How can i better pronounce the “rr” constant sound in the Spanish language?
February 10th, 2010 | 
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ted k asked:
I’m learning spanish right now and having the hardest time learning the “rr” sound. Is there any exercise that i could do to try and get the pronunciation right?
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I’m learning spanish right now and having the hardest time learning the “rr” sound. Is there any exercise that i could do to try and get the pronunciation right?
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you listen to it being said really a lot and you’ll get it eventually!
one Spanish tip: the spanish ”j” (and ”g” when followed by ”i” or ”e”) is NOT NOT NOT like the ”h” in ”hause”, it is a distict sound ,that resembles in no way that English ”h” , and does NOT exist in English.
it’s like the ”ch” in the German word ”bach”, it sounds as if you have a phlegm in your mouth and your about to spit it. English speakers write it as ”kh” (sometimes ”ch”)
so plz don’t pronounce ”jose” like ”hose”, because it’s wrong.
I think this sound is the one you should worry about not rolling your ”r”.
there is an easy exercise to learn the proper RR pronunciation- you must repeat the following words:
atr la
atr le
atr li
atr lo
atr lu
if you exercise everyday after a week your “rr” will be much better.
The best way to do it is find someone – preferably a native speaker – who (a) can do it and (b) has a lot of patience, and both watch and listen to the way they do it. Then do the same for the single “r” sound. That’s how I did it – everybody CAN do it, it’s just a questgion of practice.