Help! I can't roll my R's and I'm MEXICAN
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- This is a weird thing Mexican people have and maybe you didn't know! I can't roll my r.
If you can't pronounce the r sound in Spanish, watch this video! You aren't alone.
I've been living in Mexico all my life and I can't roll my rs. Let me tell you about my experience living in Mexico.
If you want to travel to Mexico or live in Mexico, you should know about Mexican people so you don't feel bad if you've been trying to roll your Rs for years.
I want to tell you about a cultural thing in Mexico. A lot of people in Latin America can't roll their Rs!
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Hi sis..don't feel that not being to roll your( r's ) is anything that's big..in my opinion you're just good being yourself..so any way you talk is awesome !🙂..you can only get better in whatever you do..if you want of course. Keep shining greatly sis !
@@UncutSavage9858 thanks you very much Jesse 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💖💖💖 I appreciate this very much
What I love, is that even though people criticized your Spanish, you still taught the language to foreigners! I still remember a lot of what I learned from your course and I really appreciate your teaching style. Great video!
Thanks for making this video, Karencita. You are brave.
You speak beautifully in both languages. Dont let people get you down. I could listen to you all day!
Thank you so much. I have tried to learn Spanish over and over and I have always gotten discouraged and quit because I cannot roll rs. Knowing that even some Spanish speakers can't do that makes me want to go back to learning it!
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Thank you so much for making this video, this was actually very healing for me. I’m a Hispanic person myself, my dad is from Colombia & my mom is from Puerto Rico but I was born in the United States & my parents didn’t teach me a lot of Spanish when I was younger because they were afraid that I would develop an accent in English and that kids would bully me for it. Instead, my cousins would bully me when I was younger because when I would try to speak Spanish I couldn’t speak well and that shame stayed with me for years into adulthood. Recently I’ve been trying to learn Spanish again & I’ve struggled with the RR and this made me feel a lot better. So thank you Karencita, you are a wonderful person ❤️
I'm glad this video helped you! I'm more than happy to make this video if it's helping you and more people. Don't give up!
@Manuel you’re not alone in this! There are many like you in the USA that struggle with this. Just wanted to chime in and congratulate you on making the effort to learn Spanish! It’s not easy when it comes with emotional baggage, so kudos to you! Wishing you all the best
Para pronunciar la erre hay una técnica.
@@EatBailaTravel thank you!
Que mal plan de tus papás mi hermano estudio en EUA hasta los 15 años y aprendió el acento de aya espero y aprendas pronto saludos!!!
So funny you can talk about "r" and "rr" for nearly 20mins. Glad you were able to find a solution. El que busca, encuentra.
Haha! I thought the same when I finished the video 😅.
When taking classes with you it definitely made me feel better about struggling with my R's. It made me realize that people would still understand me even if my pronunciation wasn't perfect.
Wow, yo pensé que era el único! I can roll my R's, but only lightly. También tengo el frenulum corto, pegado al frente baja de la encía.
I've been learning Spanish casually since I was 10 years old. I just now realized I can role my rs. I'm really considering taking your courses. Maybe next pay day
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I can roll r’s but only slowly. I can say words like carro and perro. But I can’t do the exaggerated pronunciation at the beginning of names like Rrrrrrrrrrrodriguez………and I’ve been practicing for years so I will never be able to make that pronunciation.
Hola Ruby. Congratulations. Now we know why some people can't role their Rs. Who knew (besides your dentist)? The RR is easier to pronounce (for me anyway). I have to think about the R to be sure I'm rolling it. If I weren't so lazy I'd practice more and then I could stop thinking about it. The people who criticized your Spanish should get a life. It's like criticizing someone's accent. If they are understood that is all that matters, and accents are often charming. Like yours, which is barely noticeable. You've worked really hard on your English and the improvement during the past few years is very noticeable. If your inability to roll your Rs encouraged you to focus more on English then it was worth the frustration. After the operation you now have two languages. As for the people who criticized your Spanish, I wonder how good their English is?
