Learning Mandarin Chinese Tongue-twister

Etonlan posted on Dec 14, 2010 at 07:33AM
Chinese Tongue-twister is very helpful for practicing Chinese pronunciation.

盆和瓶
桌上有个盆
盆里有个瓶
砰砰砰
是瓶碰盆
还是盆碰瓶
zhuō shàng yǒu gè pén,
pén lǐ yǒu gè píng,
pèng pèng pèng,
shì píng pèng pén,
hái shì pén pèng píng.

English translation:
Pan and table,
the desktop has a pan,
inside the pan there's a bottle,
bang, bang, bang.
Is it the bottle hitting the pan
or the pan hitting the bottle?

四是四
十是十
十四是十四
四十是四十
四十四是四十四
四十四只石狮子是死的

sì shì sì
shí shì shí
shí sì shì shí sì
sì shí shì sì shí
sì shí sì zhī shí shī zǐ shì sǐ de

English translation:
Four is four.
ten is ten,
fourteen is fourteen,
forty is forty,
forty four is forty four,
at forty four one of the stone lions died.

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over a year ago Nancy05 said…
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Chinese Tongue-twister is good to practise pronunciation. The good HNHSoft Chinese dictionary helps us to correct pronunciation.link
over a year ago adelamoore said…
Funny! Chinese learning will be an interesting thing~~
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over a year ago adelamoore said…
As in all languages, tongue twisters are a fun tool for improving one's anunciation.
chinese
鳥島是島﹐鳥島有鳥.
鳥島的鳥多得數不清了.
要想到鳥島﹐一定要愛鳥.
你不愛小鳥﹐就別到鳥島
translation
Bird Island is an island;
Bird Island has birds.
The birds on Bird Island are countless.
If you wish to go to Bird Island,
you must love birds.
If you don't love small birds,
don't go to Bird Island.
link will teach you how to repeat tougue twister with patient.
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