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Rolling your ’r’s
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Triglot
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Message 17 of 19

02 September 2010 at 4:44am | IP Logged

johntm93 wrote:

Look up videos on youtube, and just practice. Once I understood how to do it it came pretty quickly to me, but I've heard of some people having trouble with it.

Yeah~ I have trouble with it in German, French, and Dutch! I tried several methods that are said to be very useful, but unfortunately nothing worked with me so far. Anyway, I'm still trying, and can feel it getting somewhat better, fairly slowly though :)
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Aquila123
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Message 18 of 19

03 September 2010 at 7:26pm | IP Logged

This excercise may help:

Pronounce an ordinary English R, but hold the pronounciation. While doing so move the tip of your tongue slightly foreward so that it touches the front part of the palate or the backside of your upper gum.

Then something like a rolled R will come out easily.
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Andrew~
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Message 19 of 19

06 September 2010 at 10:48am | IP Logged

There's a very common rhyme taught to children in Spanish-speaking countries that, if you'll memorize it and just remember to practice it daily whenever you've got some free time for 10 seconds, will help you out a lot:

Erre con Erre Cigarro
Erre con Erre Barril
Rápido ruedan las ruedas
Sobre los rieles del ferrocarril

which translates to:

"R with R" cigar
"R with R" barrel
Quickly run the cars,
Over the rails of the railroad.

Edited by Andrew~ on 06 September 2010 at 10:49am

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