Helpful Tongue Twisters

Tongue twisters are not just fun to do, they also help us train our tongue in pronouncing  (English) sounds correctly.   

                                                                                    To practice the sounds 
                                                                                     of  /p/   and   /e/  : 

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
How many pecks of pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick? 
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?"

To practice the sounds of  /r/ : 

Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared

wrongly in a rural brewery.

To practice the contrasting sounds  of  /l/  and  /r/ : 

Laura and Larry rarely lull their rural roosters to sleep.

There are free fleas for all the loyal royalty.

Sri Lankans are really leery of Landry's rules

To practice the contrasting sounds of  of  /b/ and /v/ : 

Betty loves the velvet vest best.

To practice the sounds of  /v/: 

Vincent vowed vengeance very vehemently. 
Vincent the very vivacious vacuuming vampire visited Victor von Viking the vegetarian veterinarian vacationing in Valentine Valley.
Seventy-seven benevolent elephants. 

To practice the sounds of  /a/ :

Eighty eight great agents paid for the paper airplanes.

 To practice the sounds of  voiceless /th/  :

The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.

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.

Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.

To practice the contrasting sounds  of   /s/  and  the voiceless /th/ :

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?

To practice the contrasting sounds of  of  /s/ and /sh/

She sells sea shells by the seashore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells."

To practice the contrasting sounds of  /sh/ and /ch/

If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?

To practice contrasts of the vowel sounds : 

Betty Botter bought some butter but she said the butter's bitter. If I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter. So, she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter and she put it in her batter and her batter was not bitter. So 'twas good that Betty Botter bought some better butter."

To practice the contrasting sounds  of  /v/ and /w/ :

Very well, very well, very well.

I want to go to Vietnam for winter vacation.

This veal is very Western.

There are no white vegetarians in western Venezuela.

To practice quick shift of sounds : 

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze.
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

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