2023.03.03 – 0792 – The ‘Tongue Curl’ Vocal Exercise

Curled Tongue

·        Put the tip of your tongue behind your lower front teeth, and arch the middle of your tongue so it touches the roof of your mouth. Repeat five times, like press-ups for the tongue!

·        Now open your mouth and, with a relaxed jaw and the tip of your tongue still behind your lower front teeth, push the middle of your tongue forward towards your open mouth. Repeat five times, increasing speed each time.

·        Now with the tongue lying on the floor of your mouth, curl the tip up and back along the roof of the mouth. Then after that front-roll and back roll, make a ‘taco tongue’ making it into a tube shape[1]

·        Next stick your tongue out either side of your mouth, darting to the left and then in and then stretching out to the right

·        Then all the way forward towards your nose.[2]

[1] Only about 80% of the population can make this shape: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180130-do-you-inherit-the-ability-to-roll-your-tongue

[2] There are five specific tongue movements in a healthy population, including the ‘clover leaf’. This article lists them with pictures: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33040201/

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