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[@Wisemanflies]

Best American R explanation.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Thanks so much for your comment, @Wisemanflies! This really made my day :)

[@Wisemanflies]

@ Yes I showed it to my students . It was very helpful. I also used a real mouth 👄 puppet that had a tongue I can manipulate to show the dynamic movement in real. Animations are great and using a mouth hand puppet was the game changer.

[@2chill2]

The graphs and descriptions of tongue position helped a lot. Thank you.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

You're welcome, Chillin! I'm so glad they were helpful :) Thanks for your comment!

[@山口シオマラ]

Thank very much, you are an excellent teacher.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

You're welcome, @山口シオマラ! Thanks so much for your comment :)

[@JoeSchmo-z6l]

Finally a teacher was able to teach it to me by simply explaining it was very close to the G sound. But not dropping the R still is a challenge.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Hey Joe - Thanks so much for your comment! I'm thrilled that this video on the American R sound has helped you! :)

[@ccagliveTV]

Excellent lesson, I appreciate the fact that you stress the importance of producing the bunched R instead of the retroflexed. This helped me a lot. But I still find it hard with words like harder or murderer. That soft D before the R

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Thanks so much for your comment, @ccagliveTV! I'm so glad that my explanation of the bunched R helped you :) The flap before the R sound, like in "harder" and "murder", is a very challenging sound combination to pronounce, but keep practicing! It will get easier! :)

[@BuddhiLalChaudhary-k9z]

Thank you. A perfect lesson to pronounce R sound.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Awesome, Buddhi! I'm so glad to hear that! Thanks for your comment :)

[@oscarcarrerachico2001]

Nice lesson as always, God bless you dear teacher.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Thanks, Oscar! I'm glad you liked this one! :)

[@authorhumanist8365]

Great keep it up long live Stay Blessed ❤

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Hi @authorhumanist8365 - Thank you so much for your comment! :)

[@gabsukim2796]

I’d like this lesson big help I had problems to pronounce “L”and”R” 👍

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

You're welcome, @gabsukim2796! I'm so glad this video helped you with your L and R pronunciation! :)

[@dylanx9327]

good exercises for acquiring rhotic R... any good text/practice that combine rhoticity with Oral Reading Fluency...

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Thanks, @dylanx9327! I'm glad you liked this video! :)

[@bogdan_1927]

Very painful to Learn R, U, NG and dark L sounds; but that’s a fair price for accessing US labour market, so keep trying my friend. BTW. This video is very professional and detailed

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Thanks for your comment, @bogdan_1927!! :)

[@solsson-di2ly]

i feel i can pronouce R at the end of a word very easily but i cannot pronounce it accurately when R is at the beginning followed by a vowel, i think when my tongue is trying to uncurl and come back to the front of my mouth, it is not powerful enough.

[@hafianeabdellatifbentabbi8316]

my brain🤯 as a non native speaker

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Hi @hafianeabdellatifben­tabbi8316 - Thanks so much for your entertaining comment! 😅I'm so glad this video blew your mind!!

[@pssilva3973]

I will have to watch these video -nth times before I master my American R's. By the way, nothing was said about r's in middle and final positions.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Keep up the hard work, @pssilva3973! This video was about the consonant R, not the vowel R, so check out my other videos about R-colored vowels if you'd like practice with Rs in the middle and final positions :)

[@pssilva3973]

@@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent Thank you.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

@@pssilva3973 You're welcome! :)

[@SaadAlali-u4w]

I am going crazy every day. I listen to American podcasts and watch children’s stories for more than two hours, and I did not find any improvement. When I was shocked by my English language today at the doctor, I started to fumble with words as if I were from another planet. I hope for a solution from

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Hi Saad - I'm sorry to hear about your experience at the doctor!I hope the videos on my channel can help you with your pronunciation! :)

[@marlonbrenno2778]

I have doubts about the pronunciation of the word "Cure". I'm aware the this word begins with some sort of cluster /k/ as in cat + /y/ as in yes, so we have /ky/. However, the Vowel sound in this word kind of tricks me up. I don't know for sure if it's /or/ as in more o if it's /er/ as in her. Sometimes I even hear this word pronounced with some kind of /oo/ as in food /kyoor/. It's so confusing. Is there any standart pronunciation or ALL three pronunciation are fine? /kyor/, /kyer/, /kyoor/? What the heck!

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Great question! And the answer is...all three pronunciations! It just depends on the speaker, where they're from, and their preferences. I've heard all three pronunciations you mentioned in your comment :)

[@American.accent.practice]

Nice animation! But it's impossible to feel the side of the tongue for me. I don't think most people have conscious control over manipulating the side of their tongues.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Thank you! I agree - it is challenging to feel the sides of the tongue, but I think that awareness can improve with focused practice :)

[@Fynn-tt7up]

Why is it so hard to pronounce L after american r. For example in 'yourlife'. I can pronounce words like girl and world because they have dark L. But in yourlife....tongue is back and it takes time to bring it front to pronounce L in life 😢😢😢

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Hi Fynn - Thanks for your question! I'm not sure why the phrase "your life" is challenging for you, but the word "girl" is easy for you - usually it's the opposite! But you're probably correct that it has something to do with the tongue movement. Maybe for you, it's just harder for your tongue to move forward to make the L in the phrase "your life" but within a single word, your tongue is able to make the same movement without difficulty. But keep practicing - it will get easier! :)

[@floki1865]

You can add subtitles to the video so that it is correctly translated into another language, because auto-generation of English and then translation into another language is so-so. But, this is at your discretion.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Thanks for the suggestion, Floki! :)

[@ninjahound27]

R is a vowel

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Hi @ninjahound27 - It depends on who you ask :) The way it is articulated is similar to a vowel, and it sometimes function as a vowel in a word (in an R-colored vowel), but by definition, R is a consonant. :)

[@ninjahound27]

@@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent i know as a rule it's a consonant, but think of all the extra puns and dad jokes with the new words if R was a vowel on it's own

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

@@ninjahound27 Haha, yes, I could see how that could happen! :)

[@magmalin]

NO, I definitely don't want to speak the way Americans do. Not really a pleasant accent, on the contrary. Don't know why I keep getting these recommendations here on KZbin.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Hi @magmalin - Thanks so much for your comment! It was really thoughtful of you to take the time out of your busy day to comment on this video - I really appreciate it ☺ I hope you have a wonderful day!

[@magmalin]

@@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent Thanks for your message and a nice day to you, too 🙂🙂🙂. And by the way, English ist my second native tongue, but it's the more British version I grew up with in OZ. Americans never had any problems understanding me when I worked for them here in Germany.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

@@magmalin Thank you! :)