trabalenguas en inglés - tongue twisters

¿Os atrevéis con unos trabalenguas en inglés?

28 Abril 2020

Para hacer más ameno el confinamiento, os proponemos unos divertidos trabalenguas en inglés o Tongue Twisters.

Sí, los trabalenguas en castellano son más o menos difíciles y os provocan mil y una risas, pero estos en inglés están a otro nivel.

¿Que son los trabalenguas?

Los trabalenguas, o "Tongue Twisters" son frases o serie de palabras muy llamativas para el oído y que por su fonética cuesta mucho trabajo decir correctamente.

Es todo un desafío para los más pequeños (y no tan pequeños) de la casa y, para los estudiantes de inglés, son una divertida forma de trabajar uno o dos sonidos a la vez hasta lograr una pronunciación correcta.

¿Tienen utilidad en inglés?

¡Por supuesto! En inglés y en cualquier idioma. Los trabalenguas son internacionales y existen prácticamente en todas las culturas.

Estas frases endemoniadamente enrevesadas son muy útiles para mejorar la pronunciación de los sonidos más característicos de un determinado idioma. Eso es un punto a favor de cara al aprendizaje de idiomas, sobre todo de los fonemas, ya que aprender y repetir trabalenguas en inglés ayuda a la mejora de la pronunciación. Y de forma complementaria ejercita la memoria y favorece la fluidez de cara a la lectura en inglés.

Y lo más importante, ¡son muy divertidos!

Eso es fundamental, son muy divertidos y adictivos. Retaos entre vosotros a ver quién es el que mejor pronuncia los trabalenguas que os proponemos, las risas están aseguradas!!

(Nota: Desde Instituto Don't os podemos ayudar a pronunciarlos... ¡pero no garantizamos que no nos atasquemos!)

 

 

TONGUE TWISTERS 

Para comenzar, unos trabalenguas fáciles para los más pequeños:
  • Blue bluebird.
  • Red lorry, yellow lorry.
  • Daddy Draws Doors.
  • Three free throws.
  • The big bug bit the little beetle.
  • Friendly fleas and fireflies.
  • Fresh fried fish.
  • Specific Pacific.
  • Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread.
  • Betty’s big bunny bobbled by the blueberry bush.
  • Six sticky skeletons.
  • Green glass globes glow greenly.
  • Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?
  • If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
  • Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
 

Los más divertidos, para pequeños y grandes.

Subimos de nivel con unos trabalenguas muy divertidos para que retes a tus compañer@s.

  • 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
  • How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
    if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
    He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
    and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
    if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
  • I scream, you scream,
    We all scream for ice cream.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Yally Bally had a jolly golliwog. Feeling folly, Yally Bally bought his jolly golli’ a dollie made of holly! The golli’, feeling jolly, named the holly dollie, Polly. So Yally Bally’s jolly golli’s holly dollie Polly’s also jolly!
  • Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye.
    If cows could fly I’d have a cow pie in my eye.
  • 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.
  • 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!
  • I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.

Para aprender la pronunciación correcta de “s”, “r”, “l” and “th”.

Tongue twisters with “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)

Tongue twisters with “r” and “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.

Tongue twisters with “th”

  • The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
  • 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.
  • 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 thousand feathers on a thrushes throat.

Extremos, si los pronuncias bien 10 veces seguidas serás supercalifragilisticoespialidoso.

Estos trabalenguas son solo para profesionales ya que su grado de dificultad es considerable, disfrútalos si puedes.

  • 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!
  • 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?
  • Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.
  • Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.
  • Send toast to ten tense stout saints’ ten tall tents.
 
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