Perfect the /r/ sound in less than 5 minutes! Australian Accent

[@lukehe4412]

Thank you so much. I felt so good that I can finally pronounce red like a native speaker. Hopefully, we can see more videos from you like how to pronounce L sound and more.

[@speechausclinic]

Awesome work Luke!!! So proud of you 🙌

[@lilianaaramayo8567]

What a great post, very helpful. Very few teachers know how to position the tongue, lips, etc to make perfect sounds. Thank you Sarah

[@speechausclinic]

Liliana Aramayo so happy it helps!

[@maurocarvalho1148]

Thank you for this speech therapeutical tip. American English /r/ doesn't exist on my native language. So speech organs must be "taught" how to pronounce certain foreign phonemes. They need a kind of "muscle memory" before begin pronouncing words automatically. As well physical exercises, this speech organs must be trained.

[@maurocarvalho1148]

@@cejannuzi My next challenge now has been how to pronounce consonant blends with /r/. Should I, to warm up, pronounce "rive" , "rive", "rive", "rive", "rive", "rive", "rive", "rive" and then add an /d/ and say "drive"?

[@ernestoaguirre8212]

Hola . Gracias por el video y podernos ayudar.!! Saludos

[@speechausclinic]

Thanks Ernesto! Happy to hear you found it helpful!

[@saibaba1334]

Excellent n wonderful videos plz upload more videos thanks

[@malgretout563]

I think this video is what I'm looking for. It works for me! Thank you.

[@lilianaaramayo8567]

Great explanation

[@marshmallowking1496]

Oh wowie, after 10 years of speech therapy i could have just gotten the perfect R by just watching this short video?! technology has sure come a long way.

[@maryjanelewis5488]

Thank you. I am a teacher of younger children and am in need of a videos such as this. Do you have any for the voiced and unvoiced ‘th’ phoneme. Quite a few students experience difficulty with this / these (?) phoneme.

[@bale2935]

i love the way you illustrate things too easy and very useful , you don't know how much that help me thanks a lot

[@vijaykumar-111]

Thanks 🎉

[@prince_m_h_d2513]

Great video

[@sylveonthefairypokemon9419]

What song is perfect to your voice?

[@shaikshakeel7897]

Thank you for clarifying me 😘❤️❤️

[@speechausclinic]

My pleasure!

[@snehadeepa5457]

Hi Can you show with some examples like are, better, her, water 😥😰

[@INN2007qqqq]

How to say "free", explain please and show it

[@JohnDoe-ym1cs]

Your jawline could cut the finest of diamonds!

[@speechausclinic]

THANKS! 💎

[@SamiSami-vb4kl]

This is so helpful, thank you so much, I made it but it is still not perfect like your pronunciation.

[@JasimUddin-pl4nw]

Best one

[@abhishekbarnwal3964]

thank you very much! hope this video will help me out But i have a question that when i speak /r/ it like /g/ sound i.e. viral like vigal and also face difficulty in /ri/ sound. Plz reply

[@speechausclinic]

Abhishek Barnwal possibly your tongue is going too far back and the voice is not vibrating for a long enough time!

[@CiprianGramatik]

Thank you very much for the post. May I ask you what happens with the "r" in the following words (in non-rhotic accents like RP): beware /bɪˈwɛə/, care /kɛə/, dare /dɛə/, there /ðɛə/, share /ʃɛə/, compare /kəmˈpɛə/, careful /ˈkɛəfʊl/, sphere /sfɪə/, figure /ˈfɪɡə/, and so on? In all of these cases the “r” is neither at the end of the word nor before consonant (rules that many BrE teachers teach for silent "r") - still, it is silent. Are there any rules that can be applied in these cases? What about: very, necessary, arbitrary, and so on - here the "r" is pronounced, but, even though in the middle of the word, there's no consonant before it (other rule BrE teachers teach for non-silent "r")? What's the rule here? What about the words: order, separate and the like? In "order", for example, the "r" is before a consonant - still, it is silent. On the other hand, in "separate" the "r" is in middle position, but there's no consonant before it - still, it is pronounced and therefore non-silent. What I am trying to learn is whether (or not) there are 2 separate rules for the “r”: one telling me when the “r” must be pronounced and one telling me when the “r” is silent. Am I missing something here? Thank you!

[@speechausclinic]

Hello Ciprian Gramatik and thank you for your kind feedback! In non-rhotic we delete /r/ as the last sound of any word. It simply will never occur. If you are aiming for an RP accent just follow the phonetic characters you see if you check words in Collins Dictionary etc. You are also correct in saying that /r/ is deleted before a consonant sound as well. In between all vowels it will be pronounced and sometimes it will occur at the end of the word as a link to the next word, IF the word contains a vowel at the start. But this must occur with no break in the soundwave. Let me know if you have any more questions! It is great to see you engaging so much with phonetics. Keep it up!

[@CiprianGramatik]

Thank you very much for your kind reply! Your suggestions have been of great help. Eventually, after having spoken with quite a few experts on this issue, and, of course, after having taken into consideration your suggestions, I wrote: 1. the "r" is silent in the following words: car, star, sister, mother, word, person, bird (/kɑː/, /stɑː/, /ˈsɪstə/, /ˈmʌðə/, /wɜːd/, /ˈpɜːsn/, /bɜːd/) because it is not followed by a vowel sound. 2. the "r" is pronounced /r/ in the following words: read, write, red, Rome, grass, green, very, separate (/riːd/, /raɪt/, /rɛd/, /rəʊm/, /grɑːs/, /griːn/, /ˈvɛri/, /'sepərət/) and also in berry, carry, arrange (ˈ/bɛri/, /ˈkæri/, /əˈreɪnʤ/) because it is followed by a vowel sound. Moreover, for the same reason, the "r" will be pronounced /r/ in words such as: caring, daring, stirring (/ˈkeərɪŋ/, /ˈdeərɪŋ/, /ˈstɜːrɪŋ/). 3. the "r" will be pronounced /r/ (“linking r”) between two consecutive words if there is no pause in pronunciation as in: care about (/keər əbaʊt/), near enough (/nɪər ɪˈnʌf/), war and peace (/wɔːr ənd piːs/), far away (/fɑːr əˈweɪ/), more ice (/mɔːr aɪs/).

