I’m the pheasant plucker’s mate, I’m only plucking Pheasants ’cause the pheasant plucker’s late.

 

5.A tree-toad loved a she-toad

Who lived up in a tree.

He was a two-toed tree-toad,

But a three-toed toad was she.

The two-toed tree-toad tried to win

The three-toed she-toad’s heart,

For the two-toed tree-toad loved the ground

That the three-toed tree-toad trod.

But the two-toed tree-toad tried in vain;

He couldn’t please her whim.

From her tree-toad bower,

With her three-toed power,

The she-toad vetoed him.

1.Mr. See owned a saw.

And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw.

Now, See’s saw sawed Soar’s seesaw

Before Soar saw See,

Which made Soar sore.

Had Soar seen See’s saw

Before See sawed Soar’s seesaw,

See’s saw would not have sawed

Soar’s seesaw.

So See’s saw sawed Soar’s seesaw.

But it was sad to see Soar so sore

just because See’s saw sawed

Soar’s seesaw.

 

2.Ned Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not.

So it is better to be Shott than Nott.

Some say Nott was not shot.

But Shott says he shot Nott.

Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot,

Or Nott was shot.

If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot.

But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott,

Then Shott was shot, not Nott.

However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott, but Nott.

 

3.Theophilus Thistle, the Thistle Sifter,

Sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles.

If Theophilus Thistle, the Thistle Sifter,

Sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles,

Where is the sieve of un-sifted thistles

Theophilus Thistle, the Thistle Sifter, sifted?

 

4.A flea and a fly in a flue

Said the fly “Oh what should we do”

Said the flea” Let us fly

Said the fly “Let us flee”

So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

 

5.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.

Moeilijke tongbrekers

Terwijl we bezig zijn, kunnen we niet anders dan ons afvragen wat de moeilijkste tongbreker die er bestaat is. In tegenstelling tot wat vaak wordt gedacht, is het niet “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”.

Op een gegeven moment hield “the sixth sick sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick” het Guinness World Record voor de moeilijkste tongbreker, maar aangezien de categorie niet meer bestaat, is de titel waarschijnlijk ingetrokken.

Geen zorgen! We raken echter niet zonder opties. In 2013 concludeerden onderzoekers van MIT dat “pad kid poured curd pulled cod” de moeilijkste tongbreker ter wereld is. Sterker nog, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, een psycholoog van MIT, zegt dat je een prijs krijgt als het je lukt om dat 10 keer snel te zeggen. En dan hebben we het over supersnelle-Eminem-snelheid!

• Pad kid poured curd pulled cod.
• If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
• Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons — balancing them badly.
• Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
• Can you can a canned can into an un-canned can like a canner can can a canned can into an un-canned can?
• The sixth sick sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick.
• Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.
• Ingenious iguanas improvising an intricate impromptu on impossibly-impractical instruments.
• I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop
• Where she shines, she sits, and where she sits, she shines.
• When a doctor doctors a doctor, does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?
• These thousand tricky tongue twisters trip thrillingly off the tongue.
• Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.
• Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons—balancing them badly.
• A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
• Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.
• He threw three free throws.
• Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear.
• Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone.
• Chop shops stock chops.

Tongbrekers voor kinderen

Tongbrekers voor kinderen zijn allemaal zoet, leuk en spelletjes totdat je de snelheid verhoogt. Als je niet genoeg hebt geoefend, kunnen zelfs zij je tong in een Gordiaanse knoop leggen. Letterlijk.

Pak een jongere broer, zus of je eigen kind en laten we zien wie de uitdaging wint!

1. Blue bluebird.
2. Four fine fresh fish for you.
3. Daddy Draws Doors.
4. Three free throws.
5. The big bug bit the little beetle.
6. Friendly fleas and fireflies.
7. Fresh fried fish.
8. The raging ram runs ’round rugged Ricky to hit Mickey.
9. Specific Pacific.
10. Tommy tossed his twelfth tooth when it turned two times.
11. Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread.
12. Betty’s big bunny bobbled by the blueberry bush.
13. Six sticky skeletons.
14. Green glass globes glow greenly.
15. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?
16. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
17. Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
18. I scream, you scream,
19. We all scream for ice cream.
20. Bouncing bed bugs borrowed blankets.
21. Perspicacious Polly Perkins purchased Peter’s product
22. And peddled pickles to produce a pretty profit!

Grappige tongbrekers

Onze all-time favoriet: grappige tongbrekers! Je zou denken dat alle tongbrekers grappig zijn, maar niets is te vergelijken met deze exclusieve selectie. Sterker nog, je hebt deze waarschijnlijk al eerder gehoord. Iedereen noemt ze “grappig” om een reden!

Vergeet niet om je vrienden uit te dagen!

1.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 Peter Piper picked.

 

2.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 Peter Piper picked.

 

3.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.

 

4.Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye.

If cows could fly I’d have a cow pie in my eye.

 

5.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.

 

6.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 with your mouth full!

 

7.I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.

 

8.Luke Luck likes lakes.

Luke’s duck likes lakes.

Luke Luck licks lakes.

Luck’s duck licks lakes.

Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.

Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

 

Tongbrekers met S, R, L en TH

Zoals we al hebben vermeld, kunnen tongbrekers uiterst nuttig zijn voor spraaktherapie. Als je problemen hebt met het uitspreken van bepaalde klanken zoals “s,” “r,” “l,” of “th,” kan oefenen met de juiste tongbrekers je spraakbelemmering verbeteren. Hier zijn een paar voorbeelden:

Tongbrekers met S

• She sells seashells by the seashore of Seychelles.
• “Surely Sylvia swims!” shrieked Sammy surprised. “Someone should show Sylvia some strokes so she shall not sink.”
• Selfish shellfish. (repeat it several times)

Tongbrekers met R en L

• Red lorry, yellow lorry.
• A really leery Larry rolls readily to the road.
• Rory’s lawn rake rarely rakes really right.
• Lucky rabbits like to cause a ruckus.
• I looked right at Larry’s rally and left in a hurry.
• Round and round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.

Tongtwisten met TH

1. The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Thirty-three thousand feathers on a thrushes throat.

De wereldberoemde tongbreker van Peter Piper verscheen voor het eerst in druk ergens in 1813, in een boek genaamd “Praktische Principes van Peter Piper voor Duidelijke en Perfecte Uitspraak”, hoewel wordt aangenomen dat het tegen die tijd al in algemeen gebruik was. Snelle vooruitgang naar vandaag: mensen over de hele wereld vinden het nog steeds geweldig om te lachen en hun tongen in de knoop te leggen met deze rijm en vele andere. En nu jij ook.

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