how to say R perfectly in English | American English Pronunciation Lesson

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[@Ngaemond]

He makes it seem so easy. I taught English Conversation to adults for 16 years and very few non-Americans can pull it off. I appreciate his effort to explain how the American r works.

[@JeetSingh-fn8wc]

It was really helpful for many of us. "R" sound is totally different from all other alphabets. Thank u

[@bryanfongo327]

@@foonxd in most other languages it's either guttural or rolled, english is the only language i've come across that uses such an awkward tongue position.

[@mecky1989]

​@@bryanfongo327chinese and dutch also have the same /r/ as english

[@manuel0578]

Not true. Our German dialect called Oberlausitzerisch has the same r sound.

[@mschauer97]

You have such a clean voice, no mumbling at all, and you speak at the perfect pace (slow enough but still natural). Thanks so much. Keep up the brilliant work. 👍

[@valence7]

As someone who has struggled with a speech disfluency for a long time, I appreciate this refresher.

[@cnskn]

You are my favorite teacher, your english is so natural and clean

[@CloudEnglish]

woohoo!

[@adammcd8683]

Native English speaker here, never been able to say it, this really helped thanks!

[@auntypizza]

How can you not be able say this letter? What were you saying?

[@Venton25]

@@auntypizza havent watched the video but my problem is if a word starts with r for example rap it sounds like wap when i say it

[@CussVR]

​@@auntypizzaspeech impediments (my mom never really cared to correct me at a young age so i never learned how to say it)

[@bothmarioANDluigi]

omg twinning i really hope this helps cause this is the stem of my social anxiety

[@-Woodstock-Lastrussysux]

@@auntypizzaI have a speech impediment so I just can’t do the r sound might be the same for this guy

[@dreamscapes2727]

Omg this really helped me, I usually make people misunderstand when I say words like red and then they think it sounds like wet, but this video really helped me, thank you.

[@sigma.analysis]

Same, if I say "reread" for example, it always sounds like "weweed"

[@psyche8919]

That tongue tip actually helped me so much, I can feel my pronunciation got a lil better I'll keep practicing

[@Dany-gf9zu]

how is it going

[@somone2674]

can you say it now

[@marwaosman4134]

For me as arabic speaker originally "R" is the toughest letter in english cause in arabic R is pronounced by tongue touching the upper frontal teech which sounds like strong and repetitive

[@Hotdogflavoredwatermelon]

Same for russian speakers.

[@Jake-qz8lb]

Ok

[@faisalkhbrany8488]

​@@HotdogflavoredwatermelonI think also Spanish

[@faisalkhbrany8488]

​@stasstropsa5328 but I found it is to say better and native for me with correct pronunciation it's weird

[@faisalkhbrany8488]

​@stasstropsa5328 but I found it is to say better and native for me with correct pronunciation it's weird

[@user-wl9ig7yb6r]

As someone who lives in Massachusetts and has to listen to people with Boston accents, I thank you for this video.

[@Formerpresidentbarackobama696]

Thank you so much, native English speaker who has always struggled with this, this helped a ton

[@FormerpresidentBarackObama99]

You're not Obama I am!

[@JohnDoe-r9e]

this is hands down the best explanation of R sound i've ever heard.

[@natsocchad2376]

I always had an issue while pronouncing the hard R , thank you.

[@imbaby5499]

Lmao

[@SuyachanYT]

gerrrrrr

[@ItalianClasswithGaia]

Thank you for this video. I’m an Italian “R Flipper/Triller” living in the US and the R sounds is the hardest to produce properly for me. You made me realize that I was overdoing it! This helps me a lot ❤

[@NageAlaesawe]

I'm from Iraq I love Italy very much

[@lyubovkh699]

Hi Luke. Thank you so much for your lessons! You do such great job for us. I have already studied your eight courses and I bought two more a day ago. They are old ones. One is about making clients happy and another one is about job interview. I am enjoying learning them now. I don't have deal with clients but I find this course useful anyway. Sometimes we are clients. So this course can help us to understand people who provide services to us and to get along with people in our daily life. Thanks again!

[@CloudEnglish]

So glad to hear it! I noticed you had started those courses

[@GL1_YT]

Thanks so much! I’ve been awkward in conversations and tried to avoid talking because I’ve never learned how to really pronounce r.

[@donnapaladino9523]

Nice work Luke! Just want to mention that this teaching is valuable for tutors who work with dyslexic kiddos. They need to understand sound production and the physics involved in our very complicated language. Thankful Tutor-

[@travelozii6824]

You are a Genius. I have always struggled to pronounce word ending with letter R. You have made it so easy for us. Thank you

[@liezelcalixtro1763]

I am now correcting my r sound thank you so much teacher Luke, it really helps a lot. God bless always.

