How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Tongue twisters are hard enough to say in your mother tongue. But imagine how dextrous your cakehole would have to be to get your vocal chords around tongue twisters in foreign languages.
So last summer, myself, Jon and Oliver set off for central London brandishing a camera and microphone in search of some tourists.
We simply asked every lost-looking person we found in the West End to recite a tongue twister in their own tongue. I say "simply", but trying to explain the concept to people who struggle to even understand your more benign greetings proved troublesome.
The tongue twisters were incredible. The people hilarious. And the final film... well, we'll let you judge that. But we want more.
According to the 1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters, there are 2,735 twisters in 108 languages. And I'm sure this is just the tip of the iceberg. We want you to film yourself saying your favorite one in your native language. Upload it to Google Videos or YouTube (link to follow), then link to them from this here blog.
The full version to date has just made it into post-production, and will be ready to tie your mouth in knots early in January.
In the meantime - recite after Freddy:
Trentatré Trentini entrarono a Trento, tutti e trentatré, trotterellando
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