@@gabbielogan9271 I aced 2 years of Spanish without knowing how to trill bc i got everything else - I am in the same boat trying to learn this phonetic skill but I am not allowing it to prevent my progress! I also have a big gap between my front teeth and my tongue doesn't stick out very far because of that weird fleshy thing underneath it going so far forward that may be impending me? I also had issues with "r" sounds that I went to English speech therapy for so I think it's actually physically impossible for me
R's are very strong in my native tongue. I've had a speech impediment for 30+ years. Went to speech therapy for years when I was a kid. I just learnt in 4 minutes to trill my tongue for the first time. I've never managed to make that sound before. No one ever tried to teach it this way.
The problem is when you're trying to hard to learn something you become tense and that makes it harder, when you relax it's much easier, that was my problem in schooling, and that was my problem with this, the hardest thing I've had to unlearn was that learning was supposed to be stressful
My Spanish teacher told us that if you say “pot of tea” normal speed and then get faster and faster, you can do roll your r’s. I’m half Hispanic, my whole family except me can roll their r’s and this is very helpful. Don’t worry about air flow, just say “pot of tea” really fast, but try not to purposefully try a rolled r. Hope this helps, it helped me
My fiance is Mexican and I'm trying to learn Spanish to better communicate with his family and constantly messing up my r's is certainly embarrassing haha
Everyone can do it. It just needs practicing. For some faster and for others slower. But in the end everybody will get there if they keep practicing. I am learning Spanish too and this is freaking hard but I keep practicing. It is just that we are not used to the "erre" and that we have never used the tongue for the "erre". My Spanish teacher (who speaks Spanish like a native) told us that she needed 5 months of practicing the "erre". So will keep practicing. Good luck to you all. Stay positive, amigos!
Not everyone can do it. Some people have speech pathologies that prevent them from ever trilling the r. I had surgery on my tongue as a small child, and after 18 years of speaking spanish and living in Latin America, I am no closer to trilling my r's than on day one. Sadly, if you don't get it after a few months, you probably need surgery.
If I were to describe it better, I'd say not so much relax, but remove as much tension, then try to limit the tension during the movement, I'd recommend starting with just getting the movement that keeps from going past that ridge, from there after it starts feeling natural, try it with the airflow.
This just made me angry. I'm not faulting the person who posted this, I'm just very angry that I can't seem to get it and I have no idea what I'm doing wrong
Just put your relaxed/soft tongue in the "D" position (closing the airflow) and as you push the airflow such as to escape the tongue valve, the tongue will flap like a flag creating the Rrrrrr sound
I always wondered why my r's sounded weird/long in english. This makes so much sense. My rs have been made with the front of my mouth. I had never thought of people trying to roll their rs by repeatedly saying r since Spanish was my native tongue (I learned English at the age of five in school) rather than, as you put it, waving your tongue like a flag. This was some wonderful insight for me. Will definitely help me clarify my rs. Thank you.
I finally learned how to roll my rs. here are some tips that helped me learn it fairly quickly. 1. RELAXATION of tongue is very important. This is probably the most important thing imo. What I first did was tongue stretching exercises. if your tongue cannot stretch easily, it will be tense when try let it touch the roof of your mouth. Try putting your tongue behind your front teeth, hold it there and open your mouth slowly. Dont force yourself; if you feel any pain stop and take a break. You can do the same thing but move your tongue left and right. These are the tongue stretches that I did. 2. When your tongue is tense all the time, it will be hard to tell if it is relaxed or not. Go in front of a mirror and stick your tongue out. You will notice it is thin. This is what your tongue is like when it is tense. Now relax your tongue. It should be flat and round. Lean your head back and try putting your tongue to the alveolar ridge. While leaning your head back, look in the mirror to check if it is relaxed(flat and round) , or tense (compact and thin). During any attempts, always keep an eye on your tongue. 3. What worked best for me was just exhaling instead of doing the 'f' sound. My mouth was also doing a smilling movement and it was slightly open. When exhaling, exhale hard enough so that a sound is created. Initially I had to inhale alot and then exhale pretty hard, but after some time my exhales were not as nearly as hard as when I first started. If you arent making any sound (air is just passing through, no vibrations at all) your tongue is not relaxed enough and may be too far away from the top of your mouth. 4. If you have trouble with making a sound, lean your head back further so that your tongue can more easily touch the ridge. At one point, i was lying on my back on the couch because when lying down, your tongue very easily touches your alveolar ridge. This means it can be relaxed more, allowing the air to vibrate the tongue. Once you manage to make a decent sound lying down, try lean your head more forward until you can make the same sound while your head is in its normal upright position. 5. If you aren't sure where to exactly place the tongue, try different places. When exhaling adjust your tongue. Find the place that manages to make the loudest sound or vibrates the most and repeatedly put your tongue into that position. It is about muscle memory, so you cannot learn it immediately. What worked for me was putting my tongue just a bit further back. Once I figured out how to roll my rs, the position came naturally, so I actuallly do not know what my tongue placement is anymore 😂 If you are reading this, good luck with trilling your rs, I hope my tips helped.
The leaning back is what made it possible for me. Thank youuu so much. I was trying it for years. I read so much about different exercises and I never understood how it can be possible have the tongue in the right position and relaxed. Your tip with the leaning back made me finally do it😭😭😭
Why would you need to stretch your tongue to reach the top of your mouth or the back of your teeth? At rest I have to have my tongue rolled under itself if I want my teeth closed and it always touches the roof of my mouth. My tongue touches my teeth for pretty much every letter I say, so not sure about trying a different position, what other positions are there other than relaxed (rolled, touching teeth & roof of mouth) and sticking out of the mouth? Pulling it backwards just blocks too much airflow to get any proper sounds out.
I was able to have a Spanish accent while speaking it and purring my whole life. But within 2 minutes, after 10+ years, I was finally able to start to roll my R's. I never thought this day would come, thank you
For those who aged above 12 who never practicing during childhood need to soften their tongue first..Our tongue before 12 yo is still soft so it is easy to vibrate them. u need to put the tip of ur tongue at the palate of ur mouth gently and dont force it.. if u force it the tongue will become tense and hard to vibrate. Then blow air from ur mouth as hard as u can. The tongue will feels like vibrating if u place them right. I need to do this everyday for one month to soften my tongue so that they can easily vibrate even if i blow air softly
pulse oh do you. well i'm german. never needed it except for singing in a choir lol. unfortunately a bunch of other laguages won't let me get away with this
HOWWWW?? it's been an hour and I'm still not able to do it 😭😭 do I breathe slowly or quickly while rolling my Rs?? I have no idea if my tongue placement is even right like it's confusing...
