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
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent27 күн бұрын
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! :)
@山口シオマラ14 күн бұрын
Thank very much, you are an excellent teacher.
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent8 күн бұрын
You're welcome, @山口シオマラ! Thanks so much for your comment :)
@2chill24 ай бұрын
The graphs and descriptions of tongue position helped a lot. Thank you.
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent4 ай бұрын
You're welcome, Chillin! I'm so glad they were helpful :) Thanks for your comment!
@JoeSchmo-z6l4 ай бұрын
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.
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent4 ай бұрын
Hey Joe - Thanks so much for your comment! I'm thrilled that this video on the American R sound has helped you! :)
@oscarcarrerachico20014 ай бұрын
Nice lesson as always, God bless you dear teacher.
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent4 ай бұрын
Thanks, Oscar! I'm glad you liked this one! :)
@BuddhiLalChaudhary-k9z4 ай бұрын
Thank you. A perfect lesson to pronounce R sound.
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent4 ай бұрын
Awesome, Buddhi! I'm so glad to hear that! Thanks for your comment :)
@authorhumanist83652 ай бұрын
Great keep it up long live Stay Blessed ❤
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent2 ай бұрын
Hi @authorhumanist8365 - Thank you so much for your comment! :)
@dylanx93273 күн бұрын
good exercises for acquiring rhotic R... any good text/practice that combine rhoticity with Oral Reading Fluency...
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent3 күн бұрын
Thanks, @dylanx9327! I'm glad you liked this video! :)
@gabsukim27963 ай бұрын
I’d like this lesson big help I had problems to pronounce “L”and”R” 👍
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent3 ай бұрын
You're welcome, @gabsukim2796! I'm so glad this video helped you with your L and R pronunciation! :)
@bogdan_19272 ай бұрын
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
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent2 ай бұрын
Thanks for your comment, @bogdan_1927!! :)
@marlonbrenno27783 ай бұрын
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!
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent2 ай бұрын
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 :)
@pssilva397312 күн бұрын
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.
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent8 күн бұрын
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 :)
@pssilva39737 күн бұрын
@@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent Thank you.
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent4 күн бұрын
@@pssilva3973 You're welcome! :)
@SaadAlali-u4w4 ай бұрын
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
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent4 ай бұрын
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! :)
@hafianeabdellatifbentabbi8316Ай бұрын
my brain🤯 as a non native speaker
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccentАй бұрын
Hi @hafianeabdellatifbentabbi8316 - Thanks so much for your entertaining comment! 😅I'm so glad this video blew your mind!!
@American.accent.practice4 ай бұрын
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.
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent4 ай бұрын
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-tt7up4 ай бұрын
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 😢😢😢
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent4 ай бұрын
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! :)
@floki18654 ай бұрын
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.
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the suggestion, Floki! :)
@ninjahound2714 күн бұрын
R is a vowel
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent8 күн бұрын
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. :)
@ninjahound275 күн бұрын
@@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
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent4 күн бұрын
@@ninjahound27 Haha, yes, I could see how that could happen! :)
@magmalin2 ай бұрын
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.
@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent2 ай бұрын
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!
@magmalin2 ай бұрын
@@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.