{"id":18905,"date":"2020-07-03T05:35:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T03:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/?p=18905"},"modified":"2021-03-18T18:31:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T17:31:24","slug":"italian-tongue-twisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/italian-tongue-twisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Tongue Twisters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tongue twisters, scioglilingua<\/em> in Italian, are always a fun and challenging way to improve your language skills.<\/p>\n

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As kids I am sure all of you challenged yourself and your friends to repeat some common English tongue twisters. It is a great way to practice both pronunciation as well as clear and speedy speech. Vi sfido<\/em>, I challenge you to say out loud the following scioglilingua!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Sopra la panca la capra campa, sotto la panca la capra crepa.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On the bench the goat lives, under the bench the goat dies.<\/p>\n

Trentatr\u00e9 trentini entrarono a Trento tutti e trentatr\u00e9 trotterellando.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thirty-three dwellers of Trent came into Trent, all thirty-three trotting and toddling.<\/p>\n

Tre tigri contro tre tigri. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Three tigers against three tigers.<\/p>\n

Quanti rami di rovere roderebbe un roditore se un roditore potesse rodere rami di rovere?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?<\/p>\n

Guglielmo coglie ghiaia dagli scogli scagliandola oltre gli scogli tra mille gorgogli.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Guglielmo grabs gravel from the rocks, hurling it over the rocks in a thousand gurgles.<\/p>\n

Chi ama chiama chi ama, chiamami tu che chi ami chiami. Chi amo chiamer\u00f2 se tu non chiami.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Whoever loves calls who they love, you call me since you call who you love. I\u2019ll call who I love if you don\u2019t call<\/p>\n

Apelle figlio di Apollo fece una palla di pelle di pollo.<\/em><\/strong>
\nTutti i pesci vennero a galla, per vedere la palla di pelle di pollo<\/em><\/strong>
\nfatta da Apelle, figlio di Apollo.<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apelle, son of Apollo, made a ball of chicken skin and all the fish rose to the surface to see the ball of chicken skin made by Apelle, son of Apollo.<\/p>\n

Check out this video of a native Italian speaker saying some of these scioglilingua\u00a0<\/em>to help practice your own pronunciation:<\/p>\n