Chinese Tongue-Twisters

Cantonese Tongue-Twisters

• 酩酊兵丁停定聽
  The drunken soldier stopped and listened.

• 富婦扶夫赴傅府
  A rich woman carried her husband to Fu's mansion.

• 入實驗室襟緊急掣，掘雞掘骨掘雞骨
  Go to the laboratory and press the emergency button, dig for the chicken, dig for the bone, and dig for the chicken bone.

Mandarin Tongue-Twisters

• 西施死時四十四
  Xi Shi (a famous woman) died at age 44.

• 四是四，十是十，十四是十四，四十是四十。你不要把十四说成四十，四十说成十四。
  Four is four, ten is ten, fourteen is fourteen, forty is forty. You shouldn't say 'fourteen' as 'forty' or 'forty' as 'fourteen'.

• 四十四头死的石狮子
  (Forty-four dead stone lions)

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