@@nevrevrbeenmehaha I guess I was lucky. Maybe you can try to look up ( your face look at the ceiling) when you do it, when you look up, your tongue will be quite relaxed, and it should do the R’s 😙
On February 23rd I watched loads of videos, including this one. I couldnt roll my r’s On March 15th i was just casually doing a short rolled r and ended up doing a long one. Since that day, I can roll my r’s until i run out of breath. Here’s what you should try: Firstly, you want to be able to do a single roll, so say TDA (pronounced ‘ta-da’ but shorter like ‘tih-da’) over and over until it makes a rolled ‘Dra’ sound. Then repeat this ‘dra’ sound for some time until you are able to make a very short rolled ‘drrr’ sound, which might just stop after a tiny bit of rolling. Everyday after that, make all these short ‘drr’ or ‘brr’ sounds just casually, more like a habit like whistling or humming. For me, I wasnt trying to do a full long roll, it just became a habit. So everyday from February 23rd until the evening of March 15th, I was doing these short ‘brrr’ sounds and suddenly it lasted a tiny bit longer than normal. So i did it again and i was able to do it even longer. To make it into an “rrrrr” sound without needing a “d” or “b” infront, I basically imagined I was saying the letter “h” infront (which is basically just the sound of breath) so it was like “hrrrrr” which is the same as just “rrrrrr” I kept repeating these longer ‘rrrrrrr’ sounds all evening until i could do an ‘infinite’ one. Now it’s March 17th and I can do those infinte ‘rrrrrrrr’ sounds until i run out of breath. The trick is that once those short ‘brrr’ sounds become a habit, you can do them without thinking, and when you relax and do it, it’ll eventually just become a longer one. Here's the video from which I discovered this method: ruclips.net/video/V9LQDTiDcrA/видео.html PLEASE KEEP UP LEARNING TO ROLL YOUR R’s!! I feel really proud of myself for getting it because I felt so useless and stupid when all the videos I watched werent working. It’ll help you with lots of languages and it’s a cool skill to have.
I am turning 23 this month, and you are the first person that explained this in a way that made sense! I can finally do it! Thank you so much! I thought I was just an outlier and would never be able to roll my R’s! I highly recommend this video!
I can roll my R's now, but it took me 8 months to do so. Fortunately, it clicked for me one day when I tried practicing saying the words "Dramón", emphasizing the "Dra" part of the word. For me I managed to be able to control my R's after practicing saying that word. Hope this can help someone else out there! EDIT: To everyone replying, I'm glad to hear it works for you! You'll be rolling your R's like a pro in no time ;) EDIT #2: Pro tip is to challenge rolling your R's by saying the word "Ramón". Also, I'm so happy to read the comments of your improvements!
try to roll by putting the tip of your tongue on your palate, imagine there is something stuck on the roof of your mouth, play around there, i cannot do it behind the teeth but i can do it this way, not as practial but sounds right
I didn’t even need to watch the video. Just the thumbnail was enough for it to work for me. I’ve tried a few times over the years to get it right and for some reason, this thumbnail just clicked it in for me. Thank you. I’ll probably watch the video to see if I can get a clearer roll because it’s about 50-50 when I try to do it quietly.
I genuinely cry out of frustration when I try to do this 😂 one time in my French class the teacher told me to roll my r and I tried but sounded like I was gagging. Everyone laughed and I was really sad because I tried my best but I couldn’t do it. Still can’t 😔
Don't worry! French R is different to this, french R comes from the back of the throat and is very different to this kind of R. You're kinda supposed to sound like you're gagging.
Alright I don’t know if this might help because I’m not a teacher, but I am a spanish native speaker. I can still do it with tensions in my tongue, it just produces a stronger sound. So I would say the main tip is to not place the tongue too far back. I tried to do it with his steps and he does a weird thing with his lower lip when producing the F sound. I don’t know if every English speaker does it like that, but that stopped me from being able to roll my Rs lmao. So I tried my own way of producing the F sound and then placed my tongue in the way and voilá “frrrrrrrrrr”. I did notice that is is a very specific point in between my teeth and the roof, and if I place my tongue somewhere else it stops working, so try to find the right spot for you. ALSO, very important: not all my tongue is flapping. Like, not even the whole tip of the tongue, it’s just the right side of the tip of my tongue. And if I try to direct the air to the left I stop producing the sound. Maybe it’s the way I learned to do it, but do have in mind that you don’t have to make the whole tongue vibrate. Sorry for the long reply, but I thought this could be helpful.
@@zamooti4505 OH. MY. GOD. I don't know if you'll ever see this, but I took your advice about not making the full "F" sound like he is but a more relaxed one, and IT FREAKING WORKED. Mostly. I'll still need to practice, and I doubt there's any way I can incorporate this into a word, but just that little microsecond of a little trill was thrilling lol. You have no idea how happy I am about this. I am 35 effing years old and have been trying to learn how to do this MY ENTIRE LIFE. You deserve allllll the thank yous, so, yeah, THANK YOU!
Dude its worse for me i forgot how to speak Spanish because i was to scared to speak it so i didnt speak it for 4 years and now im stuck with english i can still trill my r's tho
I feel like I've failed life. I can't even do a simple thing. But looking at these comments make me happy because I'm not the only on who's failed in life
I haven't ever been able to do this but I made some progress today! My tip is to remember that the breath has to come from your core instead of your head!! I was trying to practice quietly, but as soon as I remembered to breath with my diaphram the first attempt after came out a lil more trilly 🥰
Same with Latvians.. like I have like heavily rolled r's when I speak cause 1. Braces and 2. Haven't lived in Latvia in ages. But kids in Latvia are having to be taught to roll their r's
I don't understand how you keep your tongue relaxed whilst lifting it up. I can relax my tongue so that it just lays on the bottom of my mouth but in order to lift it I have to tense it. It's like saying flex your bicep without it tensing? I don't understand
punkstjimmyF1 Using your analogy, think of lifting your arm and keeping your hand relaxed. You lift from the shoulder and you can keep your hand completely relaxed. Likewise, you can keep the tip of the tongue relaxed while lifting from its base.
@@andyscott5277 As a Finn with a dialect of especially strong trilled r, I'd say that might be true, but the tension should be as minimal as possible, almost non-existent, so that the tip of your tongue only very lightly touches the front part of your palate, or whatever. Never actually thought about that, but perhaps my tongue most of the time is in the "r-position" when my mouth is shut, so, when pronouncing a word starting with an r-sound, e.g. rääkätä, to torment, I only need to open my mouth and lightly push air through it, without doing anything to position the tip of my tongue! 🥶
YES! I absolutely H A T E it when people say "relax your tongue"! It means nothing to someone who has no idea if their tongue is relaxed in the first place.
