zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5153 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 1 of 4 29 April 2011 at 2:36pm | IP Logged |
I'm having a little difficult with this sound. I think I can do the sound (I'll post a
sound sample later and see what you guys think of it). But the major problem is when I
try to actually use it in words like hello or sister. I just can't seem to make at all
unlike when I do it by itself. Is there something I'm doing wrong to cause this?
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Mauritz Octoglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 4877 days ago 223 posts - 325 votes Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Esperanto, French Studies: Old English, Yiddish, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Korean, Portuguese, Welsh, Icelandic, Afrikaans
| Message 2 of 4 29 April 2011 at 6:58pm | IP Logged |
I have this problem as well, because the sound is not present in my dialect of Swedish.
This has caused me problems in Russian, Spanish, Italian etc and even Standard Swedish!
My best tip is to just continue practicing it until you get it. It's harder to use it in
a word (especially in Russian words!) than by itself, but you will succeed eventually.
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tbone Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4800 days ago 92 posts - 132 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian
| Message 3 of 4 29 April 2011 at 7:12pm | IP Logged |
Now I get it. When you wrote 'P', you were writing in Cyrillic, right?
In this article
http://www.fluentin3months.com/getting-rid-of-your-english-a ccent/
Benny pointed to an article with a slew of techniques for getting the (in my case, Spanish) 'r' down:
http://www.wikihow.com/Roll-Your-%22R%22s
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clang Groupie United States Joined 5148 days ago 54 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Italian
| Message 4 of 4 29 April 2011 at 7:22pm | IP Logged |
The p-d-d-d-ince of pe-d-d-d-rsia. The p-d-d-d-ince of pe-d-d-d-rsia. The p-d-d-d-ince of pe-d-d-d-rsia.
I walked to Russian class repeating this over and over and over again. Thinking of the "р" as multiple fast d's
was the way I learned to stick the rolled r into words!
Edited by clang on 29 April 2011 at 7:23pm
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