[@Adriana.Gabriela]

Rolling the tip of your tongue up is only 1/2 of the job. If you want to really make it sound native, you also need to push (or pull) your whole tongue a bit to the back (towards your throat)

[@Redleafs2022]

Man, you are the best! Thanks a lot, now my Slavic accent is way better))

[@MickeysFuneral]

Thank you for making this video! I am dyslexic and I have troubles with speaking, this really helped me!

[@be7256]

My English accent is already pretty good so I definitely have some sort of idea on how the pronunciation works but wow for some reason hearing you enunciate r that way just made something click in my head

[@CloudEnglish]

Hopefully it was a good click

[@pilargarcia1503]

Best lesson for pronouncing /r/ sound

[@elsayedali1659]

that tongue tip was really helpful , thank you

[@6r37a]

THANK YOU so so so much, people have been bullying me because my English R sounds like a W. This helped a lot!

[@PolianicesdaPolly]

Oh man! Thanks for helping us about this. I'm from Brazil and I'm also teaching english to a friend and I she's from Minas Gerais, which is a place that anybody speak words with "R" sound. They used to use the "h" sound instead. So it's something like that: Hadio (radio) and it's so hard to teach her to change this "R/H" and make her speak like "Restaurant, Radio..." but I'm going to use your video.. let's see if I can do it 😄 Thanks a lot!

[@Sophia-U]

Thank you so much for this video. I'm performing in a play where I have to do an American accent and this is so helpful.

[@zimirken50]

I still have troubles, I grew up mute here in America but my family is Asian and Mexican, was in speech for 10 years, it's still hard for me, thank you for this video

[@Camze3307]

Brillant ! Your explanations are very fluids and your language very comprehensible. As French, I can understand.

[@michaeldaeli7493]

Thanks, this guidance help me so much😊

[@gameonburn5102]

Wow thanks you ..i will train as much as possible.INSHALLAH

[@kimsombke7622]

Using this to help my adult students learning English. Thanks!

[@its-meaustin]

This video really helped me among other videos out there.Thank you so much,Sir.

[@IslamTheTruth5147]

The American R is a nightmare for us Arabic speakers. Thx G 👍👑

[@7MPhonemicEnglish]

American (r) is a vowel. You can sustain it until you run out of breath and it sounds the same from start to finish. It's the single monophthong vowel in the word 'drt'. Usually we use the combination of 'er' to represent the sound (ie 'better', 'gather') but that's only because we were brainwashed into believing that (r) is a consonant which led to the false notion that we needed to insert a vowel.

[@Vagabondobiondo]

You're totally right in practicality; that's exactly how I teach it to students. I think the speech science wonks have termed it a 'semi-consonantal vowel', though. Which means essentially what you said, but with some weird technicality which gives it a consonant flavor.

[@7MPhonemicEnglish]

@@Vagabondobiondo Yeah. It creates difficulty using vowels as if they are consonants. It's hard to figure out what we're doing with our mouth parts as well. I believe we do similar things with the word 'coordination' where a /w/ approximate may be used between the two /o/'s which gives the second /o/ a consonant flavor but we tend to recognize the /w/ as the consonant sound but we do the same thing with the 2nd /r/ in the word 'error' where we do a vowel /r/, consonant flavored /r/ and then another vowel /r/, an ill-begotten word for certain but we're stuck with it.

[@suzanneyu3979]

I really like your lectures ❤

[@muradalahdal5812]

You are the best R teacher

[@andrejlykov6408]

Sure, I liked it! Thank your for your work!

[@Nicholas_William_Junior_]

Now I have started to hate my pronunciation 😂 because I have been spelling wrong the "R" Sound before I bumped into your video today after that I improved.Thanks a lot 🎉

[@60enterprises]

How come that channels like this that teach natural American English don't get the millions subscribers they deserve?

[@ahmedfadhilbaghdad7882]

you really helped me, THANK YOU

[@muhammedmg759]

To day I fix it because you ... I try to fix it from 8 but no way Now I am 19 and I do it and you the way that let me success Really thank you ❤️❤️❤️ I will never forget this day and I won't forget you

[@bigguru3429]

Your knowledge is very important , thakns bro

[@El-Mister-]

Thanks a lot. You're brilliant. I bought the full course and I'll start watching all of it. Thanks again. ❤️

[@Paodok]

Thank you, if it we wasnt for this video I don't think I would have ever been able to pronounce my "R" sound, now that I think I can pronounce it, I wont get picked on anymore :)

[@JanekKorzeniowski-v9b]

Thank you so much!!!!!!!! It really helped! I obviously liked and subscried!! Thanks again

[@baconsforlife868]

Thank you man, i was gettubf bullied on the internet and getting called out because i couldent pronounce this letter, i was getting called a little kid to, but thank you man i really appreciate it.

