100 Spanish Tongue Twisters from Easy to Hard

My mum spoils me, and I spoil my mum.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Easy · m and clear vowels

Pronunciation: Keep each a and i steady; avoid turning the final vowel into an English glide.

Jaime lowers the cage.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Easy · j and soft b

Pronunciation: J is a back-of-mouth friction sound in the Spain accent; the b between vowels is gentle.

Shrimp, caramel, shrimp, caramel.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Easy · r and l

Pronunciation: Use a single tongue tap for the r between vowels; keep the final l in caramelo clear.

Little Pablo hammered in a little nail. A little nail he hammered in. Which little nail did he hammer in?

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Easy · cl and bl

Pronunciation: Keep the two consonants together in cla and bla; the written accent in clavó marks final stress.

Because I eat little coconut, I buy little coconut.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Easy · c and p

Pronunciation: All c letters here have the k sound. Avoid aspirating p as strongly as in English.

From hair to elbow and elbow to hair, elbow to hair and hair to elbow.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Easy · l and d transitions

Pronunciation: This is a coordination warm-up; keep d light between vowels and l clear.

How do you want me to love you if the one I want to love me does not love me as I want?

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Intermediate · r and qu

Pronunciation: Qu before e is k; the u is silent. Keep each single r as a tap.

I ate parsley for lunch and supper. When will I un-parsley myself?

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Hard · r, j and long word stress

Pronunciation: The last verb is playful word-building. Break it into syllables before rejoining it.

A dog breaks the branch of the tree.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Easy · short consonant and vowel contrasts

Pronunciation: Perro has a trill; rama begins with one. The r in árbol is a short syllable-final sound, not an English r.

R with R: cigar; R with R: barrel. The carts run quickly, loaded with sugar from the railway.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Intermediate · rr and initial r

Pronunciation: Relax the tongue tip and let air create the vibration; do not substitute an English r.

A donkey ate watercress and a dog stole it. The donkey brayed and the dog fell in mud.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Intermediate · rr and b

Pronunciation: Contrast burro, berros and barro by vowel while keeping the trill steady.

Three sad tigers were swallowing wheat in a wheat field.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Intermediate · tr, gr and r

Pronunciation: Say tres-tris-tes in clear beats before adding tigres. Do not insert a vowel between t and r.

Three sad log cutters cut thirty-three lengths of logs and tripled their work, tripling their task of cutting logs and more logs.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: Tr is a tight cluster, without an extra vowel. In a Spain pronunciation, the z in trozaron differs from s in tres.

The greedy dragon swallowed coal and became potbellied. The greedy dragon became potbellied from swallowing coal. Oh, what a greedy dragon!

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: Keep dr and tr as tight clusters and mark the final stress of dragón, tragón, carbón and panzón.

The wine came, but the wine did not come as wine: it came as vinegar.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Intermediate · b/v and repeated vino

Pronunciation: Let b/v soften between vowels. The joke uses vino as both wine and came.

Juan had a tube; it broke, so he had to buy another just like it.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Intermediate · b/v and t

Pronunciation: Tubo and tuvo sound the same in standard Spanish. Keep the rhythm rather than inventing a v contrast.

What a colossal cabbage that eccentric put in that place! What a colossal cabbage he put there!

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Intermediate · l and c

Pronunciation: Keep the final l of col and local audible. Every c in this line has the k sound.

My balcony boards are poorly fitted. Call the board fitter to undo and refit them better.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Hard · l, ll and bl

Pronunciation: The ll in entablillar is y-like in the recording accent. Keep it different from the l in balcón.

A successive sequence of events happens successively as time passes.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Intermediate · s and c before e/i

Pronunciation: In this accent, su-ce-sión contrasts s with the th sound of c; Latin American seseo also gives a valid reading.

If the servant serving you does not serve as a servant, what use is being served by a servant who does not serve?

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Hard · s and r

Pronunciation: The language is old-fashioned social vocabulary. Keep sirve and sierva distinct by their vowels.

In my basket are cherries, cherries, sweet cherries, red cherries, sweet cherries, cherries, cherries; in my basket are cherries.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: In the selected Spain pronunciation, c before e and z share a sound different from s. Keep cesta distinct from cerezas.

The yellowish seafood is very delicious!

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Easy · short consonant and vowel contrasts

Pronunciation: Amarillescos is a playful form of yellowish. Keep the s in mariscos and deliciosos audible.

