Rwanda or Kinyarwanda Tongue Twisters
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Original:
Ta izo njyo uze urye izi nzuzi.
English:
Drop those pots fragments and come to eat these courgette grains.
Original:
Ibibiribiri bibiri biri mu murima wa Mubirigi. Hari umugabo wo kwica ibibiribiri bibibri!
English:
Two birds (I don't know the name in English) are in Mubirigi's field. Is there any man who can kill two birds!
Original:
Icyamamaye abakobwa b'abakristo n'abamulamu
English:
Beautiful Christian girls and mulamu girls
Original:
Ibyo utwite iriho umwe uri kure
English:
The thing that one person says another person should do
Original:
Icyo gihe kireba kikiga, kikiga kireba kirekire
English:
As you speak, you stutter, but as you stutter, you speak fluently
Original:
Icyo ugiye kwihutira uti: "Ndi muhutiriza, muhutiriza nawe"
English:
As you give, you say: "I am giving, and you are also giving""
Original:
Icyo gihe ntawapfuye umusambanyi ntawapfuye
English:
As I pound the mortars, I pound them
Original:
Niwagaragarayo umutima wanyu
English:
I am troubled in my heart
Original:
Inkuru za Kigali zirimo ibyago
English:
The news of Kigali is like bird feathers
Original:
Icyo kintu kikora umwe ukora ukora
English:
The thing that one person does, another person does as well
Original:
Icyo gihe umuntu uzisobanura ubunge, ubunge bw'umuntu buzisobanura
English:
As a person speaks to a parliament, the parliament speaks to the person
Original:
Ubwo utinya iribyo, utinya ku isuka
English:
As you eat this food, you eat to get full