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Spanish Tongue Twisters
Posted by: Megan Onions, Sales Coordinator
Here are some Spanish tongue twisters. I hope you enjoy them! Even though they don’t make any sense in English…
¿Cómo quieres que te quiera
si el que quiero que me quiera
no me quiere como quiero que me quiera?
(How do you want me to love you, if the one I love doesn’t love me like I want.)
El cielo está enladrillado,
¿quién lo desenladrillará?
El desenladrillador
que lo desenladrille,
buen desenladrillador será.
(The sky has cobble-stones, who will uncobble it? The cobble-stone man who uncobbles it, a good cobble-stone man will be.)
El perro de San Roque
no tiene rabo
porque Ramón Ramírez
se lo ha cortado.
(San Roque’s dog doesn’t have a tail, because Ramon Ramirez cut it off.)
Pablito clavó un clavito.
—¿Qué clavito clavó Pablito?
—Un clavito chiquitito.
(Little Paul hammered a nail. Which nail hammered Little Paul? A little tiny nail.)
Un tigre, dos tigres, tres tigres
trigaban en un trigal.
¿Qué tigre trigaba más?
Todos trigaban igual.
(One tiger, two tigers, three tigers, were eating in a wheat field. Which tiger was eating more? They were all eating the same.)
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About the Author
Megan has studied French and German since she was 11 years old and graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Translation in 2011. After school exchanges and two stints as an au pair in Austria, Megan turned her attention to translation, completing several internships with translation companies, doing volunteer translations for a not-for-profit organisation in the healthcare sector and working as a freelance translator during her final year. During her undergraduate studies, Megan carried out a 5-month internship as a translator at the Headquarters of Volkswagen AG in Germany and completed a semester of study at Geneva’s prestigious Ecole de traduction et d’interprétation (ETI), gaining First Class marks. She hopes to continue this success as she completes a Master’s degree in Translation alongside her position at Veritas.