Do you not swim at all? No, I did not bring a swimsuit.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Easy · n and tr

Pronunciation: Nada means both swims and nothing; traje is both I brought and suit.

If the snail had a face as the snail has, it would be face, it would be cabbage, it would be a snail with a face.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Intermediate · c, r and l

Pronunciation: The line plays with cara, col and caracol; preserve each vowel even when the meaning is silly.

When I say “I say,” I say Diego. When I say Diego, I say “I say.”

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Intermediate · d and g

Pronunciation: The middle d and g soften between vowels; keep ie in Diego as one diphthong.

Freckled Pepe chops potatoes with a pick. With a pick, freckled Pepe chops potatoes.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Easy · p and c

Pronunciation: Papas and Pecas contrast vowels; keep p crisp without a large puff of air.

Pancha irons with four irons. With how many irons does Pancha iron?

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Intermediate · pl and ch

Pronunciation: Keep pl together, then release ch as one sound. Pancha lacks the l in plancha.

Juan gathers reeds beside the ditch.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Easy · j and n

Pronunciation: The tongue stays back for j; n changes slightly before the next consonant.

Little by little Paquito packs a few little glasses into a few parcels.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Intermediate · p and qu

Pronunciation: The u in qui and que is silent; keep the tiny diminutive syllables audible.

The sky is covered in bricks. Who will unbrick it? Whoever unbricks it will be a good unbricker.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Hard · dr, ll and long words

Pronunciation: The long verbs are deliberate playful formations. Keep stress on the written accented vowel, or the usual penultimate syllable otherwise.

María Chuchena was roofing her roof. A roofer asks whether she is roofing her hut or someone else’s. She says she is roofing María Chuchena’s roof.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Hard · ch, t and j

Pronunciation: Contrast techo with choza and ajena; ch and j are different sounds.

When you tell stories, count how many you tell; otherwise you will not know how many stories you tell.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Hard · cu and nt

Pronunciation: Cuento and cuenta share a diphthong; finish the final vowel clearly.

Pedro Pablo Pérez Pereira, a poor Portuguese painter, paints pictures for little money to pass through Paris.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Hard · p, r and pr

Pronunciation: Keep pr as one cluster and let the repeated p stay light.

They said I said a saying; I did not say it. Had I said it, it would have been well said because I said it.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Hard · d and ch

Pronunciation: The h is silent in he, hubiera and habría; link adjoining vowels without adding h.

In a reed bed in Junqueira, Julián gathered reeds. Juan joined him, and together they gathered reeds.

Traditional; wording varies by collection

Hard · j and consonant transitions

Pronunciation: Juntóse is an older word order for se juntó. Keep the stressed tó clear.

Three fuzzy bolo chickens. Three fuzzy bolo chickens in a different word order.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Easy · short consonant and vowel contrasts

Pronunciation: The comic adjective bolo varies in regional meaning; focus on the alternating p, b and l rather than treating the sentence as natural prose.

Rosa Rizo prays in Russian; in Russian Rosa Rizo prays.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Easy · short consonant and vowel contrasts

Pronunciation: Each word-initial r is a trill. In the Spain accent, z differs from s; keep the final vowels steady.

My horse steps on straw; on straw my horse steps.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Easy · short consonant and vowel contrasts

Pronunciation: The j in paja is a back-of-mouth sound; ll in caballo is normally pronounced like y in the selected Spain model.

Pepe put a peso on the bottom of the well. On the bottom of the well, Pepe put a peso.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Easy · short consonant and vowel contrasts

Pronunciation: Distinguish peso, piso and pozo; in Spain, the z of pozo has a different sound from the s in peso.

Jorge the locksmith sells locks in his locksmith's shop.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Easy · short consonant and vowel contrasts

Pronunciation: The rr is a trill; the g before e and the j have the same back-of-mouth sound.

Today is already yesterday, and yesterday is already today; the day has arrived, and today is today.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Easy · short consonant and vowel contrasts

Pronunciation: Keep hoy as one syllable. Ya, ayer and llegó practise the y-like sound used for ll in the selected voice.

Whoever uses few potatoes pays for few potatoes.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Easy · short consonant and vowel contrasts

Pronunciation: Keep the alternating p and hard g clear. Papa means potato in this version, not papá, dad.

The big sapo-sapote toad does not eat sweet potato.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Easy · short consonant and vowel contrasts

Pronunciation: Sapote is sound play beside sapo; camote is a Latin American word for sweet potato. Keep the three o endings rounded and steady.