[@speechausclinic]

SPOT on! Well done Ciprian Gramatik! You've decoded non-rhotic rules for /r/. I'm so proud of you!

[@maurocarvalho1148]

In rhotic accents, when /r/ is in final position in open syllables (that is, a syllable not closed by a consonant) it is pronounce as a schwa+r as in your examples be-ware, care, dare, there, share, com-pare, care-ful , sphere, fig-ure . In "sep-a-rate" the /r/ is in initial position, that is, /r/ it is starting a syllable, then it should be pronounced. www.thefreedictionary.com/rhotic www.thefreedictionary.com/Rhotic+and+non-rhotic+accents www.thoughtco.com/rhoticity-speech-4065992

[@jennifertorres3013]

But my R's are replaced with W's when I talk, and yet it hasn't helped me

[@abdelghaffarmohamed4567]

Thanks But I Have a question ? " I can Repeat R Fine But I can't Say Soft "R" Solvent plz Regards

[@speechausclinic]

Hi Enjaz! Thanks for your question. Can you elaborate a bit further? I'm not sure what you mean? Do you mean /r/ at the ends of words preceding a new word that will commence with a vowel?

[@abdelghaffarmohamed4567]

thank you very match for Your Reply I mean i can say morrrning rrrabbit " Hard R Sound" But Can not Say" R Soft Sound" like I say Morrrrning but cannot say morning Are you Know What I Mean thanks in advanced

[@hayad2088]

Hi, how r u? Please I can't. I pronounce R like غ = gh Can you help me?

[@speechausclinic]

h ayad this is tricky! The English /r/ does happen towards the back of the mouth with the tongue but not as deep for gh. How are you going with it now?

[@jennifertorres3013]

The video hasn't helped me correct that

[@kiyahsgaming7753]

It didn't work for me

[@teaizyummy]

the rounded lip shape is 100% not necessary for an R sound

[@speechausclinic]

Yes, I totally hear you & agree in most instances. However in some cases aberrations with air stream at the lateral sides with 2nd language interference are reduced if the lips are shaped. This is where 1-1 instruction is better as every speaker does need different tweaks here & there.

[@kathywilliams6745]

MMMM? I always teach NO ROUNDING of lips to ensure that the kids are not making a /w/ instead of an /r/ like in wabbit. I think this is very confusing. When I say /r/ my lips are parted like into a smile. Just saying....

[@stephaniegunn6205]

I teach the same.

[@harrisonxyz1]

Thanks very much for that tip. My daughter uses W instead of R and we were stuck

[@mkhan78627]

Sorry I cant pay attention to anything but those yellow nails.

[@bhoondr9869]

gorkha526 Same.

[@waters-above]

Her eyes too! Not sure if they're contacts or just the lighting, but when she's close up, her eyes look really weird with super small pupils. Anyone else notice that?

[@junglistgrrl]

They are bad

[@snehadeepa5457]

Same here

[@pacesferry]

My tongue is stiff as a wooden bat

[@pacesferry]

It's not trilling, LOL

[@janinephillips6986]

It would have been more helpful if there wasn't music playing in the background so we could have heard your voice.

[@speechausclinic]

Hi Janine- sorry for the music- this is one of my older videos so I've taken this on board and now keep it at a minimum. Thanks for the f/back though! Have a great day :)

[@33wilkie]

Strewth mate

[@verdugo1369]

My R sounds W all the time 😐

[@speechausclinic]

I'm so glad you let me know this! If your /r/ is sounding like a /w/ it means that your tongue is still loose and relaxed at the bottom of your mouth. You should be able to feel the muscle tensing if you put your thumb under your chin while you make the /r/ sound. You have to pull your tongue away from the front of the mouth and back. Let me know how you go and if you have any other questions!

[@d07a]

yeah yeah all well and good, get to the foreigners after you teach english speakers how to trill please

[@cry5979]

ichimarnold Jesus

[@speechausclinic]

Happy to do so, as an opera singer I use the trilled sounds often, however ability to produce the sound is usually genetic so you can either do it, or you can't.

[@harshaldhere4148]

I am 15 ½ but still can't pronoun R😫😫😭

[@habildesilva8864]

Me too same case same age did it worked with you? I'm still trying

[@money8001]

hellour

[@huthayfasalahat1518]

really I heat Australian accent it so difficult

[@speechausclinic]

apu guevara aw don’t give up!! Also remember you have the right to choose whichever accent you want to use!

[@lisalen6348]

when producing the /r/ sound your lips should not be rounded, they should be up, wide and tight working in pediatrics children replace the w (lip rounded) for r so this is poor placement to begin to correct in my opinion

[@madmaster8304]

Born and raised Australian and this is not how I do my /r/ sounds.

[@speechausclinic]

Mad Master there is variance. This is one method we use to help clients make a clearer /r/ than a trill or a /j/ as in yellow. It’s easier to stimulate because there are concrete points of contact that helps people know they formed it differently from their substitution. In Australia some natives don’t round the lips or contact the teeth so much BUT the tongue will go back and any difference observed between that posture and this one is marginal.

[@std808]

Mad Master you probably schwa like a beast

[@junglistgrrl]

Those yellow nails are too intense

[@madamedellaporte4214]

You move and open your mouth WAY too much to sound stralian