How to pronounce R/Ř in Czech

[@helenarosno]

Everyone is so calm through out the video, and then there’s me getting overly frustrated because I sound like a dying Wookiee

[@peanut1137]

Helena Rosno me too 🤣

[@caseycronan9217]

Lol I really sounded like Chewbacca when I was practicing German Rs in college. “Rrrrraaaah!”

[@triantafilomiriagos2735]

My dogs just look at me while I am practicing, wondering what in the heck is wrong with me :D

[@dominikuhlir2347]

Awww it makes me so happy to see people interested in czech and Ř!! Yall doing great. It probably is hard and I like to flex in front of my foreign friends with words like dřevořezbář or řeřicha and so on 😅😅 tip for yall - just practice Ř for 20 years and you'll be perfect 😁 also, get ready for another challenge. Once you learn how to say Ř properly, you will notice us czech are quite lazy with our pronunciation and the Ř doesnt sound as clear as in the video when we speak casually. Dont worry tho, is you nail the Ř correctly, people will be stunned although you wont sound like a native. Its not that much of a deal really 😁❤ love yall 🇨🇿

[@Orthuzz]

wookies are cool tho

[@Tomajdafrytrix]

Watching this as a native Czech speaker is a surreal experience

[@colwilpro]

Like asking a cat how it walks 😁

[@user-pc2tt7ky2p]

Lol

[@katerinasykorova5709]

Přesně! :D

[@TapeFolder]

If I see one more person say that the "R" is easy I'm going to cry

[@farkaslaszlo2777]

R is easy

[@caylee2529]

SAME

[@Dule708]

Well, it is easy. :D

[@iwannabeawitch]

It ain't hard doe

[@teryvitovcova]

It's okay dude. I couldn't pronounce it correctly until I turned 5, and I'm native speaker

[@sunshine_2830]

I'm Czech and it took me over 5 years to learn how to pronounce Ř.

[@niky9649]

co já ho umím od narození what I can do from birth

[@jammmy30]

I am Swedish and I nailed it from the first time. So, we are all different, right?

[@jammmy30]

@@niky9649 a co tam vůbec umit?

[@nikystranska4942]

I still don't know how to properly say it even after 18 years of my life even though I'm native Czech.

[@quentr019]

Je mi 13 a pořad to neumím 😭😭

[@Sandvichman.]

7:37 For the Ř sound

[@anne5664]

Thank you xD

[@user-uu4kz8sr5i]

Будь здоров))

[@BlitzOfTheReich]

thank Jesus I speak Spanish because the rolling r is easy. Now the Ř is another story.

[@mikewellwood1412]

Yes... rolling "R" is also easy if you speak Welsh, or for most Scottish English speakers. But as you say, Ř is another story.

[@smartmouth8510]

smartmout. eu eccelent Speech terapist tools

[@Pidalin]

@@mikewellwood1412 Rolling R is easy for everyone except English speakers and Asians. :-D

[@User-dt1mu]

@@Pidalin french and german dont have rolling R either

[@Pidalin]

@@User-dt1mu German sounds very different in every part of Germany or Austria, some Germans have rolled R, not crazy rolled like in Russian, but definitely not like in English.

[@ginaperregrino494]

Thank you for this! I am an opera singer and have my first experience singing in Czech in Janácek’s opera Jenufa. This was so helpful.

[@BecauseCzechIsCool]

That's great Gina, thank you!

[@alyanahzoe]

@@BecauseCzechIsCool hi!

[@TadyGavin]

15:46 hahaha! dobrá rada

[@lucinkaa7528]

Haha c:

[@VlogDoGio]

Você ta aqui tbm, Gavin hahaha

[@lauralaura6109]

TadyGavin nebo 2 a pak další 2

[@mgmatthew2009]

@@lauralaura6109 no jo

[@lamac1166]

@@mgmatthew2009 máš pravdu dobrá rada xd

[@martinbabb6683]

Thank you! I lived in Prague for 3 years and no one ever explained the pronunciation of Ř as clearly as you! Diki~~ :)

[@BecauseCzechIsCool]

Tak to mám radost, děkuju! :)

[@RepublikSivizien]

People here for r: 5 People here for ř: ITS OVER NINE THOUSAND

[@asafschreiber7941]

Over 25,000. Literally no one has problem with a normal R.

