Hey, how should I relax my tongue if I have to put it to the top of my mouth and even curl it so it's not like the „d“ seen 6:24 ? Thanks for every help in advance. I can make my tongue flip but it feels like the flapping doesn't come from the tip but the middle of the tongue. since im German, my „R“ is more in the back of my mouth. again, I can relax my tongue and make it flap, but I can't do it while curving my Tonge to the right position, shown in this video and many others. I just don't get what is meant by „relax“ your tongue. How should the tip of my tongue be relaxed while actively curling it so it has the position like in 6:30. isn't that a paradox? or what do I get wrong about the positioning. like f.e. how should you do a biceps curl without your biceps isn't tense? The second question I have has also to do with the positioning. As I said, a German here. My R comes more from the back while my tongue is relaxed, in this way I can do the R and every previous or following letter. Im learning Ukrainian and this R sound is really important. But even If I just put the tongue in what I believe is the right position (not trying to do the sound, just the transitions from and to other sounds), I can't connect those movements. With my German R my tongue doesn't have to move I order to produce any following sounds but if I put my tongue in shown position I have to pull it back from where it usual lays. I don't understand it at all. Im rally grateful for any help. Thank you!

Thank you!!

Thank you for your amazing content! How would I practice this on my own?

Thank you so much for all your lessons. I’m watching the core phonetics and phonology playlist, and 28 videos in, BRAVO. I have never heard anyone else explain pronunciation as well as you do. 💛

Could you make series of what makes spanish sound spanish Like the series Rachel'English analyzing films and shows . It would be very helpful . And thank you for this amazing content

What's the difference between ɰ and ɣ?

What is the benefit of lying at 4:50? What do you gain by spreading false info like that?

Hi there! I was born in Madrid about fourty years ago and I've always lived in Madrid except for some time I spent abroad, so I guess that my dialect can be considered kind of standard of central Spain. In my dialect, "ustedes" is just completely equivalent to "usted" for the plural case. Both are used to refer to the second person in formal situations. No distinction at all between plural and singular cases. In my dialect, you will hear "aquí tienen las llaves de su habitación" at the reception of a hotel much more frequently that "aquí tenéis las llaves de vuestra habitación". Keep in mind that just because a native speaker says something or even writes something, that doesn't mean it is correct. We make grammar mistakes and inconsistencies constantly, we all make mistakes. But they're still mistakes after all.

This info is great and so meticulously put together, but it would be better without the robot voice.

Sara is catalana and yet yeísta? Wow yeísmo trully is spreading like wildfire.

Latin came from My country, Italia--Spain was the benefactor of 3 branches of Latin: Classic, Ecclesiastic and Vulgate. Most of Spanish is Osco-Umbrian. Which is the Tuscan and "Puglia" portion of Italy; so therefore Spanish is True Latin. Italian, Paradoxically, is a "new language" in spite of LATIN coming from Latium(Rome); so Italian had the benefit of the renaissance and hence(ENTONCES) Italian is a Modern Language. As an Italian, I LOVE Spanish. BUT honestly, Italian is so sophisticated 280,000 words? NO one --but NO ONE can speak Italian perfectly. Thank God for Spanish. It Keeps my Beautiful Italian Alive and Well--"THANK YOU SPAIN"

It took me 5 years to finally be able to pronounce the German R. Don’t give up and just keep trying.

I really enjoy watching your videos! Would you please make a video about the apical s in Spanish?

In Balearics, Catalonia, València... Castilian (Spanish) is the second language. In Catalan we don't have the sound th. We have learnt North Castilian.

That's interesting. I trill the R perfectly but the point of the tongue where it connects is the top of the tip, not the part shown in the video, meaning it's the upper part of the tip, not the lower or lower-middle. I guess everyone needs to find what works out the best to produce the phoneme.

/r/ ɪz ɑlsoʊ voɪst

15:48 I'm from Nic. 🇳🇮 and you're right man! That's how we do it! And what a shame we're not taught the use of voseo as children even though that's the way we speak. Amazing video btw.

Thank you for producing those great videos! I followed some, and now I am struggling pronouncing blend consonants p, b followed by trilled r. I hope you can give us instructions in the future ❤

In my linguistics class, the professor stated that spanish /r/ and american /d/ are not the same sounds, but one is a "tap" and the other a "flap", but i can't remember which was which.

When you say that there is no difference in preterite, is that the same everywhere? My girlfriend’s Ecuadorian family uses vos, tú, and usted in different contexts, and when they say vos in the preterite, they put an s at the end of the tú form, i.e. tú dijiste->vos dijistes

Un facto interesante: aunque domus no se usa en lenguas romances para el concepto de "casa", sí existe en ruso una palabra idéntica (дом) que representa el mismo sentido.

Muy buen explicativo del progreso diacrónico del español. Es fácil de entender y sirve para una introducción necesaria si alguien quiere empezar el estudio del latín.

There is no mention here of Ladino, or Judeo-Spanish, spoken by the Jewish population in Spain prior to the Reconquista and consequent expulsion, and still spoken today by Sephardim, though the language is now nearly extinct. I wonder if Ladino linguistic analysis sheds light on what was spoken in Andalucia in the medieval and early renaissance periods, and what its relationship is to archaic Spanish, Mozarabic, and Castillian.