He goes along the barrel.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Easy · short consonant and vowel contrasts

Pronunciation: Both word-internal rr sequences are trills. Barril has final stress, while recorre stresses co.

Bee honey, bee honey, bee honey.

Puerto Rico; collection label

Easy · short consonant and vowel contrasts

Pronunciation: Keep miel as one syllable and the j in abeja clear; repeat without losing the d between vowels.

From elbow to pipe, from pipe to elbow.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Easy · short consonant and vowel contrasts

Pronunciation: Contrast ordinary n with ñ; caño has ñ, whereas codo does not. Join the words without adding pauses inside them.

Dad, put out bread for Pepín; for Pepín put out bread, Dad.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Easy · short consonant and vowel contrasts

Pronunciation: Papá and Pepín have final stress. Keep pan and pon distinct without an English puff of air after p.

Your tea took away your cough.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Easy · short consonant and vowel contrasts

Pronunciation: Tu, té, te, quitó and tos are separate little beats. Té is tea; te is an unstressed pronoun.

Ñoño Yáñez eats yam in the mornings with the boy.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Easy · ñ and ni

Pronunciation: Keep ñ as one sound, like the middle of canyon, throughout Yáñez, ñame and niño.

Antonio with the hair bun gave his testimony in autumn.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Easy · ñ and ni

Pronunciation: Compare ni in Antonio and testimonio with the single ñ sound in moño and otoño.

From generation to generation, the generations degenerate with greater degeneration.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: Alternate ge with the hard g in degeneran; do not pronounce every g alike.

Francisco was in the woods looking for such an abrupt, cross-eyed Basque man that, when he saw a joker, he told him, “I am looking for the abrupt, cross-eyed Basque.”

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: The challenge shuffles the clusters sc and zc. This old comic description includes bizco, cross-eyed; it is not polite language for addressing someone.

Galo reaches the lake and then connects with the talkative lay brother from Lugo, who reaches the lake after long leagues.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: Compare llega, lago, liga and luego. Lego here is a lay brother; luengas is a literary word meaning long.

In Pinto, Juan Ponte the fifth stands out for painting; from end to end, Ponte promptly paints the bridge in Pinto.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: Keep the stress of Pinto, Ponte and punta on the first syllable. The sequence repeatedly switches the vowels within p-nt.

The potatoes that Paca and Pola peel are piled up little by little by Pepe.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: Papas is a common Latin American word for potatoes. Keep p unaspirated and distinguish Paca, Pola and Pepe by their vowels.

How much wood would a rodent gnaw if rodents gnawed wood?

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: R is trilled at the start of roería, roedor and royeran. Do not confuse the y of royeran with the d in madera.

A climbing-climbing cloak, four little cloth cloaks. When the cloak climbs and climbs, four little cloth cloaks climb and climb.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: This is deliberately nonsensical cloth-and-climbing sound play. Distinguish trepa from trapo without inserting a vowel into tr.

Paco Pino Ponte Pascual Pérez paints lovely paintings for wealthy people. He paints little for poor people because they pay a small price.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: Alternate pa, pe, pi and po carefully. The phrasing satirizes a painter's interest in money rather than recommending his behaviour.

I bought few glasses; few glasses I bought, and since I bought few glasses, I paid for few glasses.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: Alternate co-pa with po-ca. Stress compré and pagué on the final syllable.

The queen's cushions. The sultan's drawers. What cushions! What drawers! Which chest of drawers do they go in?

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: Switch clearly between co-ji and ca-jo. J keeps its back-of-mouth sound in every word.

A four-cornered handkerchief of pure agave fibre, of agave fibre pure, of agave fibre pure, of pure agave fibre: a four-cornered handkerchief.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: Pita is plant fibre. Switch between pu-ra and pi-ta while keeping the tap in pura short.

Paco Peco, a rich boy, hurled insults at his uncle Federico like a madman. His uncle said, “Easy, Paco Peco; less lip!”

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: Poco pico literally means little beak, here a comic request to talk less. Contrast Paco, Peco, poco and pico.

There are Cilicia and Cecilia, Sicily, Silecia and Seleucia.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: This list plays with names, not a complete geography lesson. Silecia preserves the collection's spelling; modern Spanish normally writes Silesia.

Saint Roch's dog has no tail because Ramón Ramírez has stolen it.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: Use trills in perro, Roque, rabo, Ramón, Ramírez and robado, but a single tap in porque.

