CURIOSITY

Tongue-twister
Palindromes


According to several sites and books,
i made a classification from the easiest to the hardest language to learn (for portuguese speakers).


1 – Spanish 11 – German
2 – Italian 12 – Bulgarian
3 – French 13 – Hungarian
4 – Indonesian 14 – Czech
5 – Romanian 15 – Russian
6 – English 16 – Hindi
7 – Dutch 17 – Hebrew
8 – Greek 18 – Arabic
9 – Turkish 19 – Japanese
10 – Norwegian 20 – Chinese



Tongue-twisters:
Tongue twisters are hard or curious sentences  to pronunciate. Look the examples.
Let's try:

In portuguese:

Três tigres tristes para três pratos de trigo. Traga três pratos de trigo para três tigres tristes.

Debaixo da pia tem um pinto, enquanto a pia pinga, o pinto pia, quanto mais a pia pinga, mais o pinto pia.

Se o Pedro é petro, o peito do Pedro é preto e o peito do pé do Pedro é preto.

A Xuxa acha a Sasha chata. A Sacha acha a Xuxa chata

In english:

If you can't can any candy can, how many candy cans can a candy canner can if he can can candy cans ?

The big black bug bit the big black bear, but the big black bear bit the big black bug back!

There those thousand thinkers were thinking where did those other three thieves go through.

In french:

Trois tortues trottaient sur un trottoir très étroit.

Un chasseur qui chassait fit sécher ses chaussettes sur une souche sèche.

In spanish:

Jorge el cerrajero vende cerrajes en la cerrajería.

Pepe Pecas pica papas con un pico. Con un pico pica papas Pepe Pecas.

In german:

Specht, Spatz, Storch und Sperber sprangen spornstreichs schrillen Schreis den steilen Steg hinunter!

Gudruns Truthuhn tut gut ruhn, gut ruhn tut Gudruns Truthuhn!



Palindromes:
Palindromes are words or sentences pronunciated identically if you read it from right to left or from left to right.
Look:


In portuguese:

Socorram me! Subi no onibus em Marrocos!
Anotaram a data da maratona.
A mala nada na lama
Rir: o breve verbo rir.

In english:

Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
Busy van notes radar:  a wastrel, alert, saw a radar set on navy sub.
Live dirt up a side track carted is a putrid evil.
No misses ordered roses, Simon.
Was it a car or a cat I saw?

In french:
Tu l'as trop ecrase cesar ce port salut.

In romanian:

Ele fac cafele

In spanish:

Dabale arroz a la zorra el abad
Atale demoniaco Cain o me delata.
Adan a donde va ved no da nada.



 

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