THE "R" IN AMERICAN ENGLISH | 5 POWERFUL TIPS | ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION | RACHEL’S ENGLISH
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- The “R” sound in American English is an area where many of my students make tremendous progress in their spoken English. You can use this video to learn exactly how to make the “R” sound-including how to position your tongue and lips in order to have your spoken English sound like a native speaker’s. These 5 tips for the “R” sound focus on how you can make the sound with more confidence and increase a listener’s comprehension of your English speaking. The “R” consonant is a tricky subject by you’ll be studying with an experienced teacher!
You’ll learn the two distinct ways to make the “R” sound, how to make the “R” sound as a vowel and how to correctly position your mouth to mimic native speakers. In teaching these 5 tips I’ll show you live teaching of the “R” sound from my online school, Rachel’s English Academy, where I work with students in my live online classroom every month. By watching how I teach students live you’ll gain unique insight into how the concepts of the “R” sound are put into practice by actual students.
Learning English as spoken English is a wonderful challenge for you as an English student. The American English “R” sound is a way for you to perfect your accent and this video is a lot of fun. These 5 tips for “R” will re-shape your English speaking regarding a critical consonant/vowel sound and make you sound more and more like a native speaker.
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I didnt hear any r sound in words like work ...park ......etc in fast speech
Love you madam
Madam I want to learn online plz tell me method how I become online
Rachel's English
You are so beautiful
An R followed by a D or a flipped t sound is one of the most difficult sounds to be made by a non native speaker
Border, Order ,Party .. etc
Thanks Rachel
I never saw a teacher like you teaching in that professional and technical way to help us to pronounce each sound in the correct way 👍👍👍
You are best teacher . I am studing English in Jordan .Your lessons are perfect.
Thanks a lot!
Thank you for great tips, Rachel! Your videos on "R" are the best!
Dear Teacher,
I would like to express my appreciation for your fruitful clips .these clips have been quite productive in my skills .
One more time
Thank you so much
My pleasure Alireza!
This is really interesting about pronouncing the R sound in the two ways. Personally I think after some time of speaking English on daily basis in my work I more often if not most of the time use the second way. That is when I want to make R sound I just pull back my tongue along with positioning my tip of it towards the top.
I think that way is like more "lazy" or I would say more "relax" way where I don't need to exhale that much amount of air as for the first method. The first way is like more accurate, smoother and the second way which I prefer is like it sounds more harsh, raw and I would say it's like you have a hoarse voice, or when you wake up in the morning you have that voice deeper and more harsh.
Does anybody could relate to that or is it just me thinking there are people who just prefer to speak like that because it feels more relaxed and not being super accurate all the time.
Great lesson. I had been struggling with the R sound.
Thanks Shino!
The close up pictures and videos are great! That’s really helpful for students. Especially the diagrams where you can see the tongue movements. My exam students often struggle with pronunciation in their speaking exams so I’m sure this video will help them. Of course my accent is slightly different as I’m from the U.K! Happy learning students, watch and practise with this video carefully!
Thanks for sharing Rory!
I am a fan of your videos, and my students know it! Very useful as usual
Freeae if that was addressed to me, then thank you very much! (I don’t think it was though)
@@CambridgeEnglishTeacherRory lol it wasn't but I'll check your channel. 😅
Freeae haha, no worries. My channel is quite new and all the videos are about passing Cambridge exams, so quite niche. They might not even be popular where you are. I subscribed to you ☺️
i speak very well when i watch you.Thank you very much
You're welcome Hoa!
Rachel, большое спасибо за урок!
thank you rachel you are the best teacher
You're very much welcome!
Thank you so much, Rachel!
I made the R sound incorrectly for a whole year. And no videos helped to understand. But this video helped, especially the exercise in the second tip.
Videos in this format are very helpful in understanding how to pronounce the sound correctly.
Also only your video “5 powerful tips for TH sound” really helped to pronounce the sound TH!
I love your channel!
Thanks a lot!
