Enunciation Exercises
Planted December 18, 2020
This is a collection of English words and phrases designed to help practice proper enunciation and pronunciation.
Starter Exercises
Perform these simple exercises to warm up your vocal muscles:
- Open your mouth and say “ah”.
- Put your tongue behind your top teeth and say “tuh”.
- Put your tongue behind your bottom teeth and say “duh”.
- Pucker your lips and say “puh”.
- Say “ee” like you are screaming.
- Say “oo” like you are in pain.
- Say “ng” like you are clearing your throat.
- Make a gargling noise like you have water in your mouth.
Exercises to Practice Pronunciation
These exercises are categorized into three levels of difficulty: Easy, Medium, and Hard.
Easy
- She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if the woodchuck could chuck wood?
- Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?
- How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
- I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop.
- Red lorry, yellow lorry, so a red lorry, a yellow lorry.
- How many cookies could a good cook cook If a good cook could cook cookies? A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.
- I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
- Betty Botter bought some butter but the butter Betty Botter bought was bitter so Betty Botter bought some better butter to make the bitter butter better.
- Funny furry ferrets fleeing fearing fearful predators.
Medium
- I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won’t wish the wish you wish to wish.
- How much can a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
- She sells seashells by the seashore. The seashells she sells are seashells she is sure. So if she sells seashells on the seashore, I’m sure she sells seashore shells.
- How much kind can a king kink, if a king could kink kind? A king would kink all the kind he could kink, if a king could kink kind!
- There was a fisherman named Fisher who fished for some fish in a fissure. Till a bigger fish with faster wits came and grabbed his fish and finished off his fissure.
- A proper copper coffee pot.
- A twister of twists once twisted a twist; he twistet the twist around the twist, and the twist that he twistet was a three-twisted twist. Now in twisting this twist, if a twist should untwist, would the twist that untwisted untwist the twists?
- The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us.
- I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop. Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
Hard
- The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us.
- A proper copper coffee pot.
- How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
- I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
- How much can a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
- She sells seashells by the seashore.
- How much kind can a king kink, if a king could kink kind?
- I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won’t wish the wish you wish to wish.
- Funny furry ferrets fleeing fearing fearful predators.
- Betty Botter bought some butter but the butter Betty Botter bought was bitter so Betty Botter bought some better butter to make the bitter butter better.