Voice Acting/Tongue Twisters
Tongue twisters are a great way to warm up your articulators.[1] Begin slowly at first, then pick up speed. Enunciate each word clearly. Don’t drift off or drop the ends of words.
Use these in conjunction with enunciation exercises.
Many more tongue twisters are provided at the International Collection of Tongue Twisters.
Very furry frogs are very rare
Budda gudda budda gudda boo
Crispy cookies crumble and they crunch
Mommy made me mash my M&M's
Princess Pippa picked a purple pig.
A noisy noise annoys an ouster
Lovely lemon liniment
Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs
Unique New York, Unique New York
I slit a sheet; a sheet I slit, upon the slitted sheet I sit.
A proper cup of coffee in a copper coffee pot
She sells seashells by the seashore.
I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
Clean clams crammed in clean cans.
Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
rudder valve reversals
He threw three free throws.
The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us.
Amid the mists and coldest frosts With stoutest wrists and loudest boasts He thrusts his fists against the posts And still insists he sees the ghosts.[2]
She stood in the doorway of Burgess’s fish store shop inexplicably mimicking him and welcoming him in.[3]
Recommended Reading
editStudents wanting to learn more about Tongue Twisters may be interested in reading the following books:
- (Evaluate the book Tongue Twisters and Vocal Warm-Ups, by Rodney Saulsberry )