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AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)
Sat Dec 29, 2012, 08:13 PM Dec 2012

Japanese tongue twisters..

Bózu ga byóbu ni józu ni bózu no é o kaita. (The monk drew a good picture of another monk on the folding screen)

Hyoko pyoko pyoko mi pyoko pyoko Awasete pyoko pyoko mu pyoko pyoko. (Take two sets of three chicken cackles add them together and they make six chicken cackles.)

Kono Take o Kono Takegaki ni Tatekaketa no wa, Take o Tatekaketakattakara Tatekaketa no desu. ( The reason I have leaned this bamboo aginst this bamboo fence is that I just wanted to lean a bamboo aginst it!)

Kono ko ni tokonatsu no kokonatsu kokonotsu, ano ko nimo tokonatsu no kokonatsu kokonotsu. ( I give nine coconuts from a tropical island to this child, and I give nine coconuts from a tropical island to that child, too.)

more...http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/ja.htm#T100740

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Japanese tongue twisters.. (Original Post) AsahinaKimi Dec 2012 OP
Those are great! Let's see if I can add a few... Bonobo Dec 2012 #1
Sugoi! AsahinaKimi Dec 2012 #2

Bonobo

(29,257 posts)
1. Those are great! Let's see if I can add a few...
Sun Dec 30, 2012, 03:34 AM
Dec 2012

服作る夫婦 靴作る夫婦 古服売る夫婦 古靴売る夫婦
  (ふくつくるふうふくつつくるふうふふるふくうるふうふふるくつうるふうふ)
fuku tsukuru fuufu kutsu tsukuru fuufu furufuku uru fuufu furukutsu uru fuufu
(man and wife who make clothes, man and wife who make shoes, man and wife who sell old clothes, man and wife who sell old shoes)

ブス、バスガイド。バス、ガス爆発。
  (ブスバスガイドバスガスばくはつ)
busu basugaido basu bakuhatsu
(ugly bus guide, bus gas explosion)

AND... a GREAT one for us Kansa-ben speakers!

A:チャウチャウちゃうんちゃうん?
  B:ちゃう、ちゃう!
  ★標準語訳★
   A:(あれは)チャウチャウ犬じゃぁないんじゃない(ですか)?
   B:違う、違う!

IN KANSAI DIALECT;
A: chow chow chau chau?
B: Chau chau

ENGLISH
A: That's not a Chow-chow, is it?
B: No, it's not

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