Tongue Twisters & Articulation Drills for Actors
Built for actors, voice artists, and dialect coaches, this collection of articulation drills is organized by speech sound – so you can target exactly what you need.
Choose a sound, start slowly with precision, and build speed over time.
Explore by sound
Consonant pairs
P/B
- Proud purple parrots peck bright berries
- Proud bakers proudly bake perfect pretty brown pies.
- Betty Botter bought some butter
- A big black bug bit a big black bear and the big black bear plead blue
- Peter’s plump pink pig pranced past the pepper patch
- Pervasive puddle pooling purposefully putting spouts on people perfectly
T/D
- Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat
- Don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you
- Ten tiny turtles toddled toward the tall tree
- Daring drivers drove down dusty roads
- Tiny tired toads trudged through the dark damp ditches daily
K/G
- Kicking kittens keep kicking
- Kind kings keep kind kingdoms
- Giddy geckos glide gracefully
- Keen kings keep kicking clattering copper kettles
- Keenly clever kings keep kingdoms clean and gleaming
F/V
- Five frogs found forty fallen feathers
- Fresh French fried fish
- Fresh French fried flying fish from the freezer to the fryer
- Five velvet foxes vanished from the forest
- Vivian’s very vibrant village views
- Valiant vultures venture vast volcanoes
- Victor found fluffy feathers from a vivid finch
S/Z
- Silly seals swim swiftly south
- Susie sells seashells by the seashore
- Six zesty zebras seized silver seeds
- Sammy saw zero snazzy zippers sold
- Zelda’s zero zippers zapped zestfully
Fricatives & affricates
SH
- Shiny shells shine on shallow shores
- Sherman shared shredded sharp cheddar
- Rushing mushrooms pushed through lush marshes
- Fresh fish flash and swish and splash
- Fishing wishes wash on gushing shores
CH
- Cherry orchards charm each cheerful child
- Matching patches catch the watching arches
- Each beach branch holds a peach and notch
- Charlie chose to chew each crunchy peach
- Cheerful chimps chew chunky cherries
TH
- Thelma thinks thick thoughts thoroughly
- Thunder thumps through the thicket thrice
- Enthusiastic athletes breathe with rhythm
- Their brothers gather feathers together
- Though the weather gathered thunder they thanked the earth
J
- Jolly jellyfish juggle joyfully
- Jumping jaguars jostle gentle giraffes
- The enjoying majority adjusted the subject
- The beige corsage adorned the old village stage
- Joyful giraffes joined the major juggling project
ZH
- Measuring treasure brings unusual pleasure to leisurely explorers
- The visual genre regime division caused considerable confusion
- Every genre requires a measured exposure to visual persuasion
- The regime’s beige garage held a treasured rouge genre collage
Single consonants
R
- Rowdy rabbits race round rocky roads
- Rolling rivers rush round rugged rocks
- Barry’s bright parrot parrots every word
- Fresh fried fish fries fresh from the fryer
- Really rural roads rarely run ruler straight
L
- Lively llamas leap lightly over logs
- Lucky larks linger on low leafy limbs
- Silly valley villagers followed the balloons
- The small tall hall had a waterfall wall
- How much oil boils in a lightly oiled pan
W
- Twelve weary wolves waded through wide wet wilderness
- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
- Wicked witches wish for warmer weather
- Which wristwatch is a Swiss wristwatch
- Sixteen swooping sweet swallows swiftly swept sideways over the swaying sun-swept woodland stream
NG
- Singing Sammy sung songs on sinking sand
- Long strong songs ring among the swinging singing branches
- The king’s ringing longing rang long and strong into the evening
- Lingering wanderers longed for belonging among the singing throng
- Stinging winds flung long ringing songs among the swinging clinging vines
Blends
TR
- Trusty tractors trudge through tricky trails
- The electric street attracted extra attention
- Contrary creatures destroyed the intricate structure
- Our master instructor taught with extra lustre
- Strange street trams streak past distraught strangers
DR
- Dripping drums drone through the dreary drizzle
- Drew’s dripping drainpipe drove his dreadful dreams
- Andrew dreaded every dramatic drum driven dream
- Sandra’s dry drama drove Drew to dreamless sleep
- The drowsy dragon dropped his drumsticks in the drain
ST
- Stealthy starlings swoop over still stone steps
- Stormy streets stream with steady stomping strangers
- Dusty festive lanterns twisted in the gusty wind
- Persistent frostbitten hikers rested on eastern steps
- Strange stone statues stood steadfast against the eastern frost
SL
Slim slugs slither slickly through slimy sleet
- Sleepy sloths slide slowly along slippery slopes
- Sly slim slick slippery slugs slide slowly southward
- Sleep slowly slips away on slick slippery slopes
- Slim sleek sled dogs sliced swiftly through the slush
BR
- Black background brown background
- Brisk brave brigadiers brandish broad bright blades
- Brave brown bears brave the brutal brewing storm
- Brilliant bronze bracelets brighten Brenda’s wrist
- Bright brown brooks break briskly between broad boulders
BL
- Blustering blizzards blast bleak blankets of blue
- Blundering blacksmiths blast blunt blades blissfully
- Blueblack blackbirds blink at the blossoming bluebells
- Black blobs blue blobs black blobs blue blobs
- Bumbling bumblebees blunder through blossoming bluebell fields
PR
- Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
- Prim proper princes prefer pressed primrose prints
- Pretty proud prawns pranced primly through the pristine pond
Pretty proud princes practice properly.
Proper preparation prevents poor pronunciation.
PL
- Plain plaid pleats piled pleasantly on the plane
- Whoever planned pleated plaid pants clearly had a problem
- The exploring diplomat displayed splendid explosive replicas
- Supplying temples with ample complex examples pleased the people who applied
FR
- Freckled friends frown at frosty frightful Fridays
- Freddy’s freshly fried French fish straght from the fryer
- Freda’s fretful brother Fred frequently forgot his French phrases
- A frantic frog in a frayed coat frightened Frederick’s frantic friends
FL
- Flickering flames flung flimsy flakes of flint forward
- Flickering floodlights flung flimsy reflections across the flagpole
- Conflicting reflections baffled the befuddled inflatable flamingo
- Flimsy frantic flailing frenzy flung freely forward
GR
- Greasy grey goose grease
- A growing grower grows great green grapes greedily
- Grateful gritty growers ground great grey grainy gravel
- The grackle graded every grape and grunted at the grammar
- Grim grey grime gradually gripped the groaning grinding grey gloom
GL
- Gleaming glass globes glowed gloriously at dusk
- Gloomy Gloria glared at the glittering glaciers
- Gliding gracefully the gleaming glider glowed
- Gloria’s gleaming igloo glittered gloriously in the gloomy glare