Hi William! How are you? It's been very cold in Mexico these few past weeks. I didn't do much. We spend a lovely time with my family and I realized I could solve my this pronunciation thing.
I agree with you. I wanted to make this video because I can also see how much I did because after receiving criticism.
I wasn't expecting to solve my problem anymore as I was feeling very with the way I spoke.
But once my dentist told me I could solve that problem, I didn't doubt and I did it.
If it doesn't work, it's fine too.
We've just arrived in Colombia by the way.
@@LaKarencitaMX Mexico is poorer for your departure. I hope you have a great time in Colombia. Will you spend most of your time around Manizales? A few days ago I heard a story about Manizales. Thanks to you I recognized the name. It was about bullfighting in Colombia and that Manizales was conservative in some ways and either had or was about to hold some bullfights. Have you ever been to see one? I don't enjoy seeing the bulls tortured but without bullfighting there is no reason for that breed of bull to exist. Maybe a few will be kept in zoos. As hard as it is for English speakers to roll their Rs, when I was traveling in Mexico the hardest sound for Spanish speakers to say was a short i. It always came out as ee. So ill, pill, or my name, Bill, came out as eel, peel, or Beel. We had lots of laughs as my Mexican acquaintances struggled to say my name correctly. At least I don't have to make the "click" sound used in South Africa. The tl sound at the end of Nahuatl words is difficult enough.
Thank you 😭 speaking both spanish and russian I cannot roll my R's...
I also have a short frenulmum, we call it a "tongue tie"
I can say the single R pretty good all the time, pero doble RR es muy difficult in the conversation.... if I only say one word at a time and repeat it I can make the sound, for example if I practice the word "perro" I can do it.
Glad you were able to find out the reason and have it repaired! In English it’s called “tongue tied” or ankyloglossia, and often fixed in infancy.
Where are u from? i dont understand, if spanish is not your native language
It is amazing that you did not receive a diagnosis until now. In English we call people with the short frenulum as “tongue tied” because it does affect speech. Usually is is diagnosed in infancy because often it causes feeding problems and babies will lose weight as they struggle to suck from a bottle or during breastfeeding. So glad you had the surgery. 💕
Oh really? I didn't know this. My mom says I never had a problem like that. It was evident I was tongue tied and I was diagnosed with this problem when I was a child. It wasn't a health problem though so I guess my mom didn't have the budget for the surgery at that time.
I have Filipino friends and the way they pronounce the "r" when they try to speak Spanish is very noticeable, it is very strong. I have even observed that they do not make a difference between the r and the double r, and the sound is the same sound to my ears.
Now that you say that, I've heard the same in Filipino people. I can understand why.
@@LaKarencitaMX I don't know if it happens with all the languages of the Philippine archipelago, but when my Tagalog-speaking Filipino friends try to pronounce words in Spanish where the "r" has a strong sound (double r) they pronounce them with a stronger sound than we use Spanish speakers and also have a hard time pronouncing the "ere" sound in Spanish. However, I do not observe that they do the same when we speak in English, in words where the "r" has a sound, either strong or weak, and I understand that during the domination of the USA they were formally educated in the pronunciation of all the letters of the alphabet in English, which I deduce did not occur during Spanish rule, in the case of the correct pronunciation of "ere" and "erre" in Spanish.
By the way, in the original Tagalog there was no Latin script. In 1940 an alphabet that included 20 letters was invented, which was replaced in 1976 with an expanded alphabet that contained 11 additional letters from the then Spanish alphabet (C, CH, F, J, LL, Ñ, Q, RR, V , X and Z), which in turn were replaced by the current alphabet of 28 letters (excluding CH and LL and RR, which were now considered digraphs). In this video, at minute 2:53, I hear that in the Filipino alphabet the "r" sound is unique and somewhat stronger than in Spanish: ua-cam.com/video/Fk-Hdpg5Nc0/v-deo.html
Please make update video
Hi Karen. I have been considering the same surgery(sublingual frenectomy) for almost a whole year. I am pretty good at pronunciation for all of the other Spanish letters, and have tried for countless hours to make the "rr" sound. I think my tongue is in the right place to make the "rr" sound, but I still can't make it. I heard about the surgery, but I just haven't had enough money to do it. And YES! I also have spent years looking for synonyms to avoid speaking the "rr" sound. Afterward, I really hope to be able to roll my "rr". It's my dream to be able to do that. What dentist did you use, just out of curiosity?
