How to pronounce the Spanish R and roll your R's in Spanish correctly, trill the double R
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- I can teach you how to properly pronounce the R and double R in Spanish. With the techniques I teach in the video, you can practice and start pronouncing properly in no time!
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Rolling your R's in Spanish can be tricky for some. Whenever I get with a group of new Spanish students, it seems like there are those that can do it easily and then a few who have a bit of trouble.
The purpose of this video is to help anyone who needs guidance on the proper way to roll the Spanish R. But it's more than that. Just like mastering Spanish pronunciation requires your mouth to form the proper shapes in order to pronounce the sounds correctly, rolling your R's in Spanish properly is an exercise getting your tongue, mouth, and teeth to behave properly.
That's right, in order to roll your R's when speaking Spanish, you must train the muscles in your tongue and mouth to do certain things as you speak. You even have to involve your lungs and teeth to a certain degree. Very quickly you can see that speaking Spanish--or any language--is truly a physical activity.
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I HAVE BEEN PRACTICING FOR SO LONG and kept failing and failing after watching endless videos and was about to give up but this video finally helped me do it for the first time!!! The “ada” sound repeatedly helped me say “carro” in Spanish. Thank you SO MUCH!! And for anyone still struggling, you will get it I promise just do not give up it’s so worth it when you finally do get it
I have watched a lot of trill videos, and this is absolutely worked after about 3-5 hours of practice.
Great to hear, Joseph. Que bueno que estás mejorando!
The sequence "butter, utter, utta" worked for me to learn the trilled "r". I knew the soft "r" but the trilled "r" was my challenge. Thank you. I would say the tongue vibrates quickly. I can't growl yet but I can get the multi-bounce vibration. Thanks again.
That butter analogy got me 90% of the way there in 5 mins. THANK YOU!
Keep up the great work, Brandon. Buen trabajo, amigo
Just started learning Spanish yesterday! This has been the biggest struggle but you made it way easier. More so than any other tutorial I’ve seen. Thank you sir!
I wanted to tell everyone, that I'm 37 and could never roll my r - and after practicing for 4 days, I finally managed a small trill using this method! I still can't really control it, but can trill arrrra. Now I need to learn how to do it on command with different vowels. There is hope!
You are awesome! I've had problems with the double rr for years and had given up. I'm taking yet another Spanish course and decided I'd give this yet another try, found your site, and it worked! It was the "butter" suggestion. This is so fantastic! Thank-you!
Very happy it's working for you, Erika. Spanish is my passion. Best of luck as you continue to learn and speak this beautiful language.
I’d been trying to roll my Rs for YEARS until my roomates yesterday told me to practice making the sound that a gun would make like “brrraaa, brraa” a bunch of times and I GOT IT, literally the only thing that worked for me
This is the best practice video for rolling your rs. Also works for Italian. Thank you!
Thank you, Aein
I’m sure I’ve watched 90 videos the last 30 days and was not going to give up but give it a break. One last time down the UA-cam rabbit hole and found this video. 5 attempts and about on the verge of the motor running. Right now it’s flooded. Like BUTTER baby!
Fantastic, Rand. Glad I could help out
I’ve made the most progress after watching your video and using this method, thank you so much! Now I just need to keep at it and work on how to extend the roll for longer. 😊
I watched this yesterday, and today I can do it!!!! This is seriously the best video. So many people before tried to explain how to do it to me but this magical butter method did the trick! I think it's the fact that a lot of English speakers can't relax their tongues, so doing the butter thing helps you learn that.
Thank you so much!!
For anyone having trouble getting their r to sound more natural, for me, after doing the butter thing i started saying 'raffle ruffle' with a rolled r over and over and it made it really natural after a while
Thanks for giving this a try and for the nice comment, Allison. Just takes a little practice is all as you've learned. Wish you all the best speaking Spanish!
BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO this is GOLD! Your cues are so damn simple. All these other channels are showing like 5-10 steps with diagrams of the mouth/throat and all this nonsense.
OMG! This is the best instruction video, I got it after just 5 mins of practice. Thank you so much!
Thank u so much for the double r pronunciation ❤❤
There are so many videos on this topic and none of them seemed to be helping me
so I was about to give up until I found this one... thanks so much, great job!
I'm doing what he said in this UA-cam. Now I can trill R a little better than before, EXCITED! I will continue to practice, thanks a lot to this UA-camr : - )
Omg it's kindaa workin!!!!! I watched a billion videos and they all got me dizzy of trying so hard and now u helped me a lot in like 5 minutes I'm almost there thank u!!!!
This is a follow up to my TWO earlier posts. After about 5 to 6 days practicing at least once and probably a couple times a day, my tongue is continuing to make substantial progress. I do get lots of TRILL sounds and with less and less effort each time. Sometimes the TRILL can be made even without a lot of air. This is encouraging!!! I think that I'll keep at this and report my progress in TEN more days.
volvol1 no progress report?
@@signupforstuff8502 still no progress report....
VOLVOL1 ARE YOU STILL WITH US???? HOW IS THE TRILL GOING PLEASE WE NEED ANSWERS!!!
