Help me spanish!!?

Question

I'm trying to learn to speak spanish and my families language Romanian. But they immigrated so long ago they were forced to learn other languages in WW2 and stuff. But (of course) I can't roll my damn R's! I mean I can get my tongue rollin like a trrain but I can't get the sound of the letter too roll! Help me before I blow my brains out! Help me stop merely hissing when I roll. Thank all of u who have an intelligble answer.

Alright ya. I know what you are talking about puttin your tongue near the roof of your and blowing. Yeah I got THAT covered. It rolls but for some reason when I try to say the letter I can here the sound of the R in the the distance but the sound of air swishing back and for won't go away.

Good News! I 've learned an important life lesson! When trying to roll an R. And you are capable of getting your tongue to roll but ya can't hear an R don't say "Roll" Just say **** IT!!!

Answer 1

I know your frustration very well because I used to not be able to roll my R's either. However, it is totally possible to learn how to do it--I know, because now I can do it.

I don't like copying and pasting my answers from my previous answers, but I've answered a few questions about this, and I think my answer was fairly thorough. So, here it is:

1. Curl your tongue and very lightly touch the very edge of it to the top of your mouth, the part where that ridge is at the very front of the hard palette.
2. Make an R sound and hold it for a bit longer. Also, get some air behind it. Keep in mind that this itself won't make your mouth do the right sound, so don't get frustrated.
3. Pick a couple of different words with different vowel sounds to practice with. When I was doing this, I used "perro" and "correr" a lot; I also used "pelirroja," but that one was a little more difficult for me. Try words that begin with R as well, as R's at the beginning of the word have a slight roll as well in Spanish: try "rumba" and "reloj."
4. Do this at every opportunity throughout the day: while driving, while sitting at home, while doing the dishes, while walking through the grocery store (if you're in public, you might want to whisper instead of saying it aloud :) )
5. At some point, almost as if by magic, your mouth will make the sound. It just will! Once it makes the sound for the first time, don't stop, keep practicing. I did this a year ago and I was able to roll my R's within a few days, and I still practice from time to time so I can improve the sound.

Another thing that really helped me was listening to music in Spanish, in which the singer makes very clear rolled R sounds. After I was able to make my mouth make the sound, I found that developing it was a bit easier while singing along than it was while talking (though keep practicing it while talking).

Do all of this until you get absolutely sick of it!! It will work, I promise!!

Buena suerte! And DON'T get so frustrated that you give up! You WILL be able to do it with practice.

Answer 2

Okay, here's a method I've told to other people and it always works eventually. Start by making the "raspberry" noise (i.e., bronx cheer, whatever you want to call it). Hold the sound, then while you keep blowing out air, simply pull your tongue backwards, keeping it against the roof of your mouth, until it is against the upper ridge in your mouth (the "alveolar ridge"). If you can hold this rolled "r" sound, you're almost there.

It looks like you've made it this far, already, but the next step is to vibrate your vocal chords simultaneously. You can do this while making a raspberry or while trilling a long "r".

Finally, try to add vowel sounds immediately after the "r", e.g. "rico", "rata", "ruso", "roto"...

Answer 3

Put your tongue in the same way that you do to make the car engine noise

In english, for the r's the tongue is far away from the ceiling of the mouth

In spanish it's closer to the ceiling

Try this, make the R sound like for RAT, say RRRRRRR and little by little move your toungue towards the ceiling of your moth slowly, the spanish R will come out, you'll see

Hope this help.

Answer 4

Well, I learned to speak Spanish as an adult. It's all in your tongue. Can you curl your tongue? If you can, then you can learn to roll your r's. If you can't curl your tongue it's going to be much harder. Don't ask me why it's like that, I don't know! But just keep practicing. Don't tighten up. Soon you'll be speaking like a native.

Answer 5

Some people just can't do it. Try making a purring sound.Put your tongue up near the top of your mouth and blow air over it.

Answer 6

Good news!!!

Most English speakers have difficulty with this sound.

Remember--you are speaking to people. If you pronounce words without the trill of the r's they will still understand you. It's what gives English speakers their accent while speaking Spanish.

Most Spanish speakers have problems pronouncing words that begin with sk. For example school might be pronounced as "eskool".

Answer 7

Its not so hard to say the R's, even babies do it while imitating the sound of cars, practice it and u will get it.

Answer 8

INgles sin barreras

Answer 9

No habla espanol.