Tongue Twisters from around the World!

English:
Betty Botter bought a bit of butter.
The butter Betty Botter bought was a bit bitter.
And made her batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter makes better batter.
So, Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.
Making Betty Botter’s bitter batter better.

German:
Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid und Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut.

(Wedding dress stays wedding dress and blue cabbage stays blue cabbage.)

Spanish:
Tres tristes tigres tragaban trigo en un trigal en tres tristes trastos tragaban trigo tres tristes tigres.

(Three sad tigers swallowed wheat in a wheat field on three sad dishes, on three sad dishes swallowed wheat three sad tigers.)

Turkish:
Bu yoğurdu sarımsaklasak da mı saklasak, sarimsaklamasak da mı saklasak?

(Should we store this yogurt with garlic or without garlic?)

Hungarian:
Az ibafai papnak fapipája van, ezért az ibafai papi pipa papi fapipa.

(The Ibafa priest has wooden pipe, so the Ibafa priest pipe is a priest wooden pipe.)

Danish:
Far får får får, nej får får ikke får, får får lam.

(Translated loosely: Dad, does a sheep get sheep, no a sheep does not get sheep, a sheep gets a lamb)

Russian:
Ехал грека через реку, видит Грека в реке рак. Cунул Грека руку в реку рак зa руку Грека цап
Yekhal Greka cherez reku, vidit Greka v reke rak. Sunul Greka ruku v reku, rak za ruku Greku tsap.

(A Greek was riding across the river and saw that there was a crayfish in the river. The Greek put his hand in the river and the crayfish it his hand.)

French:
Un chasseur sachant chasser doit savoir chasser sans son chien.

(A hunter who knows how to hunt, knows how to hunt without his dog.)

Portuguese:
O rato roeu a rolha da garrafa de rum do rei da Rússia.

(The rat nibbled the cork of the bottle of rum of the king of Russia).

Italian:
Sopra la panca la capra campa, sotto la panca la capra crepa.

(On the bench the goat lives, under the bench the goat dies.)

Swedish:
Sju sjösjuka sjömän sköttes
av sju sjungande sjuksköterskor
på sjukhusskeppet i Shanghai

(Seven seasick sailors were taken care of by seven singing nurses on the hospital ship in Shanghai.)

Icelandic:
Barbara Ara bar Ara Araba bara rabarbara.

(Barbara, daughter of Ari only gave Ari the Arab rhubarb.)

Afrikaans:
Die Koppokkie pik op die kappokkopietjie se koppietjie.

(The bantam (a kind of chicken) picks up the baby bantam’s head.)

Korean: 
내가 그린 기린 그림은 잘 그린 기린 그림이고 니가 그린 기린 그림은 못그린 기린 그림이다.
naega geulin gilin geulim-eun jal geulin gilin geulim-igo niga geulin gilin geulim-eun mosgeulin gilin geulim-ida.

(translated loosely: The giraffe picture I drew is a well-drawn giraffe picture, and the giraffe picture that you drew is not a well-drawn giraffe picture.)

Dutch:
De koetsier poetst de postkoets met postkoetspoets.

(The coachman polishes the stagecoach with a stagecoach polish.)

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