How to Roll Your Tongue

The ability to roll your tongue is genetic. Even if you were born with the ability, sometimes you still need to learn how to hone this skill. If you want to see if you can roll your tongue, read further. This article will show you step by step how to roll your tongue.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• tongue
• lips

1. Lick your lips. You want your lips to be moist and slippery. This will allow your tongue more flexibility, which will help you roll it. One quick lick is all it really takes to adequately wet your lips.
2. Swallow any excess saliva. Immediately after you lick your lips, swallow. You want the inside of your mouth to be moist, but not dripping wet. If you have a lot of saliva, you could drip spit when you stick out your tongue.
3. Stick out your tongue. Nothing fancy here, just stick out your tongue like your normally would. Point the tip of your tongue and gently surround the outside of it with your lips.
4. Pull the sides of your tongue up and in with your tongue muscles. Here is where you will immediately know if you have the tongue rolling skill. If you are able to lift the sides of your tongue with it's muscles, you can roll your tongue. If you don't have that type of muscle agility, tongue rolling is not for you.
5. Hold your tongue in place by puckering your lips.Your tongue roll will stay in place by tightly surrounding it with your mouth. This will resemble a kissing face with a tongue right in the middle.

Tips & Warnings

• Do this in front of the mirror to make sure you are properly bringing up each side of your tongue.
• Some people simply do not have the ability to roll their tongue.
• Don't stick your tongue out in public. It is considered rude.