Articulation Tongues Twisters are a fun and easy way to practice articulation. Your tongue works different muscles to form the various sounds, which are needed for full articulation.
Use Tongue Twister To Aid Articulation
Actors, Presenters, English of a Second Language users and those wishing to develop their articulation skills would benefit from using tried and true tongue twisters.
Tongues twisters are exactly that, they are difficult to pronouce words written in a particular way, with more complexity than usual english sentences.
By practicing these twisters out loud in a repetitive manner, will help you increase your overall articulation skills, which in this day and age in the digital world, is needed even more so.
Inserted here are some well known and well-used tongue twisters actors, presenters, or English of Second Language users will benefit from the most.
Speak these words out loud and slowly, to begin with, then speed up the lines. You will get better.
Remember to work on your consonants and vowel sounds. Practice over and over again until you feel comfortable and ready to tackle a role, presentation, or reading out loud. Good luck.
- She sell sea shells by the sea shore
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
Betty Botter bought some butter
But she said the butter’s bitter
If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter
But a bit of better butter will make my batter better
So ‘twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter
The most challenging tongue twister:
“The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.
•I need a box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer.
•He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
The jolly collie swallowed a lollipop.
•Xylophones exist or so existentialists insist.
•Yoda met a Yeti on the Plains of Serengeti.
•Zoologists illogically love to read astrology
She sells seashells by the seashore,
The shells she sells are seashells, I’m sure.
So if she sells seashells on the seashore,
Then I’m sure she sells seashore shells.
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair,
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?
I thought a thought,
But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I thought.
If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought,
I wouldn’t have thought so much.
•I need a box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer. •He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts. The jolly collie swallowed a lollipop.
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Articulation Is the Ability to Speak with Clarity
Using a range of tongue twisters and words which allow the tongue to use a variety of muscles to speak, is part of our articulation.
Articulation is the clear source of clear sounds in speech. We get our clear voice by noting our own articulation ability and identifying what we need to work on.
If we tend to speak quickly or our consonants aren’t pronounced enough, we need to work on that.
There is nothing worse than listening to an actor on stage or on film who does not articulate themselves well enough.
We as audience members strain enough as it is and if we are lucky, we get to view subtitles. But an actor or presenter, must make sure that they work on their clarity of voice and articulations skills especially in speech.
Articulation Improves Communication Skills
Without a doubt having good communication skills which includes articulation improves good communication.
Good communication skills are needed in virtually every industry. But they are especially important in performance work, that being acting, teaching, presenting and leading.
When you are able to speak clearly, you are more likely to be heard and can therefore be more likely to obtain your objectives.
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Tongue Twisters Can Improve Your Second Language Accent
If you are learning English of a Second Language, learning a variety of articulation exercises will help improve your second language accent.
Let’s face it, some accents are more difficult to understand than others. But working on your accent, in terms of articulation, pace, syllable accentuation and emphasis will help with your overall communication skills.
When you have to articulate using tongue twisters in the English language or any language for that matter, this will help you utilize the most difficult parts of the English language and increase your overall accent and skill.
Other Ways You Can Use Them for Good Articulation
Slow down the pace very, very slowly
Quicken the pace very, very quickly
Emphasize every second words
Whisper the lines, then gradually add volume
Exaggerate every line with your voice and facial expressions.
Practice with a friend in tandem
Practice with a friend one at a time.
Practicing Tongue Twisters to help articulation is a fun way to see and hear results. Great for actors, beginning actors, ESOL learners, and the like. They increase your ability to communicate
