Ok, so here I am trying to learn a language, Estonian to be specific as that's where my father is orginally from. Now if the language wasn't difficult enough with it's 14 noun cases etc. to my horror I've found out that it quite commonly uses a rolling "R" sound, similar to Spanish. Now I just can't seem to get this right and have tried asking my dad, who speaks the language fluently and have looked at various websites here and there but whatever I try it just doesn't come out right.
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Thought I might as well throw it out on here as almost a last resort as this forum seems to be all-knowing and ask if anyone's got any tips for making the sound?
The other week I was watching boxing and the ring announcer bloke, Michael Buffer (got to love him) sounded amazing when he introduced Fer-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-ocious Fe-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-nando Va-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-gas. :) Wish I could do that.
For what it's worth, here's a recording of the words kõrv (ear) and sõrm (finger) the way they should sound followed by my pathetic attempts.
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Any help much appreciated and as you can tell, needed. :eek: :D
Sorry, missed the part about your dad :o I don't think you can teach someone to roll the R's without actually being able to show how it should be done....
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No problem and I half-suspected that may be the case. It was worth a shot anyway.
Posting on here was almost my last resort and I might have to sign up for Spanish lessons as some kind of night classes in the new year (there sure as hell won't be any in Estonian) just to be able to make that sound. Maybe a professional teacher would be able to help better. Got no real desire to learn Spanish but at least by then I'll know if I want to keep up with Estonian, (only started after the end of the football season) and until then I'll either continue to pronounce it very badly or concentrate more on the written word.
That's probably a crazy way of going about things but is pretty much all I have left, and who knows? Maybe I'll find that I really enjoy Spanish *shrug.
Thanks for the input.
Sorry, missed the part about your dad :o I don't think you can teach someone to roll the R's without actually being able to show how it should be done....
Why don't you ask your father?
I have, (thought I said that) and either he isn't a good teacher or I just suck.
Probably the latter.:mad:
oh, that shouldn't be a problem
just keep practicing with words like:
raul
cucaracha
gringo
primero
puertoriqueño
ron
cerrado
etc
good luck ;)
Why don't you ask your father?
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linguists (Spanish speakers might be able to advise) - Rolling R's