Polish Tongue Twisters
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Rough Translations

1. From Czech huts came three Czechs. Germans: Von tschechischen Hütten kamen drei Tschechen. 
2. We separated ourselves from the enthusiastic crowd. 
3. Push into this boat a hedgehog or eight boxes of figs. 
4. Come on and drop your sadness into the depth of a bottle. 
5. Daughter of a man from Constantinople 
6. This frame here, that frame there. 
7. German: Ein Flattermann spielte Balalaika und schluckte dabei Halbfettkäse. 
8. Jerzy (George) doesn't believe that there is an hedgehog's nest on the tower. German: Jerzy (Georg) glaubt nicht, daß auf dem Turm ein Igelnest ist. 
9. We emancipated ourselves from the enthusiastic crowd. German: Wir haben uns aus der enthusiastischen Menge heraus emanzipiert. 
10. to revive 
11. We eliminated ourselves from the enthusiastic crowd. German: Wir haben uns aus der enthusiastischen Menge heraus eliminiert. 
12. Ladder with broken steps. German: Leiter mit ausgebrochenen Stufen. 
13. Herbst arrived with trout, he listened to slander with disgust while peering through a crack in the shooting gallery. 
14. Jerzy doesn't believe that one hundred plates are lying on the tower. German: Jerzy glaubt nicht, daß auf dem Turm hundert Teller liegen. 
15. (broken revolver) heater 
16. Sasza was walking on a dry road in drought. 
17. Three multi-colored quail flew through three multi-colored tenement houses. German: Drei scheckige/kunterbunte Wachteln flogen durch drei scheckige/kunterbunte Mietshäuser. 
18. A moth tries to tease a moth. 
19. Papa, are you reading quotations from Tacitus? 
20. My mother has mamalyga (old name of thick corn porridge). 
21. The revolver is broken. 
22. He won't believe, that George is lying on the tower. 
23. So what, that he is from Sweden? 
24. Loyal Jola (female name), disloyal Jola 
25. A beetle sounds in a the reeds in Szczebrzeszynie, disturbing rain drops. 
26. Mailman from the Tczew, Rotmistrz (rank in old Polish army) from Czchow. 
27. The cost of post offices in Tczew. 
28. First and family name popularised in the film 'How I started the Second World War' 
29. King Carol bought coral-coloured beads for queen Caroline. 
30. In dry weather, the street is dry. 
31. Don't pepper the hog, Peter! The ham will be better. 
32. Peter, don’t pepper the pork with pepper because you’ll over-pepper the pork with pepper. 
33. In times of drought the road is dry. 
34. Table with broken legs. 
35. In Szczebrzeszyn a beetle sounds in the reeds ... 
36. Sasha walked down the dry street. 
37. A flea pushed a flea, the flea cried. 
38. The brid flow into the wallpapered room. German: Der Vogel ist ins tapezierte Zimmer eingeflogen. 
39. A woodpecker cut the stump. 
40. From the enthusiastic crowd, an unidentified magician separated, who imagined his selfdestruction. 
41. What does a rifleman need to shoot down a black grouse which is having a nap in a tree on a rainy day. 
42. Die loyale Jola und die illoyale Jola. 
43. When a farter will have nailed (down) a straw with a nail, he will fart a bit. German: Wenn ein Pupser einen Halm mit einem Nagel festgenagelt haben wird, dann wird er ein bischen pupsen. 
44. a town in Poland 
45. One flea told another one: flea, push a flea with a flea! So flea pushed flea while using another flea - and there is no flea! 
46. The emperor was combing his wife. 
47. In Ostróg (city) trumpeters were blowing their trumpets: tra ra ra ... (the sound of a trumpet) 
48. Tooth, tooth soup. Oak, oak soup. 
49. A black claret-speckled cow was chewing grass, turning its muzzle. 
50. Anticyclone is better than depression 
51. nine-hundred-ninety-nine-thousand (thing), eg. a ship of 999000 dwt 
52. Let you begin (e.g. a quarrel). "wszcznij" is a joke. There is an infinitive "wszcząć" - "to begin"/"to start up" but imperative is not used. 
53. (?) 
54. I'm happy that you're happy. 
55. Do Czechs rejoyce that Czesio combs his hair. 
56. A beetle sounds in a the reeds in Szczebrzeszyn, disturbing rain drops. 
57. Little daughter of inhabitant of Constantinople 
58. Loyal Jola (female name) separated (individualized) herself from the enthusiastic crowd. 
59. (The) King's clown has the disobedient Miniature Pinscher under the heater. 
61. Autumn has crowned the branches with a compliant procession of colours. 
 


Dziekuje

Rafal , Marta Baranowska, Monika Barlow, Anton Bespalov, Mizerski Bogdan, Jurgis Butkus, Ewa Callahan, Malgorzata Cascioni, Jan Domaradzki, Agata Dusko, Alex Gacka, Staszek Gierlicki, Mariusz Gruza, Grzegorz Grzenia, Bolek Hrycyna, Ewa Jaworska, Zbigniew Kajca, Konrad Kaszuba, Jan Kiezebrink, Jerzy Koch, Anna Kopij, Wladek Kopinski, Agata Kowalak, Pawel Kowalski, Piotr Kozmin, Darek Kubala, Andrzej Machulec, Zbigniew I. Maj, Agnieszka Majeran, Tomasz Majeran, Tomasz Majeran, Christian Melsheimer, Witold Mizerski, Andrzej Mleczko, Artur Nowak, Magdalena Nowak, Ivonna Nowicka, Agata Olszak, Brendan Pawlowski, Rob Pietrzak, Michal Potocki, Jakub Rudzinski, Pawel Ryszawa, Hanna Schmid, geb. Rutecki, Jarek Sobczak, Pawel Stefanczyk, Anka Stonert, Mikolaj F. Swidzinski, Tomasz Wegrzanowski, Anna Zgierun, Gwido Zlatkes, Marek Zukowski, Karol Zwiruk

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