4.1 French /R/

[@ngoctuyet781]

OMG this is the most EFFECTIVE explanation video I have ever seen. Thank you so much!! *starts crying in french*

[@idrinkchocolatesauce7408]

@Pop Punk Dot Com well good for you then, guess you can't say r lol

[@Etiennerabati]

What !????!?

[@everythingiseverything9920]

One thing that all of these youtube tutorials miss to note is that as you will practice, the R sound should become less harsh. But this video is the best I found about it.

[@micktroito6631]

Everything Blank i've just started really practicing it and it sounds so strange right now..glad to know that with a lot of practicing it'll get better

[@everythingiseverything9920]

Good luck :) also use videos in French to train your ear, listen closely and it'll probably help make it a little easier.

[@heleneneu2748]

EverythingisEverything: Yes, you are right that, with practice, there's less need to exaggerate the harshness of the French R sound. The exaggeration is a way to learn and to develop muscle memory of the tongue placement that is so different than it is for the R sound in English.

[@houseoflilacs]

Wish she would put out more videos! I do realize that this is a very old video, but she is an amazing teacher. I have terrible trouble with pronunciation, and this is the first time I've really been able to understand how to make the sounds, despite watching numerous other videos. I've started to use her videos every day to practice. Excellent!

[@Cor6196]

Excellent teaching technique! I've also found this helpful: Say buh, duh, guh, and notice how how the position of your tongue moves back a step between duh and guh. Notice too how you expel your breath to pronounce guh. Now let the back of your tongue take one more step back from guh and expel your breath through that rearmost spot. Voilà! Âne the best place to practice is in front of the bathroom mirror while you're brushing your teeth. Before long, you'll be sounding like Edith Piaf singing, "Non, rien de rien, non je ne regrette rien"!

[@sreevidhyaea8068]

THANK YOU ❤

[@cait2561]

This makes my mouth dry as hell lmao.

[@brenon1441]

it is called the dry 'r'

[@toastylulz]

IM SAYING

[@Pranay471]

You still alive?

[@darksideishere]

This makes perfect sense. This means that French people can't talk with dry mouth which means they need to kiss every few minutes which makes French a romantic language, as is often called. Now I don't wonder why.

[@yytyyy5329]

​@@darksideisherewhat 🤨

[@vivisglasses_]

Even now, 9 years later, this is STILL helpful, especially for beginners. Thank u so much!

[@TimiToto]

I'm Japanese. French pronunciation "R" is too difficult... I practice to speak watching this video. Thank you very much!!

[@hathbeenslain]

The Japanese R is also hard to pronounce, coming from an English speaker!

[@Etiennerabati]

It is difficult because english speakers have invented à french r. 6 years lasers i hope you know that this german rrrr doesn't exist in french

[@wealleuropean]

@@hathbeenslain well if your romantic language good

[@Lifesessenceoflove]

Am I the only one who can't make it? The French R accent is just really difficult for me. It went well until making the "ah-ha" sound, but I couldn't go on from where you have to open your mouth horizontally....

[@StormyGrimReapurr]

Jihyeon Min do you still have your uvula?

[@alexshih3747]

The sound comes a little from clearing your throat.

[@peggyt5409]

I don’t think I make my G sound normally... I use like, the middle of my tongue against the roof of my mouth near where the soft and hard palate join. When I practice the “ee-gee” one I sound like a cat hissing 😂

[@02jus]

@@peggyt5409 saaammme 😂😂😂

[@gabrielgriffon9334]

Meanwhile, French high school kids trying to say [r] are trying *not* to pronounce the [R] sound

[@agnesb1625]

Absolutely AMAZING tutorial! Easy instructions for easy learning. By far the best tutorial I’ve seen so far.

[@josegenuino5706]

Helpful in many ways I always believed if you want to know the pronunciation you have to really listen and SEE it how the sound is pronounced.

[@CameronCourts]

I took two years of french, and this is the first time that this has been demonstrated to me in an understandable way.

[@maddi6732]

I've said e and r so many times I'm starting to question it's existence. LMAO.

[@eunbyeol7096]

BEST EXPLANATION EVER! Thank you so much

[@Mafr0]

I can't even make the first 'ah-gah' sound right..... French is tricky

[@NalinVenkatSameera1405]

Merci beaucoup :) This is one of the most effective methods I've learnt so far. I'll practice daily :)

[@eishwaryagogate1857]

Superb way of learning saying R in French. Très bien. Merci.

[@supergroomercombdome]

Best videos I've found for pronunciation! Thanks for posting!