True I know that feeling, I was there too bro haha. But you have to keep your chin up because the thing is that we all can do it, see everyone actually innately knows how to do it, so to do it you just have to know how to do it too. Hope this helps ;)
I went to a child doctor from the ages of 4-10 trying to learn this. Gave up on it for a few years. Never knew a random 6 minute video would be the key for me to learn
Yep. i think its officially declared that its genetic. Ive been trying to do this for months cant do it. And there were people trying it for years now so yeah some us are unfortunetly not one of those people with those genetics.
Bless you, I've struggled to do this my entire life but I'm trying to learn Russian right now and after watching this a few times and practicing for a couple hours I'm actually doing it!!! I'm so stoked!
OMG THANK YOU. After following your exercice, I can pronounce the Rs again with ease! Had been struggeling with the R sound but after this video it‘s a piece of cake🎉
GUYS I FIGURED IT OUT. I couldn't do this my entire life but this video finally helped me! The restricted stream of airflow is super important. I realized I had my mouth too open and my tongue too high and the air was just rushing out. Where you put your tongue depends on the shape and size of your mouth. I had to press the tip of my tongue against the back of my top front teeth. The position is very close to the "th" sound as in "this" or "think." The difference is you must completely block the airflow by pressing your tongue against the back of your teeth/gum line. Try to exhale, and feel the pressure against the TIP of your tongue. You want to force the air directly through/between the tip of your tongue and your two front teeth. Back off or increase the pressure from the tip of your tongue against your teeth until you hit the sweet spot where it starts to vibrate or trill. If you hear air hissing out of your mouth you need to block it with your tongue. If you can't push the air out at all, your tongue is pushing too hard. Look for that balance where the air comes out "bumpy." Finally, I strangely find it easier to do when I'm on my stomach, facing the floor. Maybe it helps relax my tongue, I'm not sure, but give it a shot. Good luck!
It's crazy how there's a science behind this considering I've been doing it since I learned how to speak. I never used to say R's with the back of my mouth and often I feel scared I'll swallow my tongue if I do lmao. I love learning how other people perceive things I'm just kind of used to, it's absolutely fascinating!
Wish I was you man, the only way I can do the rolled R sound is with the back of my throat, and it sounds more like purring. It sounds mildly convincing, cause I can't do it with my tongue for the life of me. Pronouncing russian? Yeah, no problem, doing R's? Now that's the bane of my existing. It annoys me to no end cause I want so badly to improve my Spanish, since it was my grandpa's mother tongue. ಥ‿ಥ
@@gabrielabatista6016 Hopefully you get the hang of it at some point. I grew up in Scotland so I was prodominently around people who rolled their R's and just kind of picked it up naturally. Practice makes perfect, so keep at it and I'm sure you'll be a natural in no time!
@@spanglyyapper3484 I'll try, thanks. It's kinda hard for me cause I live in Brazil, more specifically the state of Rio (the city with the same name is the capital of the state, btw), and in addition to the fact we don't roll R's in portuguese, on my state's regional accent, the RR sound is actually way softer than in the rest of the country, barely spoken even; so I have to go from a sound that I'm used to being soft to it being hard and thrilled, it's kinda hard, cognates don't this make it any easier as well, many words are the same, or almost the same, just with minor differences, so it make my brain glitch.
@@gabrielabatista6016 Lmao, language can be confusing as hell, especially getting down to the pronunciation of different words and phrases. Hell, I can barely speak English most days lmfao, and I was RAISED on the language!
@@spanglyyapper3484 lol, same. Sometimes I mix english with Portuguese, or forget stuff on portuguese, my first language. My mom only now stopped complaining about it cause my english proficiency allowed me to skip 5 years in a English course, but she often looks at me like I'm crazy.
You dont even have a clue how much this means to me and the sheer joy I feel from being able to do this I love phonetics but couldn't do this and this is the best part of my two favourite sounds ɾ and ʀ and holy oh my lord man
My parents probably think im muttering devil chants to myself in my room, i just keep going "el burro, el burro, el burro" to myself in the dark......jc
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It's 4am and I'm still sounding like a distressed minecraft villager. *HAGH*
I’m crying 😂
Pocket Phantom lmao
666th like woooo
This is GOLD I’m dying
LMAO
My tongue has never felt more unrelaxed
Lol same
Ikr, I have to learn this for Spanish, or else I'm going to fail and I CAN NOT fail, or I will get sick mentally🤦🏼♀️
@@gabbielogan9271 oof gl
@@gabbielogan9271 I aced 2 years of Spanish without knowing how to trill bc i got everything else - I am in the same boat trying to learn this phonetic skill but I am not allowing it to prevent my progress!
I also have a big gap between my front teeth and my tongue doesn't stick out very far because of that weird fleshy thing underneath it going so far forward that may be impending me? I also had issues with "r" sounds that I went to English speech therapy for so I think it's actually physically impossible for me
righhht, i can't be relaxed now 😔
so i was trying to do this and i managed to whistle. Not what i was aiming for but i couldnt do that either so i learned something
😂😂😂
beth scholes LMAOO
beth scholes I woke my daughter up laughing at this 🤣🤣
gj from 3 years from then
so you can now teach the German storm trooper how to whistle.
R's are very strong in my native tongue. I've had a speech impediment for 30+ years. Went to speech therapy for years when I was a kid. I just learnt in 4 minutes to trill my tongue for the first time. I've never managed to make that sound before. No one ever tried to teach it this way.
That’s wonderful! Thank you for the comment.
The problem is when you're trying to hard to learn something you become tense and that makes it harder, when you relax it's much easier, that was my problem in schooling, and that was my problem with this, the hardest thing I've had to unlearn was that learning was supposed to be stressful
This man is out here saving lives!
same dude
Right on!!!
:Me 1am - FFFFFFRRR FFFFRRRR
:Parents Are you trying to mate with a tiger?
Mr. Hemlig 😂
At the moment legit me it is 12:35am and i havent accomplished anything
😂
Omg 😂😂😂😂😂
Jajajaja *laughing in spanish*
I'm just obsessively growling at this point
HONESTLY SAME AND I HATE IT
Same XD
Does it sound like, “Hhgehhgeghhagaggehgfs?”
Oh god at least I'm not the only one. Lmao I sound like a idiot
ME TOO AND IT’S 1AM AND MY FAMILY IS GONNA THINK I’M CRAZY
People are just watching me on the bus while I go ‘DLRLDLDLLELDDLLELRLD’
J Falcon You have so much confidence in yourself.... give me some of that confidence plz
They should be jealous that you are using your time wisely to LEARN.
@@DEV3N87 Preach!
@@colbyeverly86 in this day, in the age of information, ignorance is simply a choice.
