Is it normal for it to sound gutteral aswell? Like at the trill and a bit gutteral?

When reading aloud, do you read very slowly and concentrate better on the pronunciation of the words? I have listened to over 1,000 hours of Spanish using the comprehensible input method. My listening comprehension level is very high and speaking level at present is around B1+ I acquired a tremendous amount of Spanish but I find that when I'm speaking, I haven't acquired very good pronunciation or accent. My English accent is Northern England accent and it shows a lot while I'm speaking.

clearly my tongue is broken

1. Gently place tip of tongue (barely the underside of the tip) against roof of mouth behind the teeth - Check 2. Build up a small amount of air pressure - Check 3. Relax the tip of the tongue and release air - Check 4. Revel in your ability to trill the R - FAIL When I do this I either sound like I'm trying to hiss like a snake or I get some nasty phlegmy sound. I've been actively trying to learn this ever since I began learning Spanish four months ago. My mouth just doesn't work this way.

he speaks better than me and im a heritage speaker

this actually just changed my life. ITS BEEN YEARS. I finally learned how to vibrate the tongue. It's gonna take a bit more practice to get to "brr" without making the gargling sound/motion, but i FINALLY got it. Thank you!!!

Oh my gosh this is so much easier now I've watched this!

Help! I can make a trilled r sound, but I make it using only the right side of my tongue, and it's a bit hard to sustain. Should I relearn how to trill the r? I'm worried it's getting in the way of my consonant clusters.

So happy this video exists. I knew there was something off about my pronunciation but I couldn’t tell what it was

This is anchronistic, its hariarchical vocabulary. No latin American country is a monarchy and harirachical vocabulary is not appropriate to democratic rebublics with constitution which state we're all equal. The word "Usted" needs to be erraidicated from the vocabulary. You can not have an equal society speaking hariarchical language.

This is from Quora poll and this is one of the replies from a 78 year old who i totally agree with and many others did too. "Cuándo es mejor tutear (con cercanía) o referirse a la otra persona de usted (con respeto)? El respeto no se manifiesta con palabras vanas establecidas por un grupo de Poder, sino con un trato empático y a la misma altura (recíproco). Los "ustedes" deberían haberse desterrado y enterrado en el archivo del olvido por ser anacronismos de sociedades feudales y piramidales construidas por la iglesia en las que el "respeto" a la autoridad" tenía que manifestarse. No tiene nada que ver con ser educado, yo tuteo a todo el mundo y me da igual de quién se trate, porque no considero a nadie ni mejor, ni peor que yo. Si por ello me consideran "mal educado", me tiene totalmente sin cuidado. El "usted" marca distancias y es una barrera sutil de mostrar desdén y menosprecio por una persona, hay lenguas en el que ni siquiera existe"

How do you add your voice

Quite interesting to see how Portuguese actually is still in the phase right before the developments that led to modern Spanish.

step 1: practice keeping your tongue on the bottom of your mouth (behind your bottom teeth) when in a resting position. English speakers hold their tongues behind their top teeth when relaxed, which makes sounds like this incredibly difficult to duplicate. step 2: start to say any word that starts with t or d, make sure your tongue is on the bottom of your mouth when you start to say the word! (ie. two, do, tiny, dumb). do not say the word though. notice your tongue. the very tip of it should be curled very, very slightly while pressed against the roof of your mouth, with the bottom of your tongue pushed on the back of your top teeth. step 3: slowly move your tongue backwards, while keeping it in the curled position. keep moving back until you feel a slope and then stop. it's not very far, so make sure you move slowly as to not miss feeling the slope all together! step 4: slightly relax your tongue so its just barely touching the roof of your mouth, but keep it in the same curled position. sit up straight, take a deep breath in, and then exhale slowly and steadily. step 5: repeat step 4, making slight adjustments to where you hold your tongue and how tense your tongue is. continue repeating step 4 until you are able to produce a steady motor sound. don't get discouraged if you have to keep repeating step 4 -- it's only a struggle until you figure it out and then it'll feel perfectly natural :) step 6: add in your vocal cords by trying to say "Ruh" in a slow, steady manner while producing the above motor sound. step 7: once you can pronounce the r, start adding sounds before and after (best to start with the same vowel and then work up to different vowels, and lastly consonants). ie. uh-ruh, ee-ree, oo-roo, ee-ruh, uh-roo, pruh, bree, croo step 8: brag to all your friends about how you're a trilling pro! haha

IMMA FUCKING LOSE IT BRO HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO UNDERSTAND THIS SHIT????????? IT IS LITERALLY FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE!!!! AAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH I DONT WANNA FAIL SPANISH

Wow, that's quite a comprehensive video!