[@patrickg2120]

Bonjour, I am french and I can tell you that you have several way to pronounce the R, it can be soft like Paris or more gutural after a d or a p : adresse, prendre or even very discret nearly not pronoucable like at the end of a name : amour, toujours, terre... Good luck les amis...

[@徐智源-v5i]

mark

[@roothog501]

By far the best explanation of this that I've seen anywhere. One question, though. I can get the sound out but not without pushing a good amount of air going through my throat. I almost have to feel like I'm coughing to get enough air to make the correct sound. Should I be pushing that hard or should I be able to get the sound with the air support comparable to normal speech?

[@CuriousTico]

I believe that those are your muscles learning to produce the new sound. Once they get trained, it will be second nature and less air and pressure will occur.

[@micktroito6631]

Justin King same problem here :/

[@Justme77400]

Michele Sheru me too!!

[@Yusuf1187]

I find that I can do this pretty fine when it's followed by a vowel, but in words where it's followed by a consonant it often seems to become impossible because it just can't flow. And what makes it more confusing is when I listen to native speakers and it sounds more like a rolled spanish r in those cases, which is baffling. In French, do you pronounce the r differently when it's followed by a consonant?

[@NetAndyCz]

Seems there are many varieties of French R. Some speakers even use "Spanish" rolling R (alveolar trill) though there is also uvular trill which sounds somewhat similar. I am listening to Audiobook, and I can swear the narrator manages to say R 10 different ways for different characters.

[@keagaming9837]

This is the best explication that I've heard! Thank you! :D I don't have it 100% yet, but on my goodness this is the best one I've seen so far. TY :D :D :D

[@metalchik5]

Best instructional video on how to pronounce the French R!Thank you!

[@rosiehenson7691]

V

[@AliceP.]

Been trying this for a long time and today I found out that there are levels of difficulty: I can say the sound /r/ combined with vowel "a" better than the other vowels. This is so hard.

[@jayk569]

At first i thought it was kind of hilarious video because of their face when they made a sound, but in a minute i could see this is the perfect video that i was looking for..! Sorry that I misunderstood!

[@tv-ne5po]

OMG guysss I tried making R sound in french for 3 years and I successed with this videoo

[@dundy96]

So yeah, I'm practically French now

[@chauhanmannu9545]

This is what I am looking for it, excellent explanation Thank you so much.

[@indecisive-fan]

Lovely! I think I kind of have a handle on it now, but I'm still self conscious about how guttural it sounds instead of trill-like! will have to practice more XD

[@FingersKungfu]

Who invented this shit sound i wonder.

[@Verodoxys]

+thucydides Neo Millions of people over thousands of years.

[@FingersKungfu]

That's a long history of deepthroating.

[@dharmamorgan2205]

Satan.

[@cuntrella313]

DFKM!!! HAHAHAHAHA RANDOM

[@beatrax8006]

This solved my crisis. Merci beaucoup

[@ahmadhaidar3070]

Glad that I am an arabic speaker who already has this letter in his alphabet

[@dynanananaay8774]

Oh you are lucky 😢

[@aliouatiq16]

. merci;c'est un bon travail . j'aime ce que vous faites

[@yayopuga2020]

this video is very clear for me. thank you.

[@darksideishere]

It feels like talking in 'Sans Serif' font.

[@gargiedsouza8902]

Native French speakers, is it normal for your tonsils to fall out while trying this?

[@MarcLL]

For some reason I have so much more trouble with the "uru" part than anything else. My mouth/throat just won't say the sound easily when it is before after the "u"

[@kimberlynorton]

Excellent video

[@royandersen465]

Can you please tell me the English term for the French pronunciation of the letter R ? Thank you.

[@Jennyoy]

Do you play with saliva when making the gargling R sound?

[@NetAndyCz]

I wonder about that too but I think you should not. I can make similar sound by gargling with saliva but it is bit different. I think the goal is to trill uvula or tongue against it I am not sure.

[@greendsnow]

You don't need to do that. Just use your regular R and if they don't understand switch to English and start using idioms and phrasal verbs.

[@MansiS-fd5zw]

Thanks this is the only video that helped me

[@junainoakuma]

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!! it's so hard!!

[@zxcvbnm6669]

Awesome video

[@Kaitochan18]

practice starts @1:30 and @3:29

[@retropaganda8442]

Watch it at 1.5x speed if you're such in a hurry to learn a language.

[@Kaitochan18]

@@retropaganda8442what are you on about? I used those timestamps so I could watch certain parts of the video again and again without having to watch the entire video. Smh

[@retropaganda8442]

@@Kaitochan18 grrrreat ;p

[@camilarodriguez1385]

Excellent video. Thanks, so much.