All tips are GREAT and HELPFUl as its name "5 powerful tips" 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
You believe me or not, "R" sound is what I find toughest of all.
thank you .شكرا لك
You're welcome Abou!
Video was very nice. before i see this video, I found myself in a difficulty. Whenever i tried to speak "R" fluently. I was failed. But know i will focus on your teachings. I hope, i will able to improve........ Greetings from Pakistan Rachel. Thanks.
You're welcome Rana! Just keep on practicing:)
Thanks Rachel
The best video I've ever seen! Thank you!!
Thanks a lot Dima!
thank you so much for this video! i had a little bit of trouble with r in word order , but now it's easy to pronoun!
You're very welcome @user-zb4cg9jy1s!
Thank you very much teacher
You're welcome!
Very useful Rachel, thank you so much
You're welcome!
You're definitely AMAZING. I love your lessons 👏👏👏
You're welcome David!
Thanks a lot for Teaching Miss
My pleasure!
Learned a lot from your channel , now I can speak in American accent
Awesome!
Creating space between my lip and my gum is helpful to pronounce 'R' sound! Thank you so much😄
Very helpful thank you Rachel!
You're welcome Lakshmi!
Very useful Rachel's
Thank you sooo much😘😘😘😘
My pleasure Hakeen!
hi rachel , for my case I have a difficult withe words , :world , word and squirrel .and thanks million times for your great efforts, that you giving each days to learn us something new or like this video ,a tips.thanks so mush .(hope there is no mistaks )
You're very much welcome Dia!
Thanks Rachel.😊
Super lesson!
Glad you think so!
Hi Rachel as always it's nice watch your videos they're very helpful thanks a lot my dear teacher and have a great day you and your family 😉👍
Thanks Aparecido!
Rachel please could you speak about prepositions at the of sentence?
Thanks your videos are very helpful.
Hi! Thanks so much for this suggestion!
Did you know you could practice speaking English with me?
Very good teacher, excellent video
Thank you Gilberto!
Really this is a wonderful episode as previous.
Thanks a lot!
Your video is very essential to understand the pronunciation difference of the letter R especially for someone like me who has difficulty in pronouncing R in both English and French.😅 Thanks a lot for this video.😊
Glad it was helpful! You're welcome Abdul!
You are a great teacher,I am definitely inspired.🎅🏻
Thanks a lot!
Thanks Rachel! I love tip 3! Helped me a lot!
My pleasure David!
Thanks a lot, Rachel. It's been useful as always)
You're welcome!
Thanks 4 the lesson, Rachel! Greetings from Russia ✌😊
I study english by myself and of course I make a mistakes. I listen you speech and training my hear. Now I understand more better than ever before. It will be good if you explain the pronunciation on tonque twisters, for example.
Wonderful lesson.
Thank you!
Really very nice class! For me, tip 4 is the most (not importar... all of them are important) interesting! 👏👏
love you Rachel!!!
Awesome as always
Thanks Dhia!
I have problem with L .People dont understand me say help. I have been struggling with. L many yrs
You have always excited video and you are the best
Thanks a lot Ahmad!
@@rachelsenglish you're an angel for me ....
Awesome tips 👍
Tip five
Was all of these tips helpful for me
Very helpful tips for pronunciation.
Fresh video🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍👌👌
Thanks a lot Arya!
Thank Rachel's, it is very useful.
Wow! This video is so helpful and fun! I love how you explain the 'r' sound with clear examples and tips. I have a question though: how do you pronounce the word "earth's" in the sentence "let's talk about the earth's rotation"? I find it hard to say the 'r' and the 'th' sounds together. Can you please make a video on that? Thank you so much for your amazing work!
Thank you! And great suggestion! Here's a video on "earth": ruclips.net/video/RwMwPgjxMxs/видео.html . And here's one for THS: ruclips.net/video/8Cfx4x4syhc/видео.html.
@@rachelsenglish I am so grateful for your quick response and the useful resources you shared with me.