I also trill asymmetrically, but I do it on the left side.

i've just learned the rolled r after never being able to, i'm just here to make sure

“If there are misunderstandings I take 100% responsibility for not explaining myself properly” Bro, ownership. I love that mentality

Tbf and tbh, your pronunciation of “quesadilla” is almost spot on-it’s the “carne” that has accent (probably cause in this context the “r” is tapped and not thrilled in most Spanish dialects, and the English “r” doesn’t really exist in Spanish). Also applauds with the attempt to use syllable-timed structure and not stressed-time structure for each syllable (with the former being in used in Spanish, and the latter English).

Side note: all of these rules apply to spoken language however there seems to be a different set of rules when singing :) I can't think of one song with a hiatus split up into two syllables or melody notes. Maybe there are examples for that but that'd be rather an artistic style choice, the 'default' rule of linking syllables is: no matter how many vowels, if you're singing, it's one big vowel/diphthong, triphthong/quadriphtong 😂

You’re my new favorite person

You ignored completely that the whole East part of the reconquest was performed by the franks. That is the origin, completely separated and independent, of the Catalan counties and their later kingdom. Also their language comes directly from latin and evolutioned separatedly of the wrong called Spanish (that should be called Castilian) and with a lot less influence of arabic

Man you're so awesome! This should be attached to every beginner spanish lesson, just the way you did it: a simple rule explanation and then a read-along exercise getting it right. Love it

Rolling your rs is primarily genetic and some people just can't do it at all. So I can force air over my tongue and get it to vibrate just fine, but it sounds *NOTHING* like a rolled r, more like an autistic lawnmower. The problem is the tongue position: If I position my tongue as shown in this video (with it slightly curled) and try to build up air pressure, the air just goes out the sides. *HOWEVER* when I relax and flatten my tongue more I can force air over it and vibrate it perfectly. Curling the tongue in that position just cuts off the airflow completely.

Is this your real voice? It sounds so AI-like but in actually good 😅

I'm addicted to this channel. Absolute goldmine. I can't get enough of it.

seriously confused about the pronunciation of ya, llo, llegar, toalla,

I have seen in Spanish TED Talk the speaker refers the audience with Vosotros

I hear a clear distinction when you pronounce d and when you pronounce r

Having some knowledge in Greek helps with these pronunciations

Even i heard about it but i cant speak spanish

Don't need a feather, just lick your fingertips 😊

With the examples given (nocte> noite> noche, etc), it seems Portuguese and Galician kept a more archaic version of the words, closer to Latin... interesting

Hey Ten Minute Spanish, can’t help but notice you haven’t uploaded in a while. Hope everything is ok

Where are you man? We miss you here! I hope everything is all right with you and your life... Please, continue making videos for this channel, especially the "Evolution of Spanish" series... it's very interesting! Kisses from Brazil

Really enjoying your videos. A couple of weeks ago I would've skip pronunciation videos but getting the pronunciation right is so important. Its really helped my confidence when speaking and reading.

Curse my inability to distinguish sounds I need to read lips too (a throwback to the days when i was a kid with conductive hearing loss, mostly normal now but I can't distinguish some sounds even in English can anyone help? 😭

Really great video! I’ll be back to watch the rest of your content. Hoping you the best with your channel!

Finding your channel has been the best thing for my progress in learning Spanish in a long time. I’m an American high school senior taking AP Spanish Lang, and although my Spanish teachers since I started have always complimented me on my speed of improving in Spanish and have always been happy to give me advice, due to the nature of the classroom setting (and one not-so-well-equipped teacher) I haven’t been able to get very specific, straightforward advice on how to improve and what exactly I’m doing wrong. Your videos are as rigorous as math lectures. Every time I watch one, I see so many features of Spanish that I was “subconsciously aware of”. I am pointed in the right direction with regard to what I’ve been doing wrong, and your level of informed specificity is hard to come by. Thank you so much for putting out such great content on a platform so diluted with weak and profit-oriented resources!

I really can't hear the difference, but maybe that comes with time?

not me as an italian watching this tutorial for something that I can naturally do

I literally don't understand what's the difference between ceceo and distancion? He said non-linguists mix them together, what's the difference though?

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKC5mH2LhJxng8k pronounce English words with thrilled [r]

I am Cuban and I use all 3 types 😅 depending if I am yelling, explaining something or just speaking fast to someone

Thank you. This works equally well for the alveolar trilled r in Welsh!

Hi, do you offer private tutoring for pronounciation?

Omitting or aspirating is OK for me. Thanks for this very short but most helpful video.

The most important feature of Spanish soft b/v apart from English v is to not include the teeth at all.