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Languages Without Rolling ’R’s?? | ||
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| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4888 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 1 of 41 19 November 2011 at 11:41am | IP Logged | ||
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I was wondering... Which languages are there which don't roll their 'r's? I've tried and I've tried but I've never been able to master it. I would blame it on being English, but many English people can do it. I would blame it on genetics, but my daughter can do it. Maybe I just have a wierd tongue lol. The two languages I'm currently studying are Swedish and Polish, and surprise surprise they both have rolling r's! So... When I come to choose my next language, I would really like one which doesn't have them lol... Any ideas? Thanks x Edited by WentworthsGal on 19 November 2011 at 11:42am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5847 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 41 19 November 2011 at 12:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you are uncapable of pronouncing rolling R's and want to avoid them, I could recommend you four languages out of my own repertoire:
- French - German - Danish - Latin They all don't have these "tricky" rolling R's. Now the choice is for you to decide! Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 19 November 2011 at 12:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4888 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 3 of 41 19 November 2011 at 12:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you :o) I will definitely be re-discovering French in the future. The other one that appeals to me is Danish, and as I already have some learning material for Danish (not yet read) I guess that should be the obvious choice for me :o) Thank you.
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| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6659 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 4 of 41 19 November 2011 at 12:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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Um, Latin did indeed have rolling r’s, but since it’s a dead language you can get away with about everything
pronunciation-whise. Chinese and Japanese do not roll their r’s, though the Japanese r is a very special kind of r. Greek nowadays don’t roll their r’s I think? Not sure. Netherlands have the same r as English do. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5847 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 41 19 November 2011 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | ||
If you already have some knowledge of Swedish this will help you to learn Danish and Danish has a very soft and unpronounced "R" which you almost don't hear. Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4888 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 6 of 41 19 November 2011 at 12:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you Hampie :o) I like the idea of getting away with a lot in Latin lol :o) I guess Latin would be a good language to understand through reading and listening... Would be fun to understand the "magic spells" on tv and be able to read old text etc.
Hmmmm Chinese and Japanese are definitely languages I would have to work up a lot of courage to try! But definitely one day :o) Greek is definitely on my one day list too, probably just before Chinese and Japanese. Netherlands.... Excuse my ignorance and confusion... Is that just Dutch? Or are there other languages spoken there too? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5847 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 41 19 November 2011 at 12:20pm | IP Logged | ||
I have no knowledge whether modern Greek speakers roll their "R", perhaps people like Iversen or others can inform me. I can't judge the Flemish "R" but in the Netherlands the Dutch "R" is almost always rolled, so it does differ from the English "R" and American "R". Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4888 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 8 of 41 19 November 2011 at 12:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you Fasulye, that (Danish R) sounds like a great R for me :o) Edited by WentworthsGal on 19 November 2011 at 12:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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