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Free Voice Lessons: Twist your Tongue with these Tongue Twisters Today! (Easy vocal warm ups!)

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By ProCW


Introduction to Tongue Twisters

  • Are you an actor?

  • A vocalist, perhaps?

  • A business person?

That's right. A business person.

Regardless of your vocal needs, tongue twisters are a great way to warm up vocally and improve your diction. So, if you're preparing for a performance as an actor, a concert as a vocalist, or even if you're lecturing at a business presentation tongue twisters can provide a great vocal warm up for your voice!

The following sets of tongue twisters are designed for you to speed through. Don't worry if you make mistakes. Keep moving forward until you get to the end. Go back afterward and understand your mistakes and correct them accordingly.

For What Else are Twisters Good?

  • All things speech related, to put it simply. If you speak in front of people, if you speak to them on the phone, if you have any type of verbal conversation and even if you sing, tongue twisters will get the blood flowing to the right places in your mouth, jaw, cheeks and even other important facial muscles!
  • Tongue twisters take a tole on the tongue. But the the goal is not to make the tongue tired, but to try to make the tongue wired!
  • They are great to have fun with!


This tongues isn't that twisted... at least not yet!

CC - djolley.com
CC - djolley.com

Short Tongue Twisters 1-5

Ready? Set? Go! Okay, stop. Say them out loud! Ready Go!

  • Top of the day. Tip top. Tippity toppity snip snop.
  • Babbling, Ben brought Babs to behave badly.
  • David tried drying tomatos daily, due to Dina's tremendous diet.
  • Paul pruned Penelope's pansies leaving Penelope perplexed.
  • Mable had a maple tree. Mable's maple tree didn't make maple syrup for Mable. Is Mable's maple unable?

Short Tongue Twisters 6-10

It takes time to truly treasure the twisting of the tongue.

Stop reading now. You didn't read 1-5 out loud. I know you didn't. Don't try and fool me. Start over - now! If you did, then I apologize. You may now continue.

  • Twenty little leopards laughed at two lofty lions.
  • Imagine having an imaginative imagination.
  • Many mice are mighty mice.
  • Thirty-three times three plus one is me.
  • Sure, Sally sold sixty shells at the sea's shore, but Sue sold seventy seven! Sally, surprised at Sue's success, screemed and shouted seventeen times; "Sue's shells are shabby! Sally's shells are sheek!" Sue said to Sally, "Say what?" Then Sue shouted, "Sally sold sixty six shells so she's upset. Sorry for her shouting!"


Now that's twisted!

CC - by Abu on Flickr.com
CC - by Abu on Flickr.com

Make your own tongue twister video & get featured here!

Instructions

  • Try your best to say the tongue twisters as briskly and as crisply as possible.

  • You can say the ones that I've provided, or make your own!

  • Let me know that you've made them and put them up on one of the sites that HubPages supports (youtube, metacafe, revver and google) and I'll put it up here for more people to enjoy!

This Lady is Pretty Good at Doing Tongue Twisters!!! Hmm... I wonder if you can you do them better? I bet you can! Give them a try. Record yourself!

Apparently you can use tongue twisters to learn English! Teacher Joe Devoto demonstrates a few tongue twisters here:


Make up your own Tongue Twisters! Type them here for others to enjoy! Ready? Set? Go!

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Zsuzsy Bee profile image

Zsuzsy Bee  says:
17 months ago

Fun hub ...regards Zsuzsy

ripplemaker profile image

ripplemaker  says:
17 months ago

Say TOY BOAT as fast as you can. LOL

tinyteddy profile image

tinyteddy  says:
17 months ago

thanks a lott lots of thanks thanks a lot ltos of thanks

GoogleCashMoney profile image

GoogleCashMoney  says:
17 months ago

Very Funny Hub.

SweetiePie profile image

SweetiePie  says:
17 months ago

Great hub!

me  says:
16 months ago

Very cool!

ProCW profile image

ProCW  says:
15 months ago

Zsuzsy Bee - Thanks!

ripplemaker - Said "TOY BOAT" pretty fast... :)

tinytedy - trying to untwist my tongue now.

Google - Thanks

SweetiePie - Thanks

me - thanks! :)

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So, without any further adieu, I'd like for all of you to create your own tongue twisters. Put them here on your comments or create your tongue twisting hubs, let me know and we can link to each other! :)

ProCW

braincandy profile image

braincandy  says:
15 months ago

Want more fun? Take a look at my tongue twisters in my "Laugh the Blues away" article. I didn't know this was such a popular past time. braincandy

Uriel profile image

Uriel  says:
15 months ago

ok.. those are much fun :D (lv dem)

ProCW profile image

ProCW  says:
15 months ago

Thank you brain and Uriel for your comments! :)

Shirley Anderson profile image

Shirley Anderson  says:
15 months ago

I'm really good at these! As long as I say them really s-l-o-w-l-y.

Fun hub, CW!

ProCW profile image

ProCW  says:
15 months ago

hehe... slow, fast... what's the difference... as long as you can say them, right? :) thanks for the comment shirley... lemme know how you progress with them! :)

ProCW

Ann Smith profile image

Ann Smith  says:
15 months ago

Ooh, the toy boat one is really good! Simple yet tough. A paradox!

betherickson profile image

betherickson  says:
14 months ago

This is great and fun! I tried it and at first it's really hard. I got toungue tied but repeating over and over seems I'm getting well. :) Thumbs up!

ProCW profile image

ProCW  says:
14 months ago

Thanks Ann & betherickson! :)

Miss Match profile image

Miss Match  says:
4 months ago

Great fun!Now...try saying 'red lorry blue lorry' [as fast as you can;) ]

Sexy jonty profile image

Sexy jonty  says:
2 months ago

Very well written hub .....

very much informative ......

Thank you very much for your great hub, for good advice, good wishes and support. Thanks for sharing your experience with all of us.

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