@@DEV3N87 couldn't agree more
Started doing this trying to roll my r's, learned how to whistle in the process
how
lmao _what?_
Same omg
Can’t do either of those
@@Person________sssaaammeee :'D
My Spanish teacher told us that if you say “pot of tea” normal speed and then get faster and faster, you can do roll your r’s. I’m half Hispanic, my whole family except me can roll their r’s and this is very helpful. Don’t worry about air flow, just say “pot of tea” really fast, but try not to purposefully try a rolled r. Hope this helps, it helped me
Holy fuck it works
Thanks man
@@dev-mw7ct SAME DEV. SAME
HOLY FUCK
Holy shit this should be the top rated comment lmao!
garbanzo bean
Genius
Make sure your tongue is completely relaxed
*proceeds to swallow tongue*
Lmfao same dude
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This comment made my day.
Fr i was rlly close to doing it this made me laugh and i lost it 😌
XDDD
"bro you need to relax your tongue while also lifting it up"
"bro just relax your tongue bro"
that’s what he said
Most underrated comment i've encountered this had me wheezing
Are you Juan from my class or something cause he says bro start and end of a sentence
"relax your tongue while moving it that simple"
@@the_glitched_nightmare4852 nah that’s Nicholas
this is so HUMILIATING
I always make sure that no one is near me when I practice
I KNOW RIGHT!!!
i laughed out loud about this comment when i started watching the video thank you lol
the comments on this video are hysterical and i agree with all of them, hardest thing i've ever tried to do
My fiance is Mexican and I'm trying to learn Spanish to better communicate with his family and constantly messing up my r's is certainly embarrassing haha
Everyone: learns this for Spanish or Russian
Me: THE TING GOES SKRRRRRRAAAAAAA
My first language was russian and yet here i am watching this video
I'm learning it for thai
Big shaq
@@thequietkid2754 your lahu?
Same 😂
This just made me want to cry.
I think some people just can't do it.
kit kat i've never been able to do it all my life. I'm on my second day trying cuz im learning spanish atm
Everyone can do it. It just needs practicing. For some faster and for others slower. But in the end everybody will get there if they keep practicing. I am learning Spanish too and this is freaking hard but I keep practicing. It is just that we are not used to the "erre" and that we have never used the tongue for the "erre". My Spanish teacher (who speaks Spanish like a native) told us that she needed 5 months of practicing the "erre". So will keep practicing. Good luck to you all. Stay positive, amigos!
Not everyone can do it. Some people have speech pathologies that prevent them from ever trilling the r. I had surgery on my tongue as a small child, and after 18 years of speaking spanish and living in Latin America, I am no closer to trilling my r's than on day one. Sadly, if you don't get it after a few months, you probably need surgery.
GoTran1986 I am learning Russian!
Me: thinking this would be a piece of cake
Me 20 minutes later: FFFFFFFFZZZZZZZZ FFFFFRZZZZZZZZ
FRRRRR
Put you’re tongue behind you top teeth in the middle and then just try to pull it without moving you’re tongue
And you’re mouth needs to be open
I literaly sound like a creeper
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No teacher has ever emphasized "not to curl the tongue back" like you did. I just made a tiny trilled R sound, thank you so much!
I always get lost at the part where people tell me to completely relax my tongue and THEN move it. Moving it unrelaxes it instantly
The air that’s u breathe out should move the tongue ur tongue doesn’t really manually move
I am saxaphone player and I know for a fact you are very very wrong about that
Alpaca Master were u talking to me?
No
If I were to describe it better, I'd say not so much relax, but remove as much tension, then try to limit the tension during the movement, I'd recommend starting with just getting the movement that keeps from going past that ridge, from there after it starts feeling natural, try it with the airflow.
Linguisticator: Your tongue has to be completely relaxed, no tension.
Me turning to massage therapist: So, this may be a strange request...
🤣🤣
@BradynLee09
@Dokusei Sus*
LOOOL
This is the FUNNIESt thing help I'm dying
LMAO?!
Instructions unclear: I'm now the leader of the russian mafia and married to a seal.
God damn it Patrick not this again
Oh no patrick
We talked about this
Patrick no....
i hate when that happens its so annoying
I’ve been trying to roll my Rs for TWENTY ONE YEARS and you were able to teach me in five minutes!!!! What sorcery is this??
21!!! Even this video can’t help me im done for
"you might spit a bit"
Me just literally spiting all over my laptop
My bed sheets are now darker because of how much I did it
Now I'm in an endless loop of either making motorboat sounds or really weird fart sounds and laughing really hard at myself...
TheScoliosisWarrior11 [Warrior] your profile pic is gorgeous
Lol
This just made me angry. I'm not faulting the person who posted this, I'm just very angry that I can't seem to get it and I have no idea what I'm doing wrong
I feel you
I feel exactly the same
Just put your relaxed/soft tongue in the "D" position (closing the airflow) and as you push the airflow such as to escape the tongue valve, the tongue will flap like a flag creating the Rrrrrr sound
@@gabrielcornea9119 Still can't do it
Same dude, i live in South Africa, our language Afrikaans ONLY trills their R's and i sound like an idiot cause i cant do it
I always wondered why my r's sounded weird/long in english. This makes so much sense. My rs have been made with the front of my mouth. I had never thought of people trying to roll their rs by repeatedly saying r since Spanish was my native tongue (I learned English at the age of five in school) rather than, as you put it, waving your tongue like a flag. This was some wonderful insight for me. Will definitely help me clarify my rs. Thank you.
No one:
Me at 3:32 AM: “FFFFRRRR”
*gets text from mom to stfu*
I actually laughed out loud
LMAOOO😂😂😂😂
Lol
Same
🤣🙋🏻♀️me too
This just pissed me off even more.
just try saying skkrrrrrra with your toung behind you're teeth sorry for my grammers
Same
@@lil_m3h yo thanks bro!
EXACTLY
@@lil_m3h The ting goes skrrrahh, pap, pap, ka-ka-ka
Skibiki-pap-pap, and a pu-pu-pudrrrr-boom
Skya, du-du-ku-ku-dun-dun
Poom, poom
I'm learning Spanish and I honestly hate not being able to roll my r's
Josh Ewing sameeee!!!!
@Winter Bleu I did that too 😂
Lol that's why I came here
I don't bother trying because I have the same problem 😞
Same, oh same......
I finally learned how to roll my rs. here are some tips that helped me learn it fairly quickly.
1. RELAXATION of tongue is very important. This is probably the most important thing imo.
What I first did was tongue stretching exercises. if your tongue cannot stretch easily, it will be tense when try let it touch the roof of your mouth. Try putting your tongue behind your front teeth, hold it there and open your mouth slowly. Dont force yourself; if you feel any pain stop and take a break. You can do the same thing but move your tongue left and right. These are the tongue stretches that I did.
