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A fun thing about the four/ten tongue twister is that only some Chinese people can say it. Like, in Guangdong, most people wouldn't be able to manage it, because they wouldn't be able to pronounce the retroflaxes in the shi. It would all come out like si, si, si, etc. You can really freak out Cantonese people if you can show off with this one.

It's funny (and a little off this topic, I guess), that there is this one tongue twister that is really hard for Chinese people, but everybody in my intermediate Chinese class could do it (we were all Americans). It had something to do with carrying stuff on your shoulders with two pails over a pole. I can't remember it, unfortunately. Maybe it included a lot of sounds that are not too common in Chinese, but common in English.

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