[@cinnamonmew4373]

@@asafschreiber7941 maybe chinese and japanese...?

[@caylee2529]

@@asafschreiber7941 I DO OMG-

[@justme-hi5jv]

I don't have to learn R and Ř :D I'm from Czech XD

[@rhuanpereiramariae]

@@cinnamonmew4373 Chinese, yes. But Japanese don't. It's the sound of ら、れ、り、ろ、る。

[@aldolammel]

Oh gosh, Gavin is pretty famous here in Brazil 'cause his channel is dadicated to teach English for Brazilian people. Glad to see him in my Czech studies suddenly.

[@BecauseCzechIsCool]

Haha, what a small world :)

[@Aaron-hm8xj]

This is the definitely the best video for learning the Czech R and Ř - and I have looked far and wide for this!!

[@debbiekruizinga6515]

I was in Czech Republik for 3 weeks and because I was there for so "long" I wanted to be at least able to count in Czech from one to ten. With the pronunciation I didn't get any further than 3 and 4

[@niky9649]

easy jedna, dva, tři, čtyři, pět, šest, sedum, osm, devět, deset,

[@josefmalar7837]

you may jump 3 and 4 and continue with 5 😀

[@felipevidal5205]

Awesome! Great lesson ! I am a Brazilian, as a portuguese native speaker I like to think in the Ř as RJ. Thus for the word Řeka, I build in my mind RJEKA, and I think I did it very well. PS: Great Gavin! We love your lesson and your connection with Brazilians!

[@tekken.universal2343]

Rj is not ř at al and Its wrong

[@felipevidal5205]

@@tekken.universal2343 wrong is judging without knowing how RJ sounds in portuguese

[@rain-cy6ve]

That s how I hear it as well but damn it s still hard to pronounce, no sound like that in my language

[@srulykaplan]

​@tekken.universal2343 in portuguese, RJ sounds like the polish RŻ, still i don't think its the correct pronunciation

[@memorellie]

The first "R" is easy for me because I'm Bulgarian and in Bulgarian is the same...

[@jeyko666]

Im bulgarian as well but i did the czech R first try? It's really easy for me

[@Epitome613]

I can roll an r no problem. it's the "ř" that completely confounds me.

[@katkalucktaylor6994]

Love the video! I am Czech and my husband is an Aussie. My full name is Kateřina ... he hates the letter , tried to make him say řeřicha several times ...nope, or Strč prst skrz krk! Jesus that's something.. he asked me if he was supposed to choke on his own saliva with this :-)))

[@Jelineli]

Jak si procvičit angličtinu? Poslouchat cizince, jak se učí česky. Nevím proč, ale strašně mě to baví. Poznávám tak češtinu z úplně jiného úhlu pohledu. Nejlepší videa o tom má Gavin.

[@rekabarba1878]

In Hungarian we have the same “R” sound. When I was a child, I used to have difficulties despite the fact that my name is Réka and it starts with an R 😂 (btw my name really does mean river but not in my language lol)

[@yk-lz3nr]

Привет, Река. Nice name. My name is Alexandr and I can't say R correctly. But in Russian Alexandr has some short forms: Sasha, Sanya, San Sanich

[@crazyd4ve875]

@@yk-lz3nr in America it becomes Aleks (Alex) :)

[@yk-lz3nr]

@@crazyd4ve875 but we also have a name Alexey in Russian language. So Alexandr and Alexey will sound as one person.

[@lmaocetung]

In Czech, river is řeka :)

[@JVerde853]

And your last name means beard in some Romance languages. River beard

[@fraaja3849]

This Chanel is awesome because I'm from Czech Republic.

[@siebensunden]

I don't know why but when I was a little boy I knew how to say Ř but struggled with R, which took me more time to learn. Good luck to all of you learning Czech.

[@julitesi]

I'm learning czech and really loved this video

[@N3XX_]

Rly?

[@niky9649]

how brave you are it's hard

[@CzechWithKaterina]

Really like the exercises you used to learn the Ř! ♥

[@byrnon]

We have an "R-ZH" sound in English in the word "VERSION". Of course our "R" is different, but maybe one way to tackle Czech "R-ZH" is to start with "VERSION" and then try to say it with a Czech "R". Personally, the Czech "R-ZH" is not too hard after a vowel, but it's hard to pronounce after a consonant, and hardest of all at the beginning of a word.