2. When your tongue is tense all the time, it will be hard to tell if it is relaxed or not. Go in front of a mirror and stick your tongue out. You will notice it is thin. This is what your tongue is like when it is tense. Now relax your tongue. It should be flat and round. Lean your head back and try putting your tongue to the alveolar ridge. While leaning your head back, look in the mirror to check if it is relaxed(flat and round) , or tense (compact and thin). During any attempts, always keep an eye on your tongue.
3. What worked best for me was just exhaling instead of doing the 'f' sound. My mouth was also doing a smilling movement and it was slightly open. When exhaling, exhale hard enough so that a sound is created. Initially I had to inhale alot and then exhale pretty hard, but after some time my exhales were not as nearly as hard as when I first started. If you arent making any sound (air is just passing through, no vibrations at all) your tongue is not relaxed enough and may be too far away from the top of your mouth.
4. If you have trouble with making a sound, lean your head back further so that your tongue can more easily touch the ridge. At one point, i was lying on my back on the couch because when lying down, your tongue very easily touches your alveolar ridge. This means it can be relaxed more, allowing the air to vibrate the tongue.
Once you manage to make a decent sound lying down, try lean your head more forward until you can make the same sound while your head is in its normal upright position.
5. If you aren't sure where to exactly place the tongue, try different places. When exhaling adjust your tongue. Find the place that manages to make the loudest sound or vibrates the most and repeatedly put your tongue into that position. It is about muscle memory, so you cannot learn it immediately. What worked for me was putting my tongue just a bit further back. Once I figured out how to roll my rs, the position came naturally, so I actuallly do not know what my tongue placement is anymore 😂
If you are reading this, good luck with trilling your rs, I hope my tips helped.
Omg this literally worked right away
The leaning back is what made it possible for me. Thank youuu so much. I was trying it for years. I read so much about different exercises and I never understood how it can be possible have the tongue in the right position and relaxed. Your tip with the leaning back made me finally do it😭😭😭
W/o the 'f' helped SO much. It sounds like a baby raspberry rn, but its a start 😄 thx
I had to go to the ER due to breaking my jaw from all the tongue gymnastics. JK, but kinda seriously.
Why would you need to stretch your tongue to reach the top of your mouth or the back of your teeth? At rest I have to have my tongue rolled under itself if I want my teeth closed and it always touches the roof of my mouth. My tongue touches my teeth for pretty much every letter I say, so not sure about trying a different position, what other positions are there other than relaxed (rolled, touching teeth & roof of mouth) and sticking out of the mouth? Pulling it backwards just blocks too much airflow to get any proper sounds out.
Yall I just summoned a demon doing this, help I wasn't prepared for this
Aye send it over to me. I want the demon
TRXYE nigga what 😂
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I was not born with this genetic mutation
sienna meadows relatable
That’s what I though at first... til’ now!!!!
yeah. I think that whistling and trilled r's are the same mutation
I can whistle any kind of songs but thrilled r is like a foreign language to me, fk it's so difficult
FUCKING SAME DUDE
I was able to have a Spanish accent while speaking it and purring my whole life. But within 2 minutes, after 10+ years, I was finally able to start to roll my R's. I never thought this day would come, thank you
This just left me making the sound “fffffffffffff” at 4am.
haha me but at 1 am
I like musicals *outside of Hamilton* I remember you from Yiay
He doesn't know what he's talking about,,,, all you gotta do is put air under your tongue when you try to say French,,,,,
@@ohshucks7156 Well, it is the same what he said. Start with f, and try that rolling r sound. What you say after that, doesn't matter.
Same but at 6am
For those who aged above 12 who never practicing during childhood need to soften their tongue first..Our tongue before 12 yo is still soft so it is easy to vibrate them.
u need to put the tip of ur tongue at the palate of ur mouth gently and dont force it.. if u force it the tongue will become tense and hard to vibrate.
Then blow air from ur mouth as hard as u can. The tongue will feels like vibrating if u place them right.
I need to do this everyday for one month to soften my tongue so that they can easily vibrate even if i blow air softly
Plis like your comment so more people can see it
I gift you 3 likes from all my accounts
soy 13
eehhhehehe it tickles
holy shit this works
I STILL CAN'T ROLL MY R'S AND IT PISSES ME OFF
Cristina Dima same I CANT FUCKING DO IT
Saaaaame
Im an arab and I want to pronounce the American R. its driving me crazy
I'm triggurd
Cristina Dima okurrt
I have been trying to do this ever since I was a child (probably for 20 years) and within 3 minutes this video taught me. Thank you.
I love how Im looking at the comments instead of listening to the video🤦♂️
Same
OMG me too, and busting out laughing
I'm lacking oxygen in my brain after trying it 5 mins.
Physiologically you're actually lacking CO2 and your oxygen is at near 100%. At least if you're as dizzy as i am right now... FRRRRR FRRRRR FRRRRRRR
I couldn't role my R's before reading this comment section, when I was laughing I read one and I rolled it perfectly- wtf
well done😂😂
After dozens of tutorials over multiple years, I am finally able to trill my Rs thanks to this one
it's 4am and
me: *bee noises*
me after 4 minutes of the video: *bee noises intensify*
How to trill your R's,
Step one: Forget about it, it aint happening. lol
fuk this i quit bout to jump out a window. maybe ill get the air flow that way.
You're a liar and you should be ashamed, Jeff.
Lmao that was too fcking funny,😂 i feel yourrrrrghgsghgs pain though.
The Trollsanity Family Im trying to learn German so i really need to master this, some how.
pulse oh do you. well i'm german. never needed it except for singing in a choir lol. unfortunately a bunch of other laguages won't let me get away with this
The Trollsanity Family HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA THAT WAS FUNNY BUT SAD
I'm a Mandarin speaker and haven't been able to thrill my Rs in my whole life. This method worked for me. Thank you!
Him: I’m gonna do this by sheer force of will
Me: *in tears* you bet your ass I am
have u done it yet
I've been watching so many of these videos and I still end up making gargling noises and spitting on my screen
ivileece same
😂
Same 😭
toxicdoqs sameee
Me too...I can't believe that this is something 'anyone' can do, no matter how hard I try I just can't get it, it's so frustrating :(
I'm making my dog panic because she's hearing suspicious noises
my dog gets mad as fuck
こにちは、ケロちゃん！
same haha
OMGGGGGGGGG!!! I follow your step and INSTANTLY be able to do it in 5 MINSSSSSS. MUCH APPRECIATED
HOWWWW?? it's been an hour and I'm still not able to do it 😭😭 do I breathe slowly or quickly while rolling my Rs?? I have no idea if my tongue placement is even right like it's confusing...
