Ah, tongue twisters. Those gnarly, little phrases that  trip up even native speakers of a language. Imagine how tricky they are for the non-native speakers! Karina, Sruthi, and I decided to find tongue twisters in English, French, Spanish and German and to then have everyone at Brainscape try a few while we recoreded them.

Some of us did not have much trouble with e the tongue twisters. Some of us got progressively worse the more times we repeated them. Some of us would put on strange accents and voice inflections to make it through. The hardest for me, by far, were the german twisters, which had me sounding like a choking seal pup at times (watch the video of Karina saying them properly below).

We acquired too much good footage to put all of it on YouTube, so we decided to cut it up into little snippits for you to enjoy. Enjoy!

Here’s Mike trying his best to get through Peter Piper:

Next up is Andrew with his rendition of a particularly difficult French tongue twister:

I (Amanda) can’t even make it through a simple Spanish tongue twister :’(

Oh, Tom–you’re so close to saying something that makes sense about a girl on a sea shore:

And, finally, I leave you with Karina, native German speaker:

Thanks, Karina, for putting these clips together!