[@caseycronan9217]

Thanks for this! I had studied Spanish in grade school, but could never say R correctly until I took a semester of Czech in college!

[@veronikaschatz2825]

My mom is from Czech and I can speak Czech fluently but I still have problems with rsch.. I don't know how to write it haha

[@imlit3036]

ř

[@abuayyad9314]

Ř is another level, I came here for R

[@sarahferguson2614]

Same

[@rutabega306]

Your students are so confident and well spoken, well done, and thank you for this video!

[@donpratt1732]

At 10:00 in the video, Gavin explains the ř so well that I FINALLY DID IT. (So happy I almost cried.) Now if I could only say it in a word.

[@BecauseCzechIsCool]

Super!! :) Gratuluju!

[@weltraumbummler2780]

I was was practicing the Ř for two week and thought that it still sounds bad. Then my teacher told me that I'm already better than some native speakers.

[@lumajs]

LOL, I just embedded this video on Quora, in a discussion under my answer to "Why do some Swedish people have problems saying words that begin with a ”V” like ”video”, I hear some people pronounce it like ”Wideo”?" It's funny because Swedes' "R" is - almost like the Chinese "R" - almost the same as "L". So I hope this Jakob will see what a proper "R" sounds like. I liked your technique number 1, the mechanical one. If you want to say "R", you need to literally push your finger through your throat LOL.

[@Eburiden]

I, German, studied English at an academy for foreign languages. I can tell, we Germans (my entire class) have also trouble with your v - and we don't even realize it. Thank goodness our teachers were native speakers and corrected us

[@vdrknd9883]

OMG I'm so happy a Slovak friend introduced me to your channel after I have been complaining to him how much difficulties I experience as a Flemish speaker with learning Chech on the Duolingo app and how much I am in need of a decent grammar book / lessons etc. This will definitely help and I,m looking forward to go through all the content.

[@BecauseCzechIsCool]

I'm so glad!

[@foreigeanneamhspleach]

Ive just started learning the czech alphabet tonight and so far this is helping me understand how to pronounce R. But i wont move onto the other for a while...

[@foreigeanneamhspleach]

I CAN FINALLY ROLL MY R’S!! THANK YOU SO MUCH. I STARTED ON FEBRUARY 23RD WITH THE METHODS IN THIS VIDEO AND ON MARCH 15TH I DID MY FIRST FULL ‘rrrrrrrrrr’ SOUND AND NOW I CAN ROLL MY R’S INFINITELY! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!! I want to learn Czech in the future so I came here to learn how to roll my r’s so i could be ready to pronounce both the czech r’s. I couldnt do it, but i kept pronouncing ‘TDA’ until i was able to make short ‘drrrr’ sounds. It became a habit for me. Now I can do an infinite ‘rrrrrrrr’ sound until i run out of breath. THANK YOU!

[@Pidalin]

I thought north german languages have rolled R

[@thomasschulz8477]

@@Pidalin yes but no, above denmark they have, in netherlands and flanders (although is more west) also and in the some places in north germany and pretty much whole sout germany

[@Pidalin]

@@thomasschulz8477 Yeah, I noticed that Germans pronouncing R very different depends on where they are from, sometimes it's similar to our R and sometimes it sounds almost like French R. I think our R is not hard, it's just normal R, not so rolled as Russian or Italian and not silent as English, nothing special. But our Ř is really special. :-D I thing only one language which has similar sound is Icelandic.

[@emdadahmed5592]

12:45 best advice. Looking up actually helps with pronouncing the r with a hat on it

[@treintaydiez]

Thank God I am a native Spanish speaker, so 2/3 of this is done. The Ř on the other hand....

[@odnpntYT]

Spanish, Italian, and Czech: *using rolled/trilled r Russian: *allow me to introduce myself*

[@poro9084]

dont worry, i am native speaker and i went to these special doctors - i think it is calles logopedie?, to learn my R and Ř and Š, i had quite difficulty with those, but when you finally get the sound going, you realize it is quite easy to do For me - i liked jazykolamy - tonguelockers - hard to pronounce words in phrase which is mostly consisted of them - i liekd to be thrown into this :D, tonguelocker i used was třistatřicettři stříbrných stříkaček stříkalo přes třistatřicettři stříbrných střech - how you can see, lot of Ř - it is 333 silver sprayers sprayed over 333 silver roofs

[@janboreczek3045]

How did You come from a single tapped r to the rolled one? This is where I am struggling, the best equivalent is somethong like ž with š, and this is at best

[@josefmalar7837]

@@janboreczek3045 if you want to say R, just repeat the word TDAKTOR.... over and over. one day tongue jumps and will say TRAKTOR.