@@nevrevrbeenmehaha I guess I was lucky. Maybe you can try to look up ( your face look at the ceiling) when you do it, when you look up, your tongue will be quite relaxed, and it should do the R’s 😙
On February 23rd I watched loads of videos, including this one. I couldnt roll my r’s
On March 15th i was just casually doing a short rolled r and ended up doing a long one. Since that day, I can roll my r’s until i run out of breath.
Here’s what you should try:
Firstly, you want to be able to do a single roll, so say TDA (pronounced ‘ta-da’ but shorter like ‘tih-da’)
over and over until it makes a rolled ‘Dra’ sound.
Then repeat this ‘dra’ sound for some time until you are able to make a very short rolled ‘drrr’ sound, which might just stop after a tiny bit of rolling.
Everyday after that, make all these short ‘drr’ or ‘brr’ sounds just casually, more like a habit like whistling or humming. For me, I wasnt trying to do a full long roll, it just became a habit.
So everyday from February 23rd until the evening of March 15th, I was doing these short ‘brrr’ sounds and suddenly it lasted a tiny bit longer than normal. So i did it again and i was able to do it even longer. To make it into an “rrrrr” sound without needing a “d” or “b” infront, I basically imagined I was saying the letter “h” infront (which is basically just the sound of breath) so it was like “hrrrrr” which is the same as just “rrrrrr”
I kept repeating these longer ‘rrrrrrr’ sounds all evening until i could do an ‘infinite’ one.
Now it’s March 17th and I can do those infinte ‘rrrrrrrr’ sounds until i run out of breath.
The trick is that once those short ‘brrr’ sounds become a habit, you can do them without thinking, and when you relax and do it, it’ll eventually just become a longer one.
Here's the video from which I discovered this method:
ruclips.net/video/V9LQDTiDcrA/видео.html
PLEASE KEEP UP LEARNING TO ROLL YOUR R’s!!
I feel really proud of myself for getting it because I felt so useless and stupid when all the videos I watched werent working. It’ll help you with lots of languages and it’s a cool skill to have.
Zyklon Blæ THIS ACTUALLY SLIGHTLY WORKS OH MY
Yep this works took me 3 days to learn it, just takes loads of practice
Wow thank you! I’ve been doing the drr sound for about 20 minutes and it’s helping so much.
Aisling Keating best of luck! I got it from this video ruclips.net/video/V9LQDTiDcrA/видео.html the first section about a normal rolled R helped a lot
On Febuary 23rd i was on my way to mars
My tongue is about as relaxed and soft as Dwayne Johnson's muscles
Buff tongue
Thanks for the nightmare fuel with that pfp btw
@@monophone903 yeah aye I’m seeing that at 4:50 am 😢
Where is the pfp from its cool
You trying to follow me boy
How to do the trill ( rolled Rs) :
Step 1: watch this video
Step 2: try to rolled Rs
Step 3: cry in a corner
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋlol
um...not helpful
Fix your grammar and I'll give you a like.
@@snow-puppetsofficial360 im Vietnamese :(
@@duwung6121 Oh sorry.
I am turning 23 this month, and you are the first person that explained this in a way that made sense! I can finally do it! Thank you so much! I thought I was just an outlier and would never be able to roll my R’s! I highly recommend this video!
Happy Birthday!
How long it took
My tongue: "What?! I don't get it?! What do you want me to do?!?!"
Fr my tongue is sweating
Isn’t that called spit
@@noone6991 spweat
@@noone6991 hello
During the span of the video I completely covered my computer screen with spit. I still can't trill my r's
Leah Russo that’s awesome. Lol!
Charlotte Simon My white friend can do this, and I’m Hispanic
I got dizzy from trying to make a F sound to much..
same
Cause you are running out of breath to often lol.
me too))
Same dude I almost passed out
It's HaiHai ffffff ffffffff fffffffff FUCK
Thanks, man. I've almost got it now. After a few hours, my throat is a bit sore, but its worth it.
at least i know how to roll a joint
Yes mate... Trill away on that bad boy
Lol 😆
Ayee XD
Zebre86 omg I love you 😭
amen brother
I can roll my R's now, but it took me 8 months to do so. Fortunately, it clicked for me one day when I tried practicing saying the words "Dramón", emphasizing the "Dra" part of the word. For me I managed to be able to control my R's after practicing saying that word. Hope this can help someone else out there!
EDIT: To everyone replying, I'm glad to hear it works for you! You'll be rolling your R's like a pro in no time ;)
EDIT #2: Pro tip is to challenge rolling your R's by saying the word "Ramón". Also, I'm so happy to read the comments of your improvements!
Wtf, after following this, I can do it in 30 minutes, thanks
Karen Mai wooahh i can actually do this
That’s a lot closer to rolling my Rs than any tutorials. Though it just sounds more like a buzzing Z than an articulated R.
I could do it since I was 3
This comment helped me a lot thank you
just spent the past hour "fpthhh"-ing. i feel like i've been running a marathon. time to call it a night
i wanna like but you've got 69 likes and i dont wanna ruin that
lolz!
try to roll by putting the tip of your tongue on your palate, imagine there is something stuck on the roof of your mouth, play around there, i cannot do it behind the teeth but i can do it this way, not as practial but sounds right
I didn’t even need to watch the video. Just the thumbnail was enough for it to work for me. I’ve tried a few times over the years to get it right and for some reason, this thumbnail just clicked it in for me. Thank you. I’ll probably watch the video to see if I can get a clearer roll because it’s about 50-50 when I try to do it quietly.
I genuinely cry out of frustration when I try to do this 😂 one time in my French class the teacher told me to roll my r and I tried but sounded like I was gagging. Everyone laughed and I was really sad because I tried my best but I couldn’t do it. Still can’t 😔
I find spanish r harder to pronounce than french r. French r is very airy and gutteral but i just cant get the rr in spanish
Don't worry! French R is different to this, french R comes from the back of the throat and is very different to this kind of R. You're kinda supposed to sound like you're gagging.
Lil girl LLL
do u have a tongue tie? Google some pics it might be the prob.
Weird your french teacher would request this given french r's can't roll.
I'm done. The neighbours just called the cops. Thought someone was being tickled to death.
😂😂😂
LMAOOOOO
Axion stfu
This is the funniest fucking comment I’ve ever seen HAHAHAH
wait what sound were u making john andrew
Alcohol is a muscle relaxant, I think I'll start with that!
previouslyachimp lol
this is great reasoning 😂
previouslyachimp dnd
Dpn't drink too much or else you could end up speaking russian )
Wow
The thing that makes me mad Is he explains it so well and everything he says makes sense it just takes time to do.
how the hell am i supposed to lift my tongue while im relaxing it???
what im sayiinnnn. makes no sense
Total paradox
Alright I don’t know if this might help because I’m not a teacher, but I am a spanish native speaker.