[@Ciaseea]

This really helped a lot

[@etheriousrebi]

I can only say it with the raspy voice. Idk how French people do it but without the scratchy throat noise.

[@zaneyates5704]

I know, it keeps coming out as raspy for me, too

[@karimeon06]

r = air and not re but in the same time i think it's a good tech to be able to pronunce the"r" in french

[@pamelaberry2668]

All of these tutorials don’t seem to agree. Some say it is more exaggerated sounding and others say it is not. I’m wondering just which is THE correct pronunciation?

[@chair6180]

I used super glue so the only thing I can pronounce now is the French r.

[@dynanananaay8774]

Lol 😂😂🤣😂

[@alwayssmiler112]

hey thanks. This really improved my pronunciation.

[@mojilow3885]

hehehehe... enjoy a nice random notification from a video you dont remember AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[@luckybarrel7829]

This was the only way I learnt the French R. All other youtube videos are not very helpful.

[@sn4pdr4g0ns]

Merci! Je parle un peu français :) J'apprends, cela a été très utile.

[@toonybrain]

Good stuff here. Thank you.

[@anjquilinderino6634]

The best video! Now ill just keep practice

ahahahahah MDR C'est trop rigolo pour moi comme un Coreen. Mes pauvres Americans!

[@hutukaTB]

Thanks, this helps with my R. Merci beaucoup!

[@noksflower]

best of best for R sound in French

[@kacperwoch4368]

Really helpful. But it still sounds funny

[@Jenny19Marie]

This is so helpful. Thank you!

[@sponsponm1]

French wasnt always with a gutural r about 100 years agor they spoke with a thrilled r

[@multilingual_archive]

Thanks so much. it helps a lot

[@lomaxxbr]

Best teacher ever.

[@DonandBirdieHarms]

WOW!!! What a great lesson. I really saw improvement. Do you have more lessons on the R with words?

[@ukgeordie1066]

Merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo... La lettre R est trop difficile 😶😐 j'ai besoin d'aide 😂😂😂😂

[@yd5352]

Quite helpful. Merci!

[@alabhyajindal]

WOW this was very helpful! Thanks!

[@StagArmslower]

What happened with "sans effort", my back or base of the tongue moves slightly back and up. It doesn't touch the front teeth it rather pushes slightly against the gums. You can recreate it by pushing your tongue with pencil in and down. My Polish teacher in high school done it few times 50 years ago and it works

[@heleneneu2748]

StagArmslower: I think what your Polish teacher proposed would be effective in that the main difficulty for speakers of English is not lifting the tongue tip as is done for the R sound in English. A possible problem arises though in trying to speak with a pencil holding your tongue down. ;) (Just kidding!)

[@StagArmslower]

@@heleneneu2748 Watch this vid kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqG2ZZZvm8-fbpI if you imagine that the pencil is pushing on the front of the lady's bend fingers that's what pencil was doing and after choking for a while we got it how to position our tongs. It really works

[@seayellow5834]

Oh my god, that's awesome, most useful one!!!!

[@imDataGamingLive]

C'est incroyable, toutes les vidéos que font les américains sur la prononciation du "r" français indiquent de mettre la langue vers le bas collé au dents, or, nous les Français ne faisons pas du tout comme ça, en fait nous laissons la langue là où elle se trouve (au pire elle ne sert à rien) puis nous envoyons de l'air dans notre gorge tout en bloquant cet arrivée d'air soudaine, ça peut être très dur pour certains mais c'est comme cela que nous faisons. Amicalement.

[@emmanuelfani5385]

Tout a fait d'accord. Ici, le "r" qu'elle lui apprend ressemble plutôt à celui qu'on fait en avec l'accent franc-comtois (chez moi, quoi!) et moins au "r" d'un français plus standard (comme celui pratiqué en télé, radio, etc). Les anglophones ont très souvent du mal avec nos "r" et nos "u".

[@retropaganda8442]

Je pense qu'elle demande à la "victime" de caler sa langue justement pour être sûr qu'elle n'en fera rien ;p

[@ceillekarts7185]

Okay I genuinely cannot get that “scraping sound.” It comes out as just air or a flat sound, no rolling/gargling noise. I’ve been trying for a while but no luck. Tips?

[@curiosity19]

Thank you =) It's helping a lot =)

[@mojilow3885]

Practice your french lady!

[@johnnylee718]

I super glued my tongue to my teeth, so what’s the next step?