[@Septiccatgaming]

I’m glad that I have my Russian р sound pretty good, because it’s the same. Ř is a different story

[@yk-lz3nr]

Sounds like Ж

[@MyYTwatcher]

@@yk-lz3nr Not really. If I am not wrong that sounds as "zh" / "ž".

[@yk-lz3nr]

@@MyYTwatcher I'm sure there is a tiny difference in pronunciation)

[@m1xyy191]

thank you so much, ive been trying to learn since i am 3 years old and now i can finally hear it pop out

[@BecauseCzechIsCool]

wohooo, gratuluju :)

[@jammmy30]

This video really makes me wonder how different we all are. For me all the “accents” in Czech writing is a big problem (but I can hear them and repeat most of them just from hearing once). Also accusative is a bit difficult at times. Otherwise? Czech is absolutely Lovely because one can actually HEAR most of the time what other person is saying, unlike say Danish where words have no beginning and no end.

[@migueles4834]

Love your English accent. :) And you make the learning of Czech very interesting and not stressing. So tired of endless foreign language lessons by non natives, especially US pseudo-teachers with a flare not for languages but for two-bit theatricals. Keep up your interesting videos. Cheers and thanks from Portugal. :)

[@BecauseCzechIsCool]

Ahoj Migueli, thanks for your comment! I'm happy you like my videos and approach! Zdravím z Prahy! My English accent is far from perfect and I keep working on it, but at the end of the day I learn languages to connect with people and communicate and not to be perfect :))

[@migueles4834]

@@BecauseCzechIsCool Your english accent is wonderful, I mean it. It's soft, soothing and nurturing. Maybe it's the pitch and tone of your voice or the particular influence of your native phonetics, but it sounds very nice. And your explanation of Czech phonetics it's also very interesting and soft sounding. I've enjoyed your video very much. I'm from Portugal and, traditionally, portuguese people are said to have a very clear and neutral enunciation of English language, so it's difficult to place us in the map if you haven't heard portuguese people speaking before, but if you have, then it's easy. We also have very difficult nasal dithongs and phonems pronounciation, which makes european Portuguese a very difficult language to learn for other romance language natives. Strangely enough, there seems to be a phonetic similarity between portuguese phonetics and that of slavic languages. In fact, many people claim that portuguese sounds like Polish or Russian or any other slavic language. I have a question for you though: are Czech and Slovakian the same language or are there any differences that actually make them different languages with independent grammar? Thank you.

[@BecauseCzechIsCool]

@@migueles4834 Díky! :) Slovak and Czech are two different languages, very similar though. I remember not being able to understand Slovak when I was little, however, after years and years of hearing it around me, today I can understand almost everything without ever actively learning it.

[@migueles4834]

@@BecauseCzechIsCool Its the same then as Portuguese and Spanish, or Catalán and Spanish, probably. Different languages with similar grammar and phonetics, that you can easy understand one another.

[@tekken.universal2343]

@@migueles4834 BRUUH SHE DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING LIKE AN ENGLISH ACCENT SHE JUST SPEAKS WRONG

[@user-ig8pd9qn5h]

Practicing pronunciation is like practicing an instrument for music. There is one basic rule (imo): Your aim should be to feel as relaxed as possible while producing the sound. It should work perfectly when talking slowly, then you can speed up. If you don't master it, try to be conscious about what's happening. And if you notice, that you make strange movements that have nothing to do with producing the sound (like looking to the ceiling, frowning your forehead,...) consciously let go of them and try to relax.

[@lyreczka]

This Ř sound is so difficult, I wouln't suspect it. I'm Polish and know Spanish so rolling r and zh (ż/rz/ž) are easy for me, but I can't combine the two together, my tongue starts to hurt heh

[@MMKurdia]

This is a great helpful explanation, thanks a lot. I love it!