It works! Thank you so much! Every other video tells me to relax the tongue, but I really don't know how to relax the tongue while holding it up. I guess the "adada" practice does exactly this! Thank you so much!
So glad I could help, Pengfei
Your tips are fantastic, really appreciate them!
Muchas thanks, Sil!
Thank you! Helped me a lot.
Now, I just need to keep practicing.
And, eventually, it will become second nature.
This is a follow up to my three earlier posts which started, I believe, about one month ago. This method IS working and it just gets better and better. My tongue (which used to feel clumsy and stiff and lifeless) now flaps relaxed and easy. Am I PERFECT, yet for forming the Spanish and Thai rolling RRRs? No not yet, but I am getting very close. The steady progress is soooo encouraging. Thanks for posting this.
I haven't even tried doing it yet, im just focused on watching the video first and even if I can't do it, this is by far the most helpful video I have found
Pretty good info and techniques. Thanks
thank you for the one r always still rolled it pada really got me there in like 5 min thanks
@Learn Spanish TV thank you so much! I found this to be a great lesson and I noticed improvement almost instantly. Great stuff and very to follow!
the butter-method is excellent, THUMBS UP
Muchísimas gracias
Great technique
I've looked at about 10 different videos on this subject over the last THREE days. And I tried the different methods that are suggested including saying the tongue twisters over and over and faster and faster and such. But my tongue just felt DEAD. But...after about 10 minutes with your "utta, utta, utta," exercise ... I think that I am making progress. My tongue HAS done a little flapping on the roof of my mouth in ways never before experienced.I'll keep trying and report on my progress later.
volvol1 progress report? I'm at about where you are here I want to see if you ever got it?
This is probably my 14678909765443 video to learn how to roll your R I am getting tired of it so I gave up GL for all of u
fahmi ali I am so tired of this as well my family is a group of Spanish speaker I am so irritated
Carry on, you will make it
I'm going to get it. I'm determined.
I can relate, I'm the only Puerto Rican I know who can't do it.
I have done it after 27 years man! Keep going! (actually it didn't took that much of time but I managed to do it in my late 20s)
It does work !! Thanks a lot!
Thank you so much!!!!!! This actually worked for me.
This is a follow up to my post of 21 hours ago. I'll still practicing. And I'm getting a lot of tongue flapping but I think that it is more from and actual trill that I get when I do the "pirate guttural throat clearing sound" (which is getting very good at flapping the tongue -- although the sound does not last very long). I am seeming pretty far away from the RRRR (growl that you make) which seems to be both long lasting and a little disconnected from the "utta, utta, utta" sound that you recommend. I'll keep trying and will report on my progress. I do recognize that the "pirate guttural throat clearing sound" is coming from the back of the throat and I do KNOW that that is not where I want to be generating the rolling RRRs which is at the front of the mouth.
You're awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank You for taking the time to do this video!! It has been very helpful. I'm gonna keep practicing!!
been trying this for so long and you just make things damn easy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So happy to help, Rajon. Great work!
Thank you thank you!!!! I finally got it
I'm still hopeless with the double R. In Canada the famous restaurant chain Tim Horton's used the catch phrase "Roll up the rim" for their past campaigns. The announcer would to say, "Rrrrrrooll up the Rim!" with lots of energy and enthusiasm. 😅
OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU I FINALLY GOT IT AFTER PRACTISING FOR 2 YEARS I-€;€&/€:€
Be proud of your hard work, Daintyroses
The alveolar tap (the Spanish "R") actually does exist in English. It's an allophone of both D and T. The reason saying an English "D" helps with the alveolar tap is because D becomes an alveolar tap in certain circumstances in English. The English "T" does as well. This is why the words "latter" and "ladder" are actually pronounced exactly the same in English. They both contain the alveolar tap instead of D or T. The sound in the middle of both "ladder" and "latter" is the Spanish "R." If you use a D like this video suggests for a word like "para" your English phonology will help you say the word correctly. English phonology doesn't want a true D there. (Saying "potter" and then dropping the last R might work too.) It becomes difficult with words like "por favor" as the alveolar tap never occurs at the end of a word in English, but it can be done with practice. Saying "pora favora" (or "poda favoda") for a while and then dropping the "a" might help.
The alveolar trill (Spanish "rr") is more difficult as we have no trills in English. The "butter" idea this video mentions is a good way to learn it I think. I usually think of the alveolar trill as the alveolar tap happening over and over (lots of tapped R's in a row).
Maybe latter and ladder are pronounced the same in American English, but not in British English. The t is either fully pronounced or a glottal stop is used.
My problem's that I can roll the R after a D or T, but I can't do it only with R or with A,E and so on before it. How can I learn that?
