Everyone loves a good tongue twister, especially when getting to grips with a new language. I’ve had fun being challenged by Japanese coworkers at drinking parties to get my mouth around phrases like basu gasu bakuhatsu (“the bus gas explodes”) five times in a row, or aka-makigami ao-makigami ki-makigami (“red paper roll, blue paper roll, yellow paper roll”) on many occasions, but this Chinese tongue twister blows them all out of the water.
We’re not even going to begin to describe how this tongue twister in Mandarin Chinese works–it’s simply too difficult for our tiny minds to comprehend. Just check out the video and try to follow along with the subtitles!
And I thought saying “red lorry yellow lorry” three times fast was hard…
Source: Izismile
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