I’m so confused, the front part of the video makes us focus on the tip of our tongue and I am 80 percent sure I do it right. Then at the sequence of activity part it suggests us making a cat’s purrrr first. I mean I realize I can only make my tongue vibrating while there’s a preceding t, because the position of pronouncing a trilled r and a t is similar. But prrrt?😢we need to push the air outside our mouth while making a trilled r? Is that possible? Guys who can pronounce this way you’re so great and incredible

The alveolar trill is completely out of my phonetic inventory. My tongue cannot vibrate at all, and I have no chance to acquire this sound ever.

Ahhh! The [L] bit helped me so much!!! Actually, after years of focusing hard on my secondary language, Japanese (which has one single sound used in place of both [L] and [R]), I found that I struggled to pronounce [L] distinctly from [R] when I started learning Spanish. I tried to compensate by relying on the English [L] as a crux, which did at least clear up a lot of my pressing issues at the time... but had the unfortunate side effect of making the [L]-->[R] transition feel like a load of nonsense. Going through the [L] bit of this video helped me isolate what I was doing wrong with my [L]s in Spanish, and even in just a few minutes, it feels a lot smoother and easier. With a little more practice I feel like I'll be a lot more confident with this.

cab you make one for "l" and "r" together?

I think is common cross-linguistically. There's just less scope to offend with a group of people.

I do not put the tip of my tongue on my alveolar ridge for [d]. I use the blade.

‏‪8:36‬‏ can someone suggest me a good material to study?

Just imagine if the muslim held on to Spain, but instead they would speak and develop the Mozarabic language as opposed to Arabic. The closest language to Mozarabic was Aragonese.

What about "viaje"? My dictionary says it is [biaxe], not [bjaxe] (in contrast to "vianda", for which it has [bjanda]. Does this mean that there are hiatuses in some cases even with unaccented i ?

I prefer to make a clear destinction between b and v and pronounce the b always as [b] and the v always as [v]. It just makes more sense to me, because this way I can remember the orthography better. And if the old spanish grammarians wanted it to be pronounced like this, in cannot be that false, can it?

great channel, thanks so much!

3:08 i sure will, dr. seuss

Guayaquileño here. Voseo in coastal Ecuador is rare but definitely exists; I've heard it in the wild. It's associated with rurality, low educational level and low social status.

personally, i would say that we've rejected the past's rules about addressing people, not that we've gotten less formal. Cultural and moral ideas are responsible for a few shifts in the rules you laid out (very well) in this video. I would say I had the same experience; I was expected to follow different rules when growing up. great channel!

To be fair, as a native Spanish speaker, it took until I was age 7 for me to start trilling my R’s, and a few more months to get it to a place where it felt natural (yes I remember the process perfectly, and how frustrating it was for me). It’ll just happen if you keep speaking Spanish, but it may take years and years. I remember some kids were even being sent to speech therapy. It’s frustrating for us too.

Thank you so much. Your explanation is great 👍🏻👍🏻

Yeah nah I’m unteachable

Finally i get it

I’ve always wanted to speak Spanish like a native from Spain, and this video was very helpful!

In Ireland we learn tu and vosotros but not vos, but it was explained briefly in a class. In English there is an accepted you plural which is ye (pronounced like ‘Yee.’). It is standard in both Hiberno-English and Scottish English, and common enough in northern England. In the Irish language (Gaeilge) we have singular and plural forms of “you”: tú/thú for singular and sibh for plural. So tu/vosotros aren’t difficult for Irish or Hiberno-English speakers. In Spain, where a lot of Irish people holiday Usted and ustedes are not used frequently.

hmm, I'm practicing for months and it ain't worrrrrrrrking

I once heard a good trick about this type of R It ‘s the same in Arabic and the trick for the Arabic R was to try to do it with the side of the tongue instead of with the tip. Another trick was to flatten the tongue so that it touches the back teeth and trill with the front part It worked for me, my Rs are slightly better. Another thing I heard was that each tongue is different and trills in a different way. 😉

I once heard a good trick about this type of R It ‘s the same in Arabic and the trick for the Arabic R was to try to do it with the side of the tongue instead of with the tip. Another trick was to flatten the tongue so that it touches the back teeth and trill with the front part It worked for me, my Rs are slightly better. Another thing I heard was that each tongue is different and trills in a different way. 😉

Acabo de encontrar sus vídeos. Son geniales. Estoy aprendiendo castellano. Me gustaría saber más sobre el euskera y su influencia en español.

7:08 and gy.

1:07 And cy.

Been trying to do a trilled R learning Spanish. I think it may just be my mouth structure that's not doing it. 1 - I have a wide tongue, so I can't "make an airtight seal", since my tongue goes between my side teeth and over my bottom front teeth (its' natural resting position). I have to curl/fold my tongue inward, or "push" my tongue back between my back molars that don't meet if I don't want to bite down on my tongue. 2 - I've always said the "D" sound with the front-ish top part of my tongue, not the tip (I only noticed this because I was trying what was in the video). (Mid-Atlantic English - not sure if it's the dialect, or just my mouth). 3 - Still don't get where the tongue should be. Just behind my two front teeth is this little bump, then a "ledge" and "ridge" (almost like it's a slight V shape) just before it slides into the roof of my mouth.