Omg this is the best one so far
It sounds like I'm saying Pedro when I try to say perro
Same
That means you're almost there, Adri. Keep it up
@Learn Spanish TV So thank you very much for this video. It is the ONLY video on UA-cam that got me started with getting my tongue to trill. However, I can only get the vibration going for quick bursts when saying "udda". I can't sustain it for multiple seconds like you can. When I try, I just get a spitting "tttthhhHTTTTThhhhhhshsssthhhhtttttt" sound. Also, as soon as I try to incorporate it into the rr words, it just doesn't happen and I'm back to square one. Am I still on the right track?
I can do the trill for a second. but I cannot get it to keep going indefinitely. I've been practicing trying to get a more consistent trill and it just isn't happening, I've been practicing for a long time. This is using the para/adadada method.
But what I can do is get the tongue to vibrate. The problem is that it uses too much air or I spit and it's very difficult to use while speaking words.
the exact thing is happening to me! I can vibrate my tongue but it’s a very short amount of time and I’ve been practicing for a while right now
This is the best examples far😘😘😘
The problem is for a british english speaker we would use a glottal stop for the letter t, not a d as a US english speaker would. So even doing that d sound is unnatural.
I can do r no problem, I just can't trill. I'll keep trying udder!
Am so gonna try this "udda udda udda udda..." exercise! I can do the single r 'flap' & can trill, like old school bell rrrrriiing, but simply can't articulate perro correctly. It comes out pehthrro. I can do it as erro, ehrrrrro but if I do the p, it won't roll. Same thing for burro. I can do urro. Somehow the consonent is tripping me up. I successfully say arrrrrrrroz for arroz con pollo & arrrriba because they start w/ vowels. Anyway, perhaps you could make a vid on how to incorporate the trilled rr into real words. All the vids on UA-cam show how to begin learning trill, but then it's learning to say the actual words. 😃
Should I practice saying pada before utta or should I do both?
So if I just keeping practicing trying to say udda quickly I will eventually be able to roll my R's
lmaooo the "utta" sounds like _ara ara_ from japanese anime 🤣
Muy bien jefe
i know how to roll my r but not my double r I have a lot of trouble saying it my toung goes to the side when I try to do the double r and it rolls to the side not the middle you know ? thank you this is helping
problem as a brit is that wed never ever say butter like that so even that is weird to me 😂
i suppose udder is the closest ...like a cows udder 😉
yep udder workds too!
I’m a natural Spanish speaker and I can’t pronounce the double r💀
When I try it. The sound is coming from the throat. And not from my tongue vibrating
same i don’t know what to do as i can’t get that method out my head
It's still difficult when u did your R always with your throat.
Yes, some languages say their Rs with their throat and rolling the R can be difficult, but keep practicing and your tongue will figure out the correct position.
Why is Dane Cook teaching me to roll my R’s
It is so weird to hear someone who has studied and understands so much this kind of foreign sounds, and he still sounds so foreign when he uses them in a phrase. To english speakers that are trying to learn spanish pronunciation, dont get discouraged, shit is really hard. Just get that everyone will be impressed by you at least trying to get it right when almost everyone gets comfortable with just being able to speak the language.
I sub.
The native language I speak consist of R, yet people (including me) finds it difficult to pronounce a single R and here I am Spanish beginner stuck with double R. My tongue will die for sure :(
Keep trying and it will surely come
It's hard
So I can say udda how can I transition to perro?
It sounds like I am saying puda.
Ara, arra, arrra, O'rray?👍
Are you serious ? . "hey if you can roll your R'S then all you have to do is roll your Rs! " Is basically what he just said.
I came here because i CAN'T roll my R's. I CAN'T make that sound with my mouth and tongue. 😩 Im doomed. 😭 Well apparently after reading all the comments I'm pretty much the only dumbass that still doesn't get it so I guess I'll keep watching it over and over maybe something will click for me.
Another swing and a miss! 🥲
Your "rr" rolls don't sound anything like utta. I can at least say utta.
Thanks for watching and for your interest in rolling the Spanish R and double R. Focusing on the "tt" in "butter" and "utta" can help students improve pronunciation of the Spanish R first and then the double R. In English, our "tt" is often pronounced softly, almost like an English D, for example "buder" (butter) and by extension "udah" (utta). The point is that this soft T or D sound in English is very similar to the Spanish R. Take a common Spanish word such as "Para" and instead of saying that hard R sound (which is a temptation for many), replace the R with a D, which you'll get "Pada", which is already a big improvement. It sounds like you understand that part fine, but it may be helpful to others watching this. Now take that same D sound and start to repeat it consecutively, faster and faster each time until it sounds sort of like a helicopter, like udddddah". Do this exercise over and over again because it will train your tongue on the proper shape and position to make the correct sound and pronunciation for the Spanish double R.
Thanks for you reply. I have been practicing the way you are teaching to say the "r". I've got that down quite good now using your method. But the "rr" is the biggest problem where I might get 3 trills of my tongue. I've also been recording my voice saying the "r" and the "rr" and if I never improved anymore I'm pretty happy with what it sounds like now when I compare what I say with the Spanish speaker which don't roll his "rr' so long.
Unfortunately I'm unable to roll the "rr" like you as much as I would love to. I will probably have to get with a Spanish teacher and be shown how to roll my tongue like you do.