I can still do it with tensions in my tongue, it just produces a stronger sound. So I would say the main tip is to not place the tongue too far back.
I tried to do it with his steps and he does a weird thing with his lower lip when producing the F sound. I don’t know if every English speaker does it like that, but that stopped me from being able to roll my Rs lmao. So I tried my own way of producing the F sound and then placed my tongue in the way and voilá “frrrrrrrrrr”. I did notice that is is a very specific point in between my teeth and the roof, and if I place my tongue somewhere else it stops working, so try to find the right spot for you.
ALSO, very important: not all my tongue is flapping. Like, not even the whole tip of the tongue, it’s just the right side of the tip of my tongue. And if I try to direct the air to the left I stop producing the sound. Maybe it’s the way I learned to do it, but do have in mind that you don’t have to make the whole tongue vibrate.
Sorry for the long reply, but I thought this could be helpful.
*5 gum*
*stimulate your tongue*
@@zamooti4505 OH. MY. GOD. I don't know if you'll ever see this, but I took your advice about not making the full "F" sound like he is but a more relaxed one, and IT FREAKING WORKED. Mostly. I'll still need to practice, and I doubt there's any way I can incorporate this into a word, but just that little microsecond of a little trill was thrilling lol. You have no idea how happy I am about this. I am 35 effing years old and have been trying to learn how to do this MY ENTIRE LIFE. You deserve allllll the thank yous, so, yeah, THANK YOU!
Me being a native Spanish speaker: *can't trill their Rs*
Sameeee 😔😓
Dude its worse for me i forgot how to speak Spanish because i was to scared to speak it so i didnt speak it for 4 years and now im stuck with english i can still trill my r's tho
Same 🙋🏻♀️😂
I know about half of the language and I live less than two miles from Mexico but I still cant bloody do this properly. >:U
I learned Spanish when I was 3 and only spoke it but my tiny mind can’t hold to languages at once so when I learned English I forgot Spanish.
I feel like I've failed life. I can't even do a simple thing. But looking at these comments make me happy because I'm not the only on who's failed in life
I haven't ever been able to do this but I made some progress today! My tip is to remember that the breath has to come from your core instead of your head!! I was trying to practice quietly, but as soon as I remembered to breath with my diaphram the first attempt after came out a lil more trilly 🥰
All this taught me is that I personally have no muscle control over my own tongue
Your tongue : Dobby has no master
Why can’t I just be naturally gifted?!😭😂
Same with Latvians.. like I have like heavily rolled r's when I speak cause 1. Braces and 2. Haven't lived in Latvia in ages. But kids in Latvia are having to be taught to roll their r's
I said it while talking in french
Sadly, we can't all be Walter Mercado, where he perfected his "R's" every time.
@@TheManny717 sadly I accidentally roll my rs without meaning to
ikr
I don't understand how you keep your tongue relaxed whilst lifting it up. I can relax my tongue so that it just lays on the bottom of my mouth but in order to lift it I have to tense it.
It's like saying flex your bicep without it tensing? I don't understand
punkstjimmyF1 Using your analogy, think of lifting your arm and keeping your hand relaxed. You lift from the shoulder and you can keep your hand completely relaxed. Likewise, you can keep the tip of the tongue relaxed while lifting from its base.
Your whole tongue doesn't have to be relaxed, just the very tip.
+ChiaraDental OMG why didn't get say THAT
fuc these people
Ikr
Lived in Mexico for 4 years, never could get it. Just learned how in 4 minutes. Bro, life saver!!!!!
Me in the bathroom on my phone watching this at 1am: RrRrRrRrRrrrRrrarar
My family: 👁👄👁
LOL
Me trna say big Brlddd
@@charnicholasguy2661 Ong
Omfg same
Same 😭😭
Im disappointed in myself.
Im Dominican Mexican, and I’m here
SisteR ShooK I’m a Filipino and I’m here too
i'm mexican and i'm here-
Hispanic here. I'm a failure
Spanish isn't your indigenous language. European colonizers forced Spanish on your ancestors so don't feel bad.
I'm puerto rican
wow instead of having a relaxed tongue my tongue is actually getting quite a workout ;-;
BLACKPINK thai princess lalisa 🤣same
BLINK!!!!💜
if only relaxing could be my workout...
Same, mine has a six pack 🧐
HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO LIFT YOUR TONGUE WHILE ALSO RELAXING YOUR TONGUE
EXACTLY I CAN'T
Exactly! Doesn’t the act of lifting your tongue necessitate some amount of tension? 🤔
Facts bro
@@andyscott5277 As a Finn with a dialect of especially strong trilled r, I'd say that might be true, but the tension should be as minimal as possible, almost non-existent, so that the tip of your tongue only very lightly touches the front part of your palate, or whatever. Never actually thought about that, but perhaps my tongue most of the time is in the "r-position" when my mouth is shut, so, when pronouncing a word starting with an r-sound, e.g. rääkätä, to torment, I only need to open my mouth and lightly push air through it, without doing anything to position the tip of my tongue! 🥶
It feels to me more like trying to contract the area around the roof of your mouth slightly while also resting your tongue.
i think 90% of the people here are trying to learn how to do the “okurrr” thing 😂😂
Emily Claire 😂😂 I’m doing it rn
YUP😭
Same
Emily Claire yessss
Emily Claire EXACTLY
"Completely relax your tongue."
OK HOW
Right!
Sofia Joy let’s do a thing just cut my fucking tongue so it will be totally relaxed
YES! I absolutely H A T E it when people say "relax your tongue"! It means nothing to someone who has no idea if their tongue is relaxed in the first place.
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I wasnt feeling good until I read the comments
At first I was crying at how dumb I sound, and now I’m crying because of the comment section. 😂😂😂😂
I’m literally crying at the comments
Same😂🤣🤣🤣
Such a helpful video, thank you. I have watched hundreds of tutorials on this, and only this one has helped.
So glad to hear!
i accidentally learned to whistle doing this. still no roll
Kian Sedghinasab Lol
LOL OMG I am dying at your comment.
Lol
woah
0:10 "Anyone can do it." THE most CAP sentence ever sed😭
this is like blue meth grade cap right here, this shyt is damn near impossible.
Ikr like I can't do it cause I have an over bite, I just end up sounding like a broken hover :,)
@@ThatOnePizzaMan laughs in indian
@@Host-lessGhost I have an overbite too, yet after months of practice, I know how to do it. It takes a lot of getting used to
Cap 🧢
"Everyone can do it everyone knows how to do it you just need to know how to do it"
Profile pic matches lol
@@erentoraman2663 I was just about to say that
FOR REAL HAHAHA
True I know that feeling, I was there too bro haha. But you have to keep your chin up because the thing is that we all can do it, see everyone actually innately knows how to do it, so to do it you just have to know how to do it too.