The mischievous bird pecks the typical drinking bowl; the typical drinking bowl is pecked by the mischievous bird.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: Pícara, pájara, típica and jícara stress the third syllable from the end. Jícara is a small traditional drinking bowl.

Behind the dry stick, I ate honey and dry grass.

Bolivia; collection label

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: The r in detrás is a tap. Keep ie together in miel and hierba, and distinguish the endings of seco and seca.

Mother and daughter go to Mass; if the mother steps on straw, the daughter steps on straw.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: The conjunction is e before hija because hija begins with an i sound. The h is silent.

A dog in the mud sweeps with its tail. With its tail, a dog in the mud sweeps.

Mexico; collection label

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: Use trills in perro, barro and barre. Rabo starts with a trill too, despite having only one written r.

To be able to speak, you have to know. Knowing gives you the power to speak. Speaking just to speak, without knowing, takes away your power to speak.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Intermediate · alternating consonants and syllables

Pronunciation: Repeat the ending of poder and saber clearly; do not let the repeated para become an indistinct filler.

I come from Guadalajara; I carry rockrose, I sell rockrose, I give each sprig for half a unit. What expensive rockrose I bring from Guadalajara!

Mexico; collection label

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: Jara means rockrose. Tap the r in jara and cara; do not turn Guadalajara into an English pronunciation.

Little Pablo stepped on the floor; stepping on the floor, Pablo stepped. When Pablo stepped on the floor, Pablo stepped on pieces of flooring.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: Piso is the floor; pisó means stepped. Make the change in stress audible while keeping the vowels identical.

A pipe knocked over a pipe, and another pipe stopped it. Some pipes have pipes, but this pipe had no pipe.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: Tubo and tuvo sound the same. Keep the single r in tiró brief and the final stress clear.

I ate peanuts and became all peanut-ed; now, to un-peanut myself, how will I un-peanut myself?

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: The long verbs are comic inventions in the attested challenge, not normal vocabulary. Break them into syllables before accelerating.

I ate cherimoyas and became all cherimoya-ed; now, to un-cherimoya myself, how will I un-cherimoya myself?

Chile; collection label

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: The invented verbs reuse chirimoya. Keep chi and ri separate and stress the final syllable of desenchirimoyaré.

A Parangaricutirimícuaro fellow wanted to do some Parangaricutirimícuaro-ing; whoever can do it will be a Parangaricutirimícuaro-er.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: The place-name derivatives are comic word-building, not everyday verbs. Read the repeated root slowly before adding each ending.

A peca, meca, derga, andorga, cucurruchaca bird, lame and deaf, has little peca, meca, derga, andorga, cucurruchaca birds, lame and deaf.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: The unusual adjectives are sound-play rather than a vocabulary list. This excerpt tests singular feminine endings against plural masculine endings.

I have a speckled, piririnca, piriranca, golden, white-breasted hen; she has speckled, piririnca, piriranca, golden, white-breasted chicks.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: Piririnca and piriranca are playful sound words. Keep the single r taps light and distinguish a from o in the endings.

A climbing cacatrepa has three little cacatrepas. When the cacatrepa climbs, the three little cacatrepas climb.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: Cacatrepa is an invented creature name in this word game. The ordinary verb trepa means climbs; keep tr together.

I have a little board that is thoroughly entarbintantingulador-ed. Whoever can un-tarabintantingulate it will be a fine un-tarabintantingulator.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: These long forms are attested nonsense words. Learn the repeating syllable pattern; they are not words to use in ordinary conversation.

How do you eat in Como? What do you mean, how do I eat in Como? I eat in Como the way I eat in Como; I eat in Como the way you eat in Como.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: Como is also an Italian place name. Cómo asks how, while como can mean I eat or as; the vowels remain the same.

I want to remove myself from my state of no longer being a neighbour.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: The sentence stretches desavecindar into a comic repetitive challenge. Practise ve-cin-dar slowly before its prefix.

If I eat the way I eat, and you eat the way you eat, how can you eat the way I eat, if I eat the way I eat?

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: The stress stays on co throughout. Meaning changes through sentence structure, not through a different vowel or consonant.

I have a crinkly-necked sow with her crinkly-necked piglets. Yes indeed, the sow is crinkly-necked; yes indeed, her piglets are crinkly-necked too.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: Pescuesicrespa and its diminutive are playful compound forms. Keep the ue in puerca together and separate the consonants in crespa.

Because I can, that person can; because you can, I can. But if you cannot, I cannot either.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: Compare puedo, puede and puedes. Their first syllable is a single pue, not two separate vowel syllables.