[@tatiannabravo2177]

Same here I am practicing r in speech

[@hannanabbas3530]

Very useful... thanks

[@upuiff]

thanks for teaching me how to say the Hard r appreciate it, thanks for the pass

[@gladysdelapuente2349]

Luke! Thank you for your videos! I founded your Chanel today. Congrats!

[@abdulal246]

I'm in love with ur teaching

[@manudemeter1330]

Hey ,thank you ,this helped me ,since I'm European

[@jacksonamaral329]

Pretty good, your lessons on pronunciation.

[@Jaychaefannnn]

thank you so much im starting to learn how to pronounce it

[@SoloTravelingAround]

Usually when the R is in a word or a sentence just like let's say narrow, is an easy word i have no difficulty with the R, but then comes words like paper or manager or

[@mdmobashshirulhaque]

You can make a video on phonemes pronunciation

[@thuvo1199]

You are funny, it helps me with the r sound a lot. Thank you!!!

[@BananaEmy]

Thank you so much I have been struggling with this for many many many years I use to say girl like gurl

[@Randomthinking13]

It helps me only a few! But I have to show and practice!

[@Anna-jw4vc]

I often misunderstand between /r/ and /3:/ your video is very helpful and easily understand :)

[@im_sorx]

THANK YOU this was extremely helpful❤❤

[@watchthepastgoupinsmoke380]

extremely, useful. thank you very much!

[@Caseysubiaga]

It worked!😊

[@rawlinjernigan8548]

I pronounce the letter R in the American and in American English and I pronounce it just like the word "are" because they both have the same exact sound

[@rolphy3706]

3:34 This made my day.😂🤣Great lesson though. Thanks for making English fun.lol

[@Blue_rose.]

Thank you 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@troyfuehrer5067]

i have never been able to pronounce it. i’m 21 and it affects my daily life. speech therapy never helped so i gave up. i’m going to try again

[@BrielEnglish]

This was awesome! You've helped so much! Gonna follow your advice. Thanks!

[@blush11111]

Very helpful thanks❤

[@rehanabbasi3039]

Informative ❤

[@DigitalNomadOnFIRE]

The most important thing is to NOT roll it (like Spanish). Spanish speakers will always say English speakers must roll the r, the opposite is also true, you must NOT in English. I think focussing on not rolling it is also important, specially for slavs and spanish speakers.

[@moonyb4by706]

thank you, when i watched the video for the third time i did it. thank you so much

[@محمدالموسوي-ت4د2ش]

Thank you very much ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@lovelyworld8241]

Wow, excellent 👌, thank you 🙏🏻

[@EngineerImdad]

Loved it.... from India

[@Vinchi-rn9bo]

thnak you very much partner

[@Elmax1983]

Omg thank you so much I’m Arab but I have a problem with r sound eek tyy bro

[@yehienemr2052]

Thank you so much for your help.

[@Major_Rain]

I honestly just have a problem saying "order" coherently... For some reason it's hard to pronounce the first r without it sounding like "or-rer". However I can say it slow. But then againt to keep the conversation fluent o have to remain on a speedy speech

[@leletach4789]

ikrrrrr i also suck with pronouncing "recording"

[@Major_Rain]

@@leletach4789 🥲

[@LayvthJvamevlye]

this is great !! i like it

[@jimbrausky]

I've spoken poorly pronounced English for decades, this makes me feel like I just started learning English 😢😅

[@ayakhadoor8675]

شكرا جزيلا

[@JVrxcsM]

I know its a been a long time but I love this keep up good work

[@ABCMarkerFromTPOT]

R=W

[@YeliYellow-nz5tb]

Amazing. Thanks. He sido sorda toda mi vida entonces. What about RARE?

[@Tr4fficreal]

You make my life better 😭😭

[@lightyagami__]

It was so good,helped me alot but still I'm stuck at a word with two r together like: Arranged , Array

[@KaiMusicP]

Those words just have more rs to look better said the same way as 1

[@eugenek777]

thanks!

[@Rina-ko5dm]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@elyoune1]

good video

[@nicolasmordechai139]

Helle! Thank you for this lesson, I wonder why the R is so difficult make properly.

[@fattanekermansaravi613]

Thanks , ❤🙃😊🌹🌻👌👌👌👌👌

[@OliWinchester]

thanks for the video... I'm German and the R-sound is kind of tricky for me. Thanks to you I now understand how to create that R-sound. I would love to make youtube content again but this is really holding me back. It's the 2nd day I go through your video while repeating each word around 20 times. I'm recording myself so I can take a look back and see if I make any progress. I will comment down below each day I go through this routine.

[@abcdoooabcd]

The T and R sound in amarican English accent is the most difficult

[@beystars9580]

I leaned very quick

[@krd.4530]

Thank you for this wonderful video!

[@NS9game]

Thank u

[@memelover190]

thank you now i can say the R word correctlly❤❤