Yiddish Tongue Twisters
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| Original: | Fir Funr Forn Firn Korn, Barg Arup un Barg Arip. |
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| English: | Four wagons are driving carrying wheat, uphill and downhill. |
| Original: | Fin Minsk kin Brisk geit a fux in holt a bix in pisk. |
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| English: | From Minsk to Brisk a fox goes with a rifle in the mouth. |
| Original: | Gelernt iz gut, un gelernt iz nit gut |
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| English: | Learning is good, and learning is not good |
| Original: | Drei draye dremlakhs durkh drei draye dremlakhs |
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| English: | Three dry draydlakhs through three dry draydlakhs |
| Original: | Vos vilt ir, vos vilt ir, vos vilt ir vi a kleyn kind |
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| English: | What do you want, what do you want, what do you want like a little child |
| Original: | Vos iz der nayer nign, vos iz der nayer nign |
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| English: | What is the new melody, what is the new melody |
| Original: | Der khosn hot gekocht a kokh, der kokh hot gekocht a khosn |
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| English: | The groom cooked a cook, the cook cooked a groom |