I completely understad what you say of course. If you come to Mexico try here. I use a very good dentist. A UNAM graduated. He has his consultory in Progreso de Obregón, Hidalgo. I've heard he's done work for people who come from the United States. If you want to know more, we cant talk on Patreon.
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Dices cado pa carro amor amo lol no way all Mexican I know roll there rs lol
Karencita, when I heard you speak Spanish in other videos, I noticed the odd way how you pronounced the R, but didin't know why. Thanks for clarifying and and sharing this with us. Health and body challenges are very common in life, including mine.
Put a pencil under your tongue and practice. It is the way. How I teach people the Erre
I can't roll my R's. I gave up many moons ago.
It's fine too 💖😃
I am Puertorican the “”r or rr” are not in the alphabet!😂 We are watching you from Arlington, Texas! We are planning to move to Querétaro! Se u around at the La Guera in Melcado la Cruz😂😂😂
Hola Keren, gracias por seguir tocando este tipo, mi R a mejorado mucho, pero hay momentos que me cuesta. La gente no sabe como esto afecta tu autoestima. Gracias.
Es cierto. Échale ganas pero igual que te valga! Somos únicos
You kinda sound Filipino
That’s what people tell me
Habla Español Hermosa Loved the video
Muchas gracias
im confused. did you say you learned the rr in vietnam with a lot of practice? or not til after you just had surgery?i am also frustrated with it. How ahout a short video with the practice drills your doing or did.. thks. im jealous
Te felicito Karen por alcanzar esta meta 👏🏼👏🏼😊 se te nota lo contenta que estás lograr esto 😊
Muchas gracias Jenny. Estoy muy contenta de verdad. Ahora solamente necesito practicar
Es sola una letra soy capaz de prouninciar la rrrrrrrr perfectamente pero esto no me hace mas rico
Gracias por hablar de esto. Yo no lo puedo hacer. Y mi madre, que ni inglés habla, tampoco lo puede hacer. Por cierto, cómo se dirá “roll your r” en español?
I am arabian and when I was a child I was not able to say the Rrrrrra sound I've learned it when I was 8 or 9 years... in arabic the roll Rrrrr is important
Bueno, justo te iba a preguntar de qué estado eras originaria en México, porque tu acento y pronunciación de las "erres", no me parecía familiar de ningún estado. Con este video, queda mi pregunta respondida. De cualquier manera, te felicito por tu empeño, métodos, etcétera. Te mando sólo buenas vibras Karen!😉🙅🏻♂️🙋♂️😘
Muchas gracias 😊
How amazing! Karen, this is a life-changer for you! I wonder how many others have the same problem with their tongue? It's good that there are exercises that you did while in Viet Nam that helped. It is a type of speech impediment, and people worldwide have them. I was taught as a child not to make fun of people who have trouble speaking, it is a hurtful thing to do.
Thank you very much Cindy! I'm glad you never made fun of people with similar problems
I know someone who committed suicide in Japan because he couldn’t rr in Spanish class in his university. I wish he could have watched your video.
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¡Hola Karen! Me late cómo terminaste el video con el sonido del "rr". Es perfecto. Estoy asombrado una cirugía así de sencilla puede cambiar la voz tanto. Estoy super feliz por ti. Se nota el cambio en tu voz después de la cirugía.
¿En serio? ¿Crees que cambió mi tono de voz? 😮😮😮 Gracias por ver hasta el final jaja
I know the difficulty
What a sad world we live in where you had to have surgery so people would not laugh at you.
Good point