If you wish to add laughter into your French schedule then tongue twisters are your best source.
Prepare yourself to do the impossible with funny tongue twisters to improve your French pronunciation and sounds.
Les virelangues françaises (French tongue twisters)
Les virelangues helps us to incorporate the French accents and differentiate the same sounds attached to different words.
At times, tongue twisters don’t have a significant meaning or a pattern as it is all about finding the rhyming words to get the right sounds.
The following 14 tongue twisters ascend from the easiest to the complex phrases to strengthen your understanding.
- Dans ta tente ta tante t’attend.
Meaning: Your aunt is waiting for you in the tent. - Son chat chante sa chanson.
Meaning: His cat sings his song. - Poisson sans boisson est poison.
Meaning: Fish without drink is poison. - La nuit réduit le bruit de la pluie sur les tuiles.
Meaning: Night reduces the sound of rain on the tiles. - Trois tortues trottaient sur un trottoir très étroit.
Meaning: Three turtles were walking on a very narrow sidewalk. - Un chasseur sachant chasser chasse sans son chien.
Meaning: A hunter knows how to hunt without his dog. - Charline chante une chanson chaque dimanche dans la chambre du château.
Meaning: Charline sings a song every Sunday in the castle room. - Les vers verts levèrent le verre vert vers le ver vert.
Meaning: The green worms raised the green glass to the green worm. - Je suis ce que je suis et si je suis ce que je suis qu’ est-ce que je suis?
Meaning: I am what I am and if I am what I am what am I? - Si mon tonton tond ton tonton, ton tonton sera tondue.
Meaning: If my uncle shaves your uncle, your uncle will be shaved. - Ces six saucissons-ci sont si secs qu’on ne sait si c’en sont.
Meaning: These six sausages here are so dry that we don’t know if they are. - Les chaussettes de l’archi-duchesse, sont-elles sèches ou archi-sèches ?
Meaning: The Archduchess’s socks, are they dry or archi-dry? - Si six scies scient six cyprès, six cents scies scient six cent cyprès
Meaning: If six saws saw six cypresses, six hundred saws saw six hundred cypresses. - Pauvre petit pêcheur, prends patience pour pouvoir prendre plusieurs petits poissons.
Meaning: Poor little fisherman, be patient to catch several small fish.
Smile as you twist along
I can’t find anyone who hasn’t carried a smile while trying out a tongue twister. We love to see how our tongue gets twisted, words get swallowed and mixed up with each trial.
It can be difficult and challenging at first but it all works out with practice and repetition. So, take your time and challenge yourself to do more as you crack each tongue twister.
