Sunday, September 21, 2008

Audio postcard: Trabalenguas

Here's Alejandro, from Monterrey in northern Mexico, as he tries to teach me his favorite trabalenguas, or tongue-twister. 



La ciudad de Parangaricutirimicuaro
Está parangaricutirimicuarizada.
El que logre desparangaricutirimicuarizarla,
Buen desparangaricutirimicuarizador será.

(The city of Parangaricutirimicuaro
Is parangaricutirimicuarized.
He who manages to un-parangaricutirimicuarize it,
Will be a great deparangaricutirimicuarizer.)

1 comment:

Loitering Across America said...

This is great! I learned this one when i was in Mexico too. Someone broke it down for me like this:
Paran
Gari
Cuti
miri
cuaro

-km

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