Hope this helps ;)
I went to a child doctor from the ages of 4-10 trying to learn this. Gave up on it for a few years. Never knew a random 6 minute video would be the key for me to learn
My dentist just told me I physically cannot roll my rs because of my bone structure... 5 hours WASTED!
I wish you could show the xray to prove him correct.
Wtf
I can't because my tongue break was too long when I was a kid. I feel your pain.
how did u spend 5 hours doing this i-
Kara H Pure dedication.
Who else is so FREAKING lightheaded at this point and just feels like giving up?
Edit: Last Year In Late Fall I figured it out
so dizzy
Here in 2020, light-headed as fuck, still can't do it
Don't give up. Just keep practice and focus. One day you will be able to do it.
How
Yep. i think its officially declared that its genetic. Ive been trying to do this for months cant do it. And there were people trying it for years now so yeah some us are unfortunetly not one of those people with those genetics.
Bless you, I've struggled to do this my entire life but I'm trying to learn Russian right now and after watching this a few times and practicing for a couple hours I'm actually doing it!!! I'm so stoked!
OMG THANK YOU. After following your exercice, I can pronounce the Rs again with ease! Had been struggeling with the R sound but after this video it‘s a piece of cake🎉
What happened to your gains Gaston?!
😂😂😂
LOL
I've been trying to learn to do this for over 25 years, and in less than 10 minutes you've finally got me trilling! Thanks!
cap
wow congratulations
How is The soft r pronounced pls help
@@lily-pl2sfhey Ive been trying to do this too for a while and believe me this video was insane
I'm hispanic and I can't seem to do this at all, I'd be a great spanish speaker if I knew how to roll my r's💀
I’m Hispanic and ion know Spanish smh💔
@Jackson’s Account nigga how u gonna tell me what I am and what i am not tf?
@Jackson’s Account that’s not how that works…. it’s to be of spanish speaking decent, not that you literally have to speak spanish
@Jackson’s Account “relating to Spain or to Spanish-speaking countries, especially those of Latin America.”
@Jackson’s Account have you heard something called genes?
GUYS I FIGURED IT OUT. I couldn't do this my entire life but this video finally helped me!
The restricted stream of airflow is super important. I realized I had my mouth too open and my tongue too high and the air was just rushing out.
Where you put your tongue depends on the shape and size of your mouth. I had to press the tip of my tongue against the back of my top front teeth. The position is very close to the "th" sound as in "this" or "think." The difference is you must completely block the airflow by pressing your tongue against the back of your teeth/gum line.
Try to exhale, and feel the pressure against the TIP of your tongue. You want to force the air directly through/between the tip of your tongue and your two front teeth. Back off or increase the pressure from the tip of your tongue against your teeth until you hit the sweet spot where it starts to vibrate or trill.
If you hear air hissing out of your mouth you need to block it with your tongue. If you can't push the air out at all, your tongue is pushing too hard. Look for that balance where the air comes out "bumpy."
Finally, I strangely find it easier to do when I'm on my stomach, facing the floor. Maybe it helps relax my tongue, I'm not sure, but give it a shot.
Good luck!
I’m so triggered i can’t do it !!!!!!! I’m spanish and my family always makes fun of me when i speak Spanish because i can’t roll my r’s ughhhhh😭
I'm trying to learn Spanish and when I try to speak Spanish the words with the R's always frustrate me as I can't speak any of the words with R's 😂
Sammmmmme, only one in my latino family that can’t and I hate it.
I’m the only one in my family that doesn’t know how to trill my r’s
There're russians who can't make russian 'r' (which is like one flap of rolled 'r'). Bsck in time it was called 'french pronounce' ))
SAME IM COLOMBIAN AND *U N A B L E*
It's crazy how there's a science behind this considering I've been doing it since I learned how to speak. I never used to say R's with the back of my mouth and often I feel scared I'll swallow my tongue if I do lmao. I love learning how other people perceive things I'm just kind of used to, it's absolutely fascinating!
Wish I was you man, the only way I can do the rolled R sound is with the back of my throat, and it sounds more like purring. It sounds mildly convincing, cause I can't do it with my tongue for the life of me. Pronouncing russian? Yeah, no problem, doing R's? Now that's the bane of my existing.
It annoys me to no end cause I want so badly to improve my Spanish, since it was my grandpa's mother tongue. ಥ‿ಥ
@@gabrielabatista6016 Hopefully you get the hang of it at some point. I grew up in Scotland so I was prodominently around people who rolled their R's and just kind of picked it up naturally. Practice makes perfect, so keep at it and I'm sure you'll be a natural in no time!
@@spanglyyapper3484 I'll try, thanks. It's kinda hard for me cause I live in Brazil, more specifically the state of Rio (the city with the same name is the capital of the state, btw), and in addition to the fact we don't roll R's in portuguese, on my state's regional accent, the RR sound is actually way softer than in the rest of the country, barely spoken even; so I have to go from a sound that I'm used to being soft to it being hard and thrilled, it's kinda hard, cognates don't this make it any easier as well, many words are the same, or almost the same, just with minor differences, so it make my brain glitch.
@@gabrielabatista6016 Lmao, language can be confusing as hell, especially getting down to the pronunciation of different words and phrases. Hell, I can barely speak English most days lmfao, and I was RAISED on the language!
@@spanglyyapper3484 lol, same. Sometimes I mix english with Portuguese, or forget stuff on portuguese, my first language. My mom only now stopped complaining about it cause my english proficiency allowed me to skip 5 years in a English course, but she often looks at me like I'm crazy.
You dont even have a clue how much this means to me and the sheer joy I feel from being able to do this I love phonetics but couldn't do this and this is the best part of my two favourite sounds ɾ and ʀ and holy oh my lord man
My parents probably think im muttering devil chants to myself in my room, i just keep going "el burro, el burro, el burro" to myself in the dark......jc
Jaboi Jiraff 😂😭
I'm trying to say DA TING GOES SR-R-R-R-RAAA
same xD
Lantorn Omg, same here! After listening to Mans Not Hot, I want to learn about to do the "Sk-r-r-r-raaa" bit perfectly😂
Skidi pi PA pa pa pa
Me too
Lantorn That's really easy. xD
If i was born in Spain I would 100% get bullied in school for being this kid “FFFRRRRrrrr”
Lol same
dude you’ve actually uust taught me how to do what i’ve struggled with for so long, thank you so much!
Dude, I am just making farting noises while drooling 😭😂🤯