[@WiggaMachiavelli]

I can't speak Czech and probably won't ever study the language in earnest, but I enjoy classical music and particularly like the works of Dvorak (no Czech keyboard for me). As a child I heard my Czsechoslovak grandfather pronounce Ř sometimes, but I could never do it. My best attempt for many years now has been to pronounce the 'r' and 'zh' sounds quickly in sequence, as I couldn't figure out how to combine them. Watching your video, the very first tip worked for me on my first attempt. I need to practice a bit, but this worked. Thank you.

[@BecauseCzechIsCool]

That's awesome, well done!

[@jessicaberumen6310]

Awesome vid. Just what I needed to improve my pronunciation. Thanks!!!

[@Khakzoy]

Dutchie here, no problem with both :)

[@MrGulasek]

Jako malý jsem také neuměl vyslovovat R,Ř. Někdy v tak v sedmi letech (cca rok 1971) jsem chodil na foniatrii. Tam jsem se učil metodou, o které mluvila Eliška- místo R vyslovovat několik D za sebou. Moc už si toho nepamatuji, ale na jednu větu z mnoha jsem si vzpomněl: Na náDDDDraží pDDDDodávají hoDDDDké páDDDDečky. Čili normální češtinou věta Na nádraží prodávají horké párečky-

[@josefmalar7837]

měl jsem to jednodušší, říkal jsem furt dokola TDAKTOL, až jsem začal říkat TRAKTOR.

[@lisamarydew]

Good video. Nice clear explanations! :)

[@BecauseCzechIsCool]

Díky :)

[@CastroROSSIGonzoOmarTete]

thanks for your fine explanation,it's not even challenging for me.r plus sh is a good method too. als a A2 Turkish speaker helps me too

[@fevner773]

Ok, i got the hang of the ř quite quickly, but what i will say and i dont mean this to hate in any way, but woman at the end made me lose it again, for me mixing the rolling r and sh woked best, but everyone is diferent. Thanks for the great video.

[@retterhalmlechtenstaarn2830]

Děkuji, pani! 👍

[@BecauseCzechIsCool]

Není zač! :)

[@dzbanecznix278]

in Polish we have ż and rz and they are both pronounced like Czech ž, now I know why.

[@Wolfwia]

Hi am from the Czech republic Budu mluvit česky Ř je hodně těžké i pro mne a r taky

[@josefmalar7837]

opakovat slovo TDAKTOR furt dokola.

[@enolAngnm]

yeah the r is easy. i find myself doing it sometimes when i don't mean to, like in english when i say things like "put it in the fridge" it becomes "purrrrrrin the fridge." yes the ř is much harder though! and i have even read that our pallets are different shapes based on ancestrial language. i am mostly czech in my family though so i should be able to do it soon :).

[@BecauseCzechIsCool]

I'm sure you will!

[@cr0issants]

Meanwhile I can do that one but not the rolled “r” 😅😅 let’s trade

[@TheTravelVlogger]

This is super helpful....please make one for the "ch" sound.....this one is pretty hard for me. I have heard people say pronounce it like "kh" but i find it only works in a few cases.

[@martonbalint4817]

In Hungary, we have the same rolling r, to be honest, before this video I didn’t even know other countries pronounce it differently 😂

[@heidip1782]

Omg I'm Austrian and glad that I learned to speak a normal R

[@EndZee]

Heidi P How long does it took you?

[@zulkiflijamil4033]

Dobrý den, Eliška . This is an excellent pronunciation video. Děkuju mockrát))

[@BecauseCzechIsCool]

děkuju moc :)

[@hellraiderpl559]

That is very similar to Polish ż (or the digraph rz) but there is a difference.

[@JOJO-xs5bo]

Nejlepší❤️

[@doyouseeafloatingsandwich4301]

I kept practicing how to pronounce the Ř whenever I got on the Sídliště Řepy tram 😅

[@ronalbars]

Thankfully I speak Portuguese and it's not that difficult for those who live in Portugal, since people here can make that sound.

[@chrisrush1378]

When I say "why did I..." quickly, the two d sounds in quick succession make the rolling r sound

[@debbiekruizinga6515]

I think I got it! Oh my god! Thank you so much!!