Love is a madness that only the priest can cure, but the priest who cures it commits a great madness.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: Cura can be a priest or a form of the verb to cure. Use a single r tap in cura and locura.

This little cup has lost its nose-and-ear parts on me.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: Desnarizorejó is a comic invented form joining nariz and oreja. The cup is being imagined as having facial features.

The king of Constantinople wants to de-Constantinople himself. Whoever de-Constantinoples him will be a good de-Constantinopler.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: These invented forms extend the place name Constantinopla. Practise cons-tan-ti-no before adding the longer endings.

Down a hillside went a bifigafa with seven little bifigafas. One little bifigafa fell; when the mother tried to catch it, she fell too.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: Bifigafa and bifigafito are invented creature names. The changing endings make this a tongue twister, not a zoology lesson.

The floor is divided into squares. Who will un-square it? Whoever un-squared it will be a fine un-squarer.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: The long forms are playful derivatives of cuadrícula. Keep cua together and respect the changing final stress.

Leave the dusty cenegoza hen in the ashtray to cover herself in ashes; she will un-ash herself.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: Cenegoza is the collection's playful form. Encenice and desencenizará extend ceniza, ash; this is a word game, not animal-care advice.

I have a very de-peach-able peach. Whoever can de-peach it for me will be a great de-peacher.

Mexico; collection label

Hard · word endings, homophones and long syllable sequences

Pronunciation: Durazno is a common Latin American word for peach. The longer forms are deliberately invented for this challenge.

I have an uncle who makes boxes: boxes, calajas, little boxes and big boxes. When you pull the cords, out come boxes, calajas, little boxes and big boxes.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · long repeated patterns

Pronunciation: Calajas is a playful echo word here. Alternate the back-of-mouth j sound with clear k in cajas.

Friend in the brown cloak, do not buy more brown cloaks: whoever buys many brown cloaks pays for many brown cloaks. I bought many brown cloaks and paid for many.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · long repeated patterns

Pronunciation: Keep the pr in compre together. The accents in compré and pagué shift stress to the last syllable.

A pruner was pruning a vine. Another pruner passing by asked, “Pruner pruning the vine, which vine are you pruning? My vine, or your own?” “Neither your vine nor mine: I am pruning my uncle Bartolo's vine.”

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · long repeated patterns

Pronunciation: Use a trill in parra, but a tap in podador and Bartolo. The repeated questions are easier if you pause at their boundaries.

Do not look at me: they are watching us look at each other, and they will see in your eyes that we love each other. Let us not look at each other; when they stop watching, we will.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · long repeated patterns

Pronunciation: Keep the repeated mi and me vowels distinct. The meaning follows the changes between miran, miren and miraremos.

The drake told the duck, “Duck, for you I bring upside down the foot of a big-footed duck, a long-legged big-footed duck like you.” The drake tossed the foot to the duck, and the duck set upon the poor drake with her feet.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · long repeated patterns

Pronunciation: Pata means both a female duck and a leg or foot. Pa'ti represents colloquial para ti; do not add a full ra syllable there.

In the square in Constantinople was a corner; on the corner a house, on the house a balcony, on the balcony a stake, and on the stake a parrot. The parrot is on the stake on the balcony of the house on the corner of the square in Constantinople.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · long repeated patterns

Pronunciation: Build the chain one object at a time. Stress Constantinopla on no and keep the consonants in estaca clear.

If your taste liked what my taste likes, my taste would like what your taste likes too. But since your taste does not like what my taste likes, my taste does not like what your taste likes either.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · long repeated patterns

Pronunciation: Keep the g hard in every gusta and gusto. The changing endings carry the meaning, so do not swallow the last vowel.

This is the key to the house. The house is in the square; the house has a room, the room has a floor, on the floor is a table, on the table a cage, and in the cage a parrot that sings: “Parrot in cage, cage on table, table on floor, floor in room, room in house, house in the square: this is the key to the house.”

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · long repeated patterns

Pronunciation: Follow the sequence of objects and reverse it carefully. Ll in llave and j in jaula are different sounds.

Little Perico the bandit hid in a hat. The hat was straw, so he hid in a box. The box was cardboard, so he hid in a drawer. The drawer was pine, so he hid in a cucumber. The cucumber ripened, and Perico was saved.

Attested Spanish-language word game; origin not established

Hard · long repeated patterns

Pronunciation: Track the rhyme pairs without dropping the repeated se metió. The final stress of cartón, cajón and maduró matters.