How do you make the French R sound? I have not really taken any French classes and am trying to learn French. I have heard some recordings of it and such but I can't really put my finger on how to make the noise. can anyone help? please! Thanks!
2006-09-30 09:56:58 · 11 answers · asked by Diego 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
The Parisian r is a voiced uvular fricative. Forget what everyone else has said. Here is the physical description.
Take the back of your tongue and raise it toward the top back of your mouth like you are making a 'g'. Do NOT touch the top of your mouth with your tongue. Now carefully move the back of your tongue a little further back. It will also get lower in your mouth as well. Now make a voiced sound (if you are not already). If you are not touching the top of your mouth with your tongue and you are voicing that sound (feel your vocal cords and make sure they are vibrating like you are trying to make a 'g' without touching the roof of your mouth), then you are making a voiced uvular fricative and the 'r' of Parisian French.
2006-09-30 12:27:42 · answer #1 · answered by Taivo 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The best way to think about it is that there is no R in french learn it as a new sound a new letter. Nothing like the R you know. Seriously my sister told me that and she's speaks french fluently and lives in Paris. I am only learning but it really helped my thought process. Good luck it's fun.
2006-09-30 19:35:53 · answer #2 · answered by leviathia 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Try to make a normal R sound, but keeping your tongue flat in your mouth - don't allow it to curl up.
It is a combination of this sound together with the rather distasteful sound of coughing up mucus.....
You will hear the same R sound from older people in north Northumberland, and even sometimes in Yorkshire, but this is much less common.
If you are in the UK you may recall the bread TV commercial where the voice-over said 'bread wi' nowt tekken out...' He had a gutteral R.
It is pretty much the same as the German R
I hope this helps....
2006-09-30 10:13:52 · answer #3 · answered by aarcue 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The sound a lion make but not that loud.
2006-10-02 15:31:33 · answer #4 · answered by Le prisonnier 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
choke on it, thats the best way I can describe it
Its hard to get down until you really hear it pronounced by a native speaker
2006-09-30 11:07:47 · answer #5 · answered by manateewatcher 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try gargling in the back of your throat. That's the approximate
sound.
2006-09-30 10:03:56 · answer #6 · answered by steiner1745 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
its a nasael sound meaning you speak it through your nose/ throat instaed of useing your toung an lips...
2006-09-30 11:46:21 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
sort of like an "H" sound, but "roll" it in the back of your throat.
2006-09-30 10:01:53 · answer #8 · answered by Alias400 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
make as if you want to spit
2006-09-30 13:42:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
dude. this is WRITING. i can't demonstrate it to you online.
also, if you can't, you just can't do anything about it.
2006-09-30 09:59:29 · answer #10 · answered by kittens 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