[@hugoingelhammar6163]

I'm from Sweden and studied czech 10 years ago on my erasmus in Prague. In swedish we use the regular rolling R alot, especially in my accent from Gothenburg. It was a big step for kids when they learned to say R. Kids were teased for not being able to say R. So apparently thats was not a a problem for me when studying czech. Many people in my czech class thought Ř was hard, but i just saw it like saying Š and R at the same time

[@johnhajdu4276]

If you say ř I hear most of the time the ž. Puting a "r" before the ž is difficult. The question if we use ž instead of ř, we are still understandable, aren't we?

[@rcl5555]

Curiously, that's how Polish evolved. Historicaly, Polish "rz" sound was similar to Czech (the words are also similar: rzeka for the river, lekarz for doctor etc), but now it's the same sound as ż. Only spelling is different, pronunciation is the same, leading to misspelings like żeka, lekaż and vice versa. I'm not Czech, but I'd think that for a Czech person you may sound as if you had Polish accent?

[@olimiardomago2644]

Oh god. I was watch 8 minutes of how to pronounce roll r, and I am brazillian, I say the roll r, ever. Ahahahhaha god

[@squaretriangle9208]

thank you very much for showing us the different techniques!! But now to something completely different: the colour of your sweater suits you perfectly!! (I´m into colours and how they fit people, lately:))

[@BecauseCzechIsCool]

Haha děkuju! :)

[@alyanahzoe]

@@BecauseCzechIsCool do czech kids struggle with this?

[@RedSword69]

Thanks for sharing :) !

[@leinbajr]

The tongue twister of hockey names is Josef Kořenář. That hurt my brain when I first saw his name.

[@nofuxCZ]

If you are afraid to say the number 4 - čtyři - you can get around it by saying čtyri/štyri instead. Many Czechs from Bohemia often say it like that, including me.

[@premiumturkish]

We have this in Turkish too. 😮 We produce it at the end of words.

[@frankdsouza2425]

Superbly presented.

[@apriljayjayoma]

luckily I learned Ř naturally! hehe

[@franzbozo934]

THANK YOU!!!! i've been trying ("trying" is the key word :))) ) to learn czech for a while now and we have the same "r" in romanian but the ř... good lord i had to say "st george" instead of jiři when i visited prague castle last week because i was ashamed of mispronouncing it in front of my old folks.

[@BecauseCzechIsCool]

Držím palce!

[@chaseriver9765]

Great video -- thanks! This is really intriguing to me: I am 1/2 Czech (both my paternal grandparents) -- and I seem to have minimal difficulty with this sound -- and I don't speak Czech at all (although I heard it a lot as a kid)! I can pronounce it exactly as you do, pretty easily. Don't mean to sound like I'm bragging, but instead wondering if it has an anatomical/genetic influence. By that I mean, often people of the same culture may have similar physical characteristics, generally speaking. Is it possible that my anatomy makes it easier for me to pronounce this sound? I have no other explanation.

[@MatttCZvLP]

Probably just luck,I am entirely czech and i had to learn it as a kid :P

[@soupertlh2674]

when we are young and still language grasping we learn to make the sounds of the languages around us, so you might have had some practice as a kid making that sound when babbling/learning how to talk. it's also a matter of luck, i cant make certain english sounds and thats my native language

[@sebeek00]

1:46 My brain when I'm doing what you doing as a native😂

[@ATDMV]

Pretty easy for me

[@name4601]

turns out I've been saying it right this entire time and it was pretty easy for me to learn. I guess my Czech genes are coming into play, haha.

[@trancedrones]

Studoval jsem Cestinu, vase lekce jsou dobry

[@Schneiderification]

Hi, thank you very much for your effort. Please, could you write to me where I can see your videos for cases?? I saw only for Nominative??Waiting and thank you

[@daca8395]

Ř is essentially R but the thongue doesnt touch top of a mouth

[@eablas2243]

This is the first anything that's gotten me so close to rolling my r's! I was able to brrr for the first time!

[@BecauseCzechIsCool]

skvělé! :)

[@clement2780]

ts exists in both chinese and mandarin languages

[@sjoerdmeijer3116]

This is my story. I have been trying to pronounce the r for over a month now. I followed this video and it helped quite a bit. But now I am getting bullied by some Czech guy because he thinks he is better than me. I honestly Hate this letter. Why does it exist? Edit: I still can't pronounce it properly.