I find other possition working better my native uses r that sounds much alike french r with alot of vibration and tounge is in possition just like as described in first few mins. So i learned second tounge possition and my mentor told me to imagine just like having a bubble gum below the tip of my tounge so i could tilt up the tip of the tounge. And that is how i eliminated vibration from my American R. 😊
Thanks for sharing Tomislav!
Thank You for that amazing video
! Love U so much
You're very much welcome!
Amazing! 😍 Loved it
Thanks Sebastian! :)
Thanks for help me!
💐💐💐💐💐💐💐!
You're welcome!
Thanks for this really useful video. I hope you can make another version video about the dark L like this one , which still makes me confused even though I know that you did have videos about the dark L
Hi Rachel, loving your channel!!!!! Congrats, what a good job! Im wondering if you would know any channel that teaches like you but to learn The Australian accent. Thank you so much! Amazed with your job!
Thank you so much professor for this video I love you so much i'm salma from morocco and I love English so much because it's my favorite school subject also my favorite language and I want to be a teacher of English in the future this is my dream and I always work hard
You're very much welcome Salma!
Let's practice together. How about that?
Hey Rachel how are you doing I'm glad to see again
I'm great, thanks! :)
Very interesting video
Thanks a lot @King-nz1lb!
Thanks for the great video .ahmad from usa.
You're welcome Ahmad!
My preceptor I ram your disciple hunger of your knowledge and bless.
Thanks Ram!
Great video!
Would you please make a video explaining how to do the consonant cluster "RT", example words: toRToise, paRTy, foRTy, (etc)
Great suggestion, thanks!
That what I'm looking for too 🙏🙏🙏
Rachel's English I’m looking forward it too
thanks rachel i am ur student from senegal west africa
Hello there Diop! You're welcome:)
Amazing Rachel
Thanks Monawat!
@@rachelsenglish
Your welcome
that is your right
Even as a English speaker , I still have trouble with the R especially the word roar . So I will continue practice.
Rachel, thank you for your response to my previous question re R sound. I have another one to make the R sound. Some other RUclips teachers are advising us to have both sides of our tongue (also back part of the tongue) to touch the back teeth. Are you also recommending this (in some of your videos)?? If not, I would also like to know why. Thank you very much.
Yes! For some students you will feel that contact between the sides of the back part of the tongue and the back teeth. It depends on mouth shape and will be slightly different depending on each speaker! :)
Great content as always!!! I've always tryed to pronounce R the same way, no matter what its position is... Now I know that it's different depending on where the letter R is in a word! 🤦♀️😁
Thanks Anna!
Excellent teacher!!! how to know the order of the videos to learn English
Number 4 great
Can you make a vidieo to tell us how to tell the difference between collect and connect?
really appreciate
Good suggestion Jin, thanks!
how is the order of the videos to learn English. excellent teacher
A good choice
I wanna talk to you
Thanks!
Would like to practice your English with me at any time?
@@howtolearnenglishlearnengl4126 yes, I would like to practice if you can help me.
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Hello, thanks for your fantastic videos. If you please, I want to know the rule for the pronunciation of the R in these words when R coming after the vowel e (her, there, and here). Thnx again.
Hi! For 'her', you'll just use the R vowel sound - so an H consonant followed by an R vowel - and that's it! For 'there', you'll use an EH as in BED vowel before the R consonant. And for 'here' you'll use an IH as in SIT vowel before the R consonant.
@@rachelsenglish For the R consonant sound that follows the words “here” and “there”, are the lips flared the same way as the R vowel, or less like the schwa-r sound? Thanks Rachel your lessons are fantastic and I’m recommending them to my English-learning friends
Nice
Thanks Omar!
Please make a video on where or how to use "would" thanks
Good suggestion, thanks!
Wow! Live!
Hi Rachel
In the song BAD LIAR, the singer sang the word LIAR. I only heard the ə sound. So where is the r sound in American English?
Can you help me with that?
Thanks in advance.
