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Q: while in China, have you forgot anything?
Remember your roots? Anybody remember, or teach this stuff to Chinese students?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled pepper?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
Where's the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore.
We surely shall see the sun shine soon.
Ranchers in Reno have really runny rabbits.
How many boards
Could the Mongols hoard
If the Mongol hordes got bored?
How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
I scream, you scream, we all scream for icecream!
How much wood could Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck, if Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood? If Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood, how much wood could and would Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck? Chuck Woods' woodchuck would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as any woodchuck would, if a woodchuck could and would chuck wood.
Do you know any Chinese ones?
Someone once tried teaching me the "Shi si si shi, shi shi si si shi shi si...." blah blah blah but as you can see I've forgotten it and couldn't say it right in the first place!
Janosik:
My favorite is following:
1.
妈妈骑马，马慢妈妈骂马
mā mā qí mǎ,
mǎ màn, mā mā mà mǎ.
Translation: Mother is riding a horse. The horse moves slowly. Mother chides the horse
The one you talk about is either shi poem (which is not a tongue twister but a proof why characters are for Chinese language essential) or following tongue twister (usually Southern Mandarin dialects do not use 'sh' replacing it by 's' - to say simplify it a lot - therefore it's quite difficult for people in Sichuan or Hubei):
2.
四 是 四 ， 十 是 十 ， 十 四 是 十 四 ， 四 十 是 四 十 ， 四 十 四 只 石 狮 子 是 死 的
sì shì sì
shí shì shí
shí sì shì shí sì
sì shí shì sì shí
sì shí sì zhī shí shī zǐ shì sǐ de.
Translation: 4 is 4, 10 is 10, 14 is 14, 40 is 40, 44 small stone lions are dead
There are many others though 
Holy fuk, BGHAL. You've really got to get yourself something to do. How bout a hobby?
Anywhere around there sell newspapers?
BHGAL:
holy fuk royce, I like to do wood work..... used to have a router and a decent dremel thing, make nice things.... bought all the same tools that I left at home, shortly after I got here. None of them work anymore, never got 1 project finished. ..what should I do?
you up north? .. please send me some camel wool and I will learn knitting or weaving or something you get me a couple pounds of that northern special camel wool, and I promise I will bring you a pineapple(10) and a coconut(10) and ray of WARM sunshinetheres one my dad knew (silent generation). about a stump named stumpy. cant rememebr it though. maybe somone here does.
good question about the newspapers ... I suppose there are some around, but surely not on every street corner. even online the news for my city has to be looked at carefully, first it is not in English and google translate is "iffy", but mostly it is about dates .... not ure how often they update it............... could be 7 years old on the front page today.
Every semester I have a new group and we practice the "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck..." because most of my students can't pronounce the words "wood/would". They say "ood". I also use "King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb" because most have problems with "th" words. Actually, I have an entire repertoire of tongue twisters because of pronunciation issues; usual & usually to replace u-u-al-ly; casual & casually to replace ca-u-al-ly.
"She sells seashells" is also in my bag of tricks.
