How to pronounce R & RR in Spanish

[@nhannguyen2190]

1:10 What are the videos he mentioned here about linguistics, phonetics, phonology, etc.? Couldn't find them.

[@rachelharris708]

I’m not sure if you already knew this, but these sounds exist for the letter R in Italian, too.(haven’t watched this lo the way through and I already know what you’ referring to. I’ve been dabbling in linguistics and plan to minor in it in college.)

[@ckubitscespaol6881]

Thanks. My problem isn't with the rolled R but with the flapped R. This helps.

[@LewisOsborne]

I practiced while watching this video and it finally worked!! First time I’ve managed to roll a perfect RR... Estoy usando tu canal para aprender español, ¡gracias por divertirme!! ☺️

[@DGaryGrady]

Here's a really pedantic point about English in passing: The spelling CC in English can be pronounced like K (as in "accuse") or like KS (as in "access"), but at least in old school dictionaries it is never pronounced like S. Hence "accessory" and "flaccid" are pronounced "aksessory" and "flaksid." In practice, however, the S pronunciation is becoming increasingly common.

[@FingtamLanguages]

Interesting. I actually always pronounce it as “aksessory”.

[@AlexKazuma]

10:15 - Don't let the analogy of a flute trill confuse people: unlike the musician's fingers, which make an effort, press on the instrument to play the trill, the tongue must move on its own - under the pressure of air passing between the tongue and the alveoli. That is, the tip of the tongue should not press on the alveoli at all. Yes, the tip of the tongue should be wide and curled towards the top, but as relaxed as possible. And, of course, the air must not pass anywhere else than through and near the wide tip of the tongue, that is, the back of the tongue must also be raised to close the exit of the air flow anywhere else than through the tip of the tongue. Oops, he said it at 13:43.

[@brendacalvillo2279]

Thank you!

[@homosapien.a6364]

I used to struggle with making the d sound in English (video) I was always pronouncing it like a regular D And my native tongue is Arabic so I don't have any difficulties with pronouncing the Spanish R And I use it in Esperanto And the beggest problem I'm facing now in English is the English spelling 🙂😭💔

[@DGaryGrady]

Even native speakers of English can't handle the spelling!

[@PD-js3gp]

Thank you

[@nberger6984]

Any tips for saying train/tren? I can’t do the r after the T without a vocal break.

[@derpingflamingo]

yes.....YES! At last ive found the unflipped video

[@yourfirstsecondlanguage4782]

It really annoys me when English speakers say that their mouth is somehow anatomically unable to produce a rolling r!

[@bamboojenkins8]

Mine is broken. It doesn't work for me.

[@jahipalmer8782]

I struggle with my rolled r's quite a bit but if I am speaking spanish and I (poorly) roll my r's the hispanohablantes that I am speaking to don't get on my too hard. Like, it sounds bad but they don't get too mad at me. My friend who learned spanish as a second language, however, laughs at me for the next hour because his r's are perfect.

[@shaohuali9373]

actually it is the bottom of the tongue tip vibrating, front and back,right?

[@NathanLhote]

I'm french and the uvular trill is super easy for me (even though I dont use it in my normal speech)! Cannot do the alveolar trill for the life of me tho!

[@DGaryGrady]

I'm a native speaker of American English but for some reason I find both the uvular trill and uvular fricative R of French fairly easy (not that my French is otherwise acceptable!). I can to some degree pronounce the Spanish alveolar trill (mainly between vowels, as in "perro") but it's easier if I've had a beer first. (This is not a joke.) I think a uvular trill may be an acceptable substitute for an alveolar trill in many contexts especially if the goal is to be understood rather than to sound completely native. In fact, I gather linguistic historians think the French R was originally an alveolar trill (though certainly by the time of Molière it was an uvular trill). By the way, there are dialects of Spanish in which the trill isn't used, notably in Costa Rica where at least among natives it can come across as pretentious. From what I've read there are native speakers of Spanish who trouble with the alveolar trill. Very young children tend not to use it) and some adults substitute a uvular trill so the difficulty isn't just a matter of unfamiliarity. The uvular trill for RR is also sometimes heard in Basque regions of Spain and in rural Puerto Rico.

[@Countryboy78]

Do they roll their R's in thai

[@FingtamLanguages]

They do the flapped R, but not the trilled R

[@miguelvenegas4233]

Good video bro :))

[@portland_russ]

In Russian, we have the same sound and it even stronger than Spanish "R".

[@DGaryGrady]

It's also found in some dialects of English, most famously and strongly in some dialects in Scotland but also in very upper class British English particularly for initial Rs (as with the initial R in Spanish).

[@teo4609]

I'm a dislexic guy and I often have problems when i speak spanish, y eso que es mi lengua materna y tú la pronuncias mejor jajaja