Hi Rachel, Thanks for the videos that you filmed for us, the English beginners.
Could you please help me to correct the two conversations below? Thanks a lot.
1.
A: I heard that Hannah had set you up a man two days ago. So when do I get to meet the guy?
B: come on, we have just met. There's nothing between us at all, I'll let you meet him if the time is right,okay?
2.
A: I heard that Hannah had set you up a man two days ago. So when do I get to meet the guy?
B: I'll see how it goes.
Hi! Thanks for your comment. Here are my corrections:
1.
A: I heard that Hannah set you up with a man two days ago. So when do I get to meet the guy?
B: Come on, we've just met. There's nothing between us at all. I'll you meet him if the time is right, okay?
2.
A: I heard that Hannah set you up with a man two days ago. So when do I get to meet the guy?
B: I'll see how it goes.
I think that saying ""a man"" is not completely natural. It would be more common to say: ""I heard that Hannah set you up with someone two days ago. So when do I get to meet the guy?""
@@rachelsenglish Thank you very much.
That was a really good helpful you gave.
Like it mam
Thanks Deepan!
Your accent i good
Thanks Abdul!
Hello - Do you have online classes, i am interested to join , i want to be perfect in accent
Hi, Rachel! Really appreciate the work you did.
I have problems with the pronounciation of letter t. Sometimes native speakers just swallowed the sound, like kitten. I tried to do that too, but sounds weird and unnatural. Do you have any suggestion? Thank you.
Thanks a lot.
I must have learned it. At least, It seems to me. :)
You're welcome!
I have problems pronouncing the words Order, and started .
@Hossam Elhares
You may use search. For example this way:
ruclips.net/video/jgOErmGUpA4/видео.html
Good luck
also the word (Corner)
Could you please as a comparative part in your videos add a short lesson at the end of each one and compare all tips and some relevant words with their difference together.
like this one ...Speak English Fluently - all 6 “D” Sounds | Rachel’s English / English Speaking Lesson in 14:10 min.
because during the watching videos all the time I am trying to compare and finding the differences to get the rules correctly and deeply, for example in this one between tip 4 and tip 5.
thank you
Good suggestion Ali, thanks!
Por qual playlist começar a estudar inglês usando seu canal?
I thought I had no problem with the "r" sound. It turns out there is work to be done.
thank you for this video
but I want to tell you that my biggest problem with r sound is when it comes close to a L sound
It becomes so difficult
You're welcome Fatma! Just keep on practicing:)
Rachel, Thank you for these amazing learning opportunities! I love your videos!
I have a question re a R sound in "word, first, hurt, world, girl, birthday, bird" (@7:02 in your video) and another R sound at the end of the words, like in "teacher, brother, whisper, faster" (@8:03). They sounds almost the same to me. Can you explain the differences between these 2 types of R sound? What I guess is: (1) There is a stress in the first sound, while the there isn't in the 2nd; (2) the sides of the lips are more relaxed in the 2nd sound. So, my guess is that the difference could basically due to being stressed or not stressed... Looking forward to hearing from you. Mitsuko
Hi Mitsuko - you are EXACTLY right in your assessment of the difference here. Well done! I couldn't have said it better myself! :)
Hi Rachel. What’s the difference between ɹ̴ and ɹ̩?
These are some of the many variations of R which is a semivowel (also called an "approximate"). The tongue doesn't touch anywhere in the mouth, so there is a great deal of variation in the position of the tongue for producing an R sound across various languages.
@@rachelsenglish The /ɫ/ is a vowel Ll. Can the /ɹ̩/ and /ɹ̴/ both be called as vowels of Rr?
How to say on and of and off and was?
What is difference between hour an our
There is no difference in the pronunciation of "hour" and "our".
@@MILANBELGRADEBOYS hmmmmmm😆
Hi! 'Hour' and 'our' are pronounced the same way - however, 'our' is a function word and is often reduced - which means you may hear 'our' pronounced as just the R vowel sound, at times.
