Английские скороговорки

English Tongue Twisters

Скороговорки на английском языке развивают беглость речи, правильную артикуляцию и улучшают произношение. Но для того чтобы получить реальный эффект, скороговорки надо проговаривать вслух, а не читать «про себя».

Некоторые скороговорки на этой странице совсем короткие и состоят всего из нескольких слов, другие наоборот, являют собой четверостишия или даже целые небольшие стихотворения. Попробуйте выучить несколько скороговорок наизусть, – это занимательно и очень полезно для изучения английского.

Перевод скороговорок дело неблагодарное, поэтому не старайтесь перевести их дословно, многие из них просто не имеют явного смысла и служат только для тренировки речевого аппарата.

Впрочем, мы все же рискнули сделать несколько переводов и озвучить некоторые скороговорки. Поверьте, это было совсем непросто 😀). Ссылку на них вы найдете внизу страницы. Тренируйтесь! Но сначала попробуйте прочитать и произнести самостоятельно хотя бы несколько скороговорочек на этой странице.

1. How many cookies could a good cook cook
   If a good cook could cook cookies?
   A good cook could cook as many cookies
   As a good cook who could cook cookies.
   
   
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. How much dew does a dewdrop drop
   If dewdrops do drop dew?
   They do drop, they do
   As do dewdrops drop
   If dewdrops do drop dew.
   
   
4. How many boards
   Could the Mongols hoard
   If the Mongol hordes got bored?
   From the comic Calvin & Hobbes, by Bill Waterson
   
   
5. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
   
   
6. Send toast to ten tense stout saints' ten tall tents.
   
   
7. Denise sees the fleece,
   Denise sees the fleas.
   At least Denise could sneeze
   And feed and freeze the fleas.
   
   
8. Coy knows pseudonoise codes.
   
   
9. Sheena leads, Sheila needs.
   
   
10. The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
    
    
11. 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.
    
    by Meaghan Desbiens
    
    
12. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
    
    
13. Seth at Sainsbury's sells thick socks.
    
    
14. You cuss, I cuss, we all cuss, for asparagus!
    From a Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson
    
    
15. Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins.
    
    
16. Clean clams crammed in clean cans.
    
    
17. Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
    
    
18. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.
    
    
19. Stupid superstition!
    
    
20. There was a fisherman named Fisher
    who fished for some fish in a fissure.
    Till a fish with a grin,
    pulled the fisherman in.
    Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.
    
    
21. World Wide Web or WWW
    
    
22. 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!
    
    By W.S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan from The Mikado
    
    
23. Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter, 'tis the peanut-butter picky people pick.
    
    
24. If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?
    
    
25. Seventy seven benevolent elephants harder than it seems
    
    
26. There those thousand thinkers were thinking how did the other three thieves go through.
    
    
27. Santa's Short Suit Shrunk name of a children's book
    
    
28. I was born on a pirate ship Hold your tongue while saying it.
    
    
29. I scream, you scream, we all scream for icecream!
    
    
30. Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses.
    
    
31. In 'ertford, 'ereford and 'ampshire, 'urricanes 'ardly Hever 'appen.
    
    А правильно это пишется вот так: In Hertford, Hereford, and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen.
    
    Из фильма "Моя Прекрасная Леди" ("My Fair Lady")
    
    
32. One-one was a race horse. Two-two was one too. One-one won one race. Two-two won one too.
    
    
33. Celibate celebrant, celibate celebrant, celibate celebrant, ...
    
    
34. Willy's real rear wheel
    
    
35. If Pickford's packers packed a packet of crisps would the packet of crisps that Pickford's packers packed survive for two and a half years?
    
    
36. Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards
    
    
37. Gobbling gorgoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.
    
    
38. Did Dick Pickens prick his pinkie pickling cheap cling peaches in an inch of Pinch or framing his famed French finch photos?
    
    
39. Pirates Private Property
    
    
40. What a terrible tongue twister,
    what a terrible tongue twister,
    what a terrible tongue twister...
    
    
41. When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write. ... continued here
    
    
42. A big black bug bit a big black dog on his big black nose!
    
    
43. Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month.
    
    
44. Ann and Andy's anniversary is in April.
    
    
45. Frogfeet, flippers, swimfins.
    
    
46. Hassock hassock, black spotted hassock. Black spot on a black back of a black spotted hassock.
    
    
47. 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.
    
    
48. How much pot, could a pot roast roast, if a pot roast could roast pot.
    
    
49. How much wood could Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck, if Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood? If Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood, how much wood could and would Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck? Chuck Woods' woodchuck would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as any woodchuck would, if a woodchuck could and would chuck wood.
    
    
50. Mary Mac's mother's making Mary Mac marry me.
    My mother's making me marry Mary Mac.
    Will I always be so Merry when Mary's taking care of me?
    Will I always be so merry when I marry Mary Mac?
    
    from a song by Carbon Leaf
    
    
51. Mr. Tongue Twister tried to train his tongue to twist and turn, and twit an twat, to learn the letter "T".
    
    
52. Pete's pa pete poked to the pea patch to pick a peck of peas for the poor pink pig in the pine hole pig-pen.
    
    
53. She saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa. But was she so sure she saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa?
    
    
54. Two tried and true tridents
    
    
55. Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye. If cows could fly I'd have a cow pie in my eye.
    
    
56. How many cans can a cannibal nibble
    if a cannibal can nibble cans?
    As many cans as a cannibal can nibble
    if a cannibal can nibble cans.
    
    
57. Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.
    
    
58. Four furious friends fought for the phone.
    
    
59. Plymouth sleuths thwart Luther's slithering.
    
    
60. Black background, brown background.
    
    
61. Why do you cry, Willy?
    Why do you cry?
    Why, Willy?
    Why, Willy?
    Why, Willy? Why?
    
    
62. Very well, very well, very well ...
    
    
63. Tie twine to three tree twigs.
    
    
64. Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.
    
    
65. Three short sword sheaths.
    
    
66. Caution: Wide Right Turns.
    
    
67. Rolling red wagons.
    
    
68. Green glass globes glow greenly.
    
    
69. She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore.
    
    
70. I stood sadly on the silver steps of Burgess's fish sauce shop, mimicking him hiccuping, and wildly welcoming him within.
    
    
71. Black back bat.
    
    
72. Fresh French fried fly fritters.
    
    
73. How many berries could a bare berry carry,
    if a bare berry could carry berries?
    Well they can't carry berries
    (which could make you very wary)
    but a bare berry carried is more scary!
    
    
74. Snap Crackel pop,
    Snap Crackel pop,
    Snap Crackel pop.
    
    
75. Six slimy snails sailed silently.
    
    
76. I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.
    
    
77. Seven slick slimey snakes slowly sliding southward.
    
    
78. I wish I were what I was when I wished I were what I am.
    
    
79. Red Buick, blue Buick.
    
    
80. Roofs of mushrooms rarely mush too much.
    
    
81. He threw three balls.
    
    
82. Singing Sammy sung songs on sinking sand.
    
    
83. We're real rear wheels.
    
    
84. Rhys watched Ross switch his Irish wristwatch for a Swiss wristwatch.
    
    
85. Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear.
    
    
86. On a lazy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser.
    
    
87. Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle.
    
    
88. How much caramel can a canny cannonball cram in a camel if a canny cannonball can cram caramel in a camel?