Fun Japanese Tongue-Twisters

namamugi namagome namatamago

生麦生米生卵

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raw wheat, raw rice, raw egg

shinshun shanson shō

新春シャンソン・ショー

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a New Year's Chanson show

aomakigami akamakigami kimakigami

青巻紙赤巻紙黄巻紙

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Red scroll, blue scroll, yellow scroll

tonari no kyaku wa yoku kaki kū kyaku da

隣の客はよく柿食う客だ

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The customer next to me often eats persimmons.

Take-ya no takeyabuni take tatekaketa no wa, take tatekaketakatta kara, take tatekaketa

竹屋の竹薮に竹立てかけたのは，竹立てかけたかったから，竹立てかけた

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The reason I have leaned this bamboo against a bamboo grove at the bamboo shop is that I just wanted to lean a bamboo against it!

bōzu ga byōbu ni bōzu no e o jōzu ni kaita

坊主が屏風に坊主の絵を上手に書いた

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The monk drew a good picture of another monk on the folding screen.

sumomo mo momo mo momo no uchi sumomo mo momo mo mō ureta

すももも桃も桃のうち　すももも桃ももううれた

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Both Japanese plums and peaches are kinds of peaches, both Japanese plums and peacesh have been already ripe.

uraniwa ni wa ni-wa niwa ni wa ni-wa niwatori ga iru

裏庭には二羽　庭には二羽　ニワトリがいる

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There are two chickens in the back yard and two in the front yard.