'On' is pronounced with the AW as in LAW vowel follwed by the N consonant.
'Of' is pronounced with the UH as in BUTTER vowel followed by an V consonant - however, this word is almost always reduced to just a schwa sound followed by the V, or even just a schwa.
'Off' is pronounced with the AW as in LAW vowel follwed by the F consonant.
'Was' is pronounced with the W consonant, followed by an UH as in BUTTER vowel followed by a Z consonant - however, this word is almost always reduced to just a schwa sound between the W and Z consonants.
I want to use the first R version so I try not to lift my tongue tip towards the ridge but it is hard to not do. Any tips, please?
also some peop[le say Americans speak like animals growl, where should I make sounds mostly when speaking American englihs? should I feel a bit of stress in the back of my mouth close to my throat when speaking?
The hardest letter i think even in Morocco we don't have any problem with it
Hi Rachel, Why don't you mention the [ɚ] and [ɝ] symbols for those 'r' shaped the vowels? Otherwise, love your videos!
The UR can be written in IPA in a few different ways, but in American English there's only one UR sound (even though the R affects other vowels too, such as OR, EAR, etc). For this reason, I find it easier to use the [ɜ] symbol to refer specifically to UR. More here: ruclips.net/video/Ehn6XixUBKs/видео.html
@@rachelsenglish Thank you, but isn't this confusing when the ɜ is also used to denote just the vowel ?
UK: bˈɜːd versus US: bɝd
I want to be your student( face to face using zoom) How can i do it?
Hi! I do have teachers who teach privately via Skype/Zoom through my online Academy. To learn more about my Academy you can check out my website: www.rachelsenglishacademy.com/
GOOD MORNING MADAM. COULD YOU EXPLAIN IT PLEASE. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN. SIT AND SEAT
Hello! Sure, I can explain the difference. "Sit" uses a different vowel sound than "seat". I actually have a video on this difference here: ruclips.net/video/DuK3A3pBQlc/видео.html
Thank you madam doing this for me. Thanks a million
But how to use them in sentences
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Rachel or anyone, can you help me with my question?
For example, two words: coming[ˈkʌmɪŋ] and comin'[ˈkʌmɪn]. Am I right with these transcriptions? Anyway, from some people, I hear that in comin' it's the same sound 'ŋ' but we just don't pronounce 'g' at the end. And I really don't understand, is it faster to pronounce comin' instead of coming or what's the point of this?
This is a great question! It is a form of casual English to drop the NG and pronounce an N consonant sound at the end of words like 'coming'. I think it probably is a little bit easier to pronounce the N consonant than the NG, and is definitely easier to link to another word/sound from the N consonant. So, my guess is that is why it is so common. I wouldn't recommend using this form of reduction in office meetings or formal presentations, but it is fine in casual conversation!
@@rachelsenglish thanks for clearing up!
Amazing video ma'am..but my 'r' word is not clear..your video is really very helpful ma'am..thanks ma'am..😙😙😙😙😙😙👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌
You're very much welcome Divya!
Hello,Rachle ! Please respond to my question . I have a very important question. Could you please explain to me why these words are countable (beens and lentils)? It sounds strange. Is there anyone can count lentils and beans !!!??
حبيبي مروان سؤال قوي وفي محله...
الجواب حسب ما اعرف ان كل ما هو بقول وله فلقتين إذن يُعد مثل العدس والفول والحمص والفاصولياء وكل شي له فلقتين.
اما الرز والحنطة وغيرها من الحبوب فهي من ذرات الفلقة الواحدة لذلك لا تعد.
بالنسبة لحرف r تابع استاذ ابراهيم علي قناته ZAmericanEnglish شي رائع جدا
شكرا أخي الحبيب
I guess they are countable because they can be counted! If you put a few lentils in your hand, you can visibly see the difference between having 4 lentils or 6 lentils or one lentil. It would be the same way for beans!
So why is rice uncountable?
how do you know that i need this