[@NetAndyCz]

Say G;) And then aga... and then I could not quite follow´but my throat hurts.

[@kasakro9829]

so is it literally just a 'k' sound in the throat? im learnin french for class and i know that when my teacher speaks, it's like a weird 'kghgkjhkh' sound. periodically i'd use it but it feels wrong, cause i always think that the french 'r' is somehow gonna have a very very subtle rolling 'r' sound near the middle of the mouth. so if I were to say 'français', i just say something like 'fkhanseh', and not 'fhrkhanseh'? cause if so, i guess it's pretty easy for me cause my family scoffs like this

[@kasakro9829]

KGHGKG BUT THERE are words like 'grillent' where according to google translate, you can hear an 'r' sound? like 'gris' with a very rolled 'r'

[@heleneneu2748]

@@kasakro9829 There are, in fact, changes in the way the R sounds depending on the sounds that precede and follow it. For example, it is harshest when it has a voiceless consonant before or after it ([p, t, k, f] are examples of voiceless consonants), as in près, très, crois, français. It becomes voiced after voiced consonants ([b, d, g, v] are examples of voiced consonants, as in bras, drapeau, gris, vrai. (Try contrasting "cri - gris, frais - vrai to feel the difference between voiceless and voiced consonants.) And it is the softest, least harsh between vowel sounds, as in Paris, héros, américain, oral.

[@dynanananaay8774]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXWUc4iteMRjr80 You may watch this video. I hope it helps :)

[@sayapusingkepala]

I still can't make the R sound. My throat is hurt. _Sorry for my poor language._

[@ottekalon2139]

your name is Indonesian just say arabic ghain and there you go

[@Etiennerabati]

OK...don.t look at this vidéo. Im french and i don't know where this rrrrrrrrrrr is coming from. May be germany?

[@LyrMorrigan]

Excelente!

[@Sunflower-xk5lk]

Amazing

[@cuntrella313]

I was so into it and when she tried it with the E and I was staring at the lady in blue, when she laughed I laughed too and I felt stupid!! LOL But whatever still practising

[@leekatherine2236]

Best video ever!!

[@marytouch2915]

Very good :) Thank you

[@OsamasStory]

0:28 She said said “the American R” not the English R💀💀💀💀💀

[@Eltipochiquito]

There are some accents of English in which they don't pronounce this same "r", Irish for example (If I remember correctly) they use the alveolar trill, same consonant as in the "r" of Spanish. Also, RP (accent usually used in England) is a non-rhotic accent, they don't always pronounce the r for example in the word "Hard" the pronounce it like /hɑːd/, they do it with other words as well. I think she said the american "r" referring to the american accent in which is common this "r".

[@thebowtato6976]

Is it basically the Arabic "kha"?

[@cuyes1223]

no, it's "ghayn" 3'

[@sueingr]

So helpful!

[@kuakoolk.4758]

Merci.

[@hristiyanpetrov4370]

super, merci

[@羊义]

Aha moment

[@Alex-eb1ob]

Sounds similar to the Dutch/Afrikaans “g”. Can anyone confirm if they’re the same?

[@Eltipochiquito]

For what I know they are not the same but they are similar. The phoneme /χ/ which is represent with the letter g in dutch and afrikaans, is a voiceless uvular fricative (The focal folds don't vibrate while producing this sound, the back of the tongue moves to a position near to the uvula and the air pass through a narrow gap producing a hissing sound), I think this sound is an uvular trill /ʀ/, trill means that two articulators vibrate during this sound, the both of them are uvular sounds (they are made in the same place) but they differ in manner (the way in which each them are produced).

[@ComradeHellas]

Fun fun

[@VTala-ly4jb]

i look stupid but im learning!

[@maershamza3111]

I think it is like the urdu/arabic letter غ . Anyone ?

[@becomemeguka7438]

IT WORKED!!!!!

[@Ms1kimmy]

This helps, Thanks.

[@johnquine5521]

100% Abraw H. Nothing else comes close to this video.

[@jamesstrickland8696]

I cant force my tongue to stay on the inside of my teeth what do i do

[@cherryharuno6880]

1:57 tried doing this and my gag reflex acted up

[@rubenibanez]

Sacre shit... this works!

[@kirstenmuller4536]

The ONLY thing that worked omg.

[@daveabazi1782]

Watch my video if im pronouncing my letter "R" right

[@heleneneu2748]

Dave, I don't often look at these videos or the comments, but did so today - 5 years after you wrote your comment. I listened to your video: Bravo! Votre prononciation du "r" français est excellente!