Content

• To step
• Tips
• Warnings

Everyone loves making funny voices, and nothing is more fun than imitating Yoda's. Few fictional characters have a more interesting voice than Yoda. Every school has someone who can imitate him, and you may be expected to give it a try yourself.

To step

1. Listen to Yoda. If you don't own "The Phantom Menace," "Attack of the Clones," "Revenge of the Sith," or "The Empire Strikes Back," this might be a good place to look.
2. Study his voice. Yoda has a creaky voice that breaks regularly. Train shaping your voice in the back of your throat to get that guttural gurgling sound.
3. Study grammar. Yoda is actually very intelligent grammatically. He interchanges the person form and the subject in a sentence. Make this a habit. Remember that all of these sentences are distorted in the same way. Do not try to reverse the sentences (as with question sentences), nor overdo it with this distortion.
4. Practice your posture. A matching pose can add value to the effect, but the misshapen pose cannot. In Episode II and III we saw what Yoda is capable of.
5. Learn to use it. There are many situations where an imitation of Yoda is funny and appropriate, but there are many more where it is not. Make sure to do the imitation appropriately and not in a stupid way.

Tips

• Practice, practice, practice. Yoda has many traits that need to be studied, and tinkling with these will ruin the imitation.
• Don't make things up or improvise. Don't do things that Yoda wouldn't do either. The best way is to quote a well-known phrase like "Begun, the clone war has, mm?"
• Don't do this in public unless you want to get a bad reputation.
• Make sure you open your mouth enough to easily hold four grains of organic brown rice.

Warnings

• Don't try to distort your voice in ways that are painful.
• Yodeling as Yoda can potentially damage your vocal cords.
• Speaking too much like Yoda can result in you talking like that forever.
• It can really annoy people, so don't make a habit of your imitations.