[@Sanchez21]

What about now

[@beks_sonic_besties814]

Yes podarilo se mi vyslovit Ř som zo slovenska

[@Tjubi]

cool video bro now i know how to say R now!

[@NamesOfTheHare]

This is amazing, thank you!

[@BecauseCzechIsCool]

Glad you like it!

[@ramonek9109]

ř is a whole lot easier for me since the simultanious sh-like sound somewhat overshadows the fact I cannot trill the r. But just the r by itself is just impossible for me and I have been trying for many years. I do not understand where the r sound is actually supposed to come from if not from the throat. Just vibrating your tounge doesnt make a sound and a d-sound plus vibration does not turn into r for me.How can an R be pronounced if not in the throat?

[@Moneyaddthenmultiply]

So ř is basically identical to Polish ‘rz’ (only when ‘rz’ is at the beginning of words)

[@filiphasl7913]

Actually I am Czech and I have bigger problems with r than ř

[@lucasbelotisilva3416]

Oh I know gavin, he makes videos too, about Brasil and portuguese

[@Azzazpimp]

I used to live in Prague when I was kid, I can’t speak the language anymore but I can still say ř just fine :) muahahahaha

[@bojanbojic9230]

Ahoj Eliško!🌄 Když výslovuju slovo řeka, já slyším kombinaci r+ž, ale když výslovuju , například číslo tři, já slyším tr+ši. Je to pravda?

[@BecauseCzechIsCool]

Ahoj Bojane :) Ano, máš pravdu, Ř ve slově "řeka" a "tři" je opravdu trochu jiné. Už se tady na to někdo ptal v jiném komentáři, tak ti zkopíruju svoji odpověď: "Ahoj Marcio, you are completely right, there are two types of Ř indeed. And it's great that you have already noticed the difference. Generally said, when we produce voiced consonants, our vocal cords vibrate, and they don't when producing unvoiced consonants. When you pronounce a voiced consonant, you should feel a vibration when you put your hand on the throat. Also, voiced consonants are difficult to whisper. In the case of Ř, its voiced version is much stronger and pronounced with more energy than the unvoiced one, which is very soft. If the voiced Ř sound to your ears as R+Ž (as in the word "vision"), then you can image the unvoiced Ř as a combination of R+Š (as in the word "ship"). Ř is voiced next to a vowel (řEkl, řÍzek) or next to another voiced consonant (B, V, D, Z, ... - Dřevo). And it's unvoiced next to another unvoiced consonant (P, F, T, S, K, .. - bouřKa, Přítel) and at the end of the word (kuchař, talíř)."

[@bojanbojic9230]

@@BecauseCzechIsCool Děkuji moc 🌄

[@KaelSvalcembelk]

@@bojanbojic9230 Toto je pravda. A dokonce existují děti, které "řeka" vyslovit umí, ale "tři" nevysloví. Prostě ta "dvě různá" ř se v hubě tvoří trochu jinak vzhledem k tomu, co za hlásky je před a za "ř". Podobně máme i dvě "n", aniž bychom si to uvědomovali. Jedno znělé a druhé nosové. Ve slově "piáno" vyslovuješ "n" zněle, ale ve slově "lanko" ho přiškrtíš v nose. A třeba takové slovo "panenka" obsahuje obě tato různá "n" zároveň. :-) Máme zajímavý jazyk. Obtížný a kreativní. Děda kdysi prohlásil, že "anglicky se nenaučí, protože angličani jinak píšou než čtou. Kdežto my píšeme přesně jak čteme". Tak jsem ho vyvedl z omylu. Jen v názvu města Tišnov jsou dvě písmena napsaná jinak, než se čtou. Konev, hrob, popelnice, spád... to všechno jsou slova napsaná jinak, než je čteme. Jen o tom nepřemýšlíme, protože je to pro nás samozřejmost.

[@monikaencheva8490]

As a bulgarian R and the other R is easy Beacuse the Czech R sounds like The bulgaria р and the other R in Czech sounds like the bulgarian ж

[@alizannnnn]

My biggest problem is pronouncing it after a vowel, because my tongue can’t get in position quick enough so it doesn’t roll

[@iyouxinF2P]

This videos should be 3 seconds long

[@CaptainJonesBones]

i didn’t roll my r but i accidentally learned how to whistle lmao

[@nitinbhushan6044]

That is so much fun.