正確に言うのが難しい文章や、一連の言葉は英語で"tongue twister（早口言葉）"と言います。子供たちは早口言葉が好きで、友達同士で何度も繰り返して競い合います。英語を学ぶ人にとっては、1-2音ずつ、正確に発音する楽しい方法です。最初は、早口言葉をゆっくりと言い、徐々に速度を増します。上手く言えるようになったら、一度に2-3回続けて言ってみましょう。
| 早口言葉 | 音/言葉の強調 | （ネイティブスピーカーにとっての）難易度 |
|---|---|---|
| How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? | wood & chuck (意味：投げる) | 易しい |
| Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick? | p | 易しい |
| Can you can a can as a canner can can a can? | can | 易しい |
| Frivolously fanciful Fannie fried fresh fish furiously | f | 易しい |
| To begin to toboggan first buy a toboggan, but don't buy too big a toboggan. Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan to buy to begin to toboggan. | b & t | 易しい |
| She saw Sharif's shoes on the sofa. But was she so sure those were Sharif's shoes she saw? | s & sh | 易しい |
| Give papa a cup of proper coffe in a copper coffe cup. | c & p | 普通 |
| Black background, brown background | b | 普通 |
| Seventy-seven benevolent elephants | l & v | 普通 |
| The chic Sikh's sixty-sixth sheep is sick | s & k | 普通 |
| A loyal warrior will rarely worry why we rule. | l & r | 普通 |
| A pessemistic pest exists amidst us. | s & st | 普通 |
| Drew Dodd's dad's dog's dead. | d | 普通 |
| Which witch switched the Swiss wristwatches? | w, s & ch | 難しい |
| She sells seashells by the seashore. | s & sh | 難しい |