The “R” sound in American English is an area where many of my students make tremendous progress in their spoken English. You can use this video to learn exactly how to make the “R” sound—including how to position your tongue and lips in order to have your spoken English sound like a native speaker’s. These 5 tips for the “R” sound focus on how you can make the sound with more confidence and increase a listener’s comprehension of your English speaking. The “R” consonant is a tricky subject by you’ll be studying with an experienced teacher!
You’ll learn the two distinct ways to make the “R” sound, how to make the “R” sound as a vowel and how to correctly position your mouth to mimic native speakers. In teaching these 5 tips I’ll show you live teaching of the “R” sound from my online school, Rachel’s English Academy, where I work with students in my live online classroom every month. By watching how I teach students live you’ll gain unique insight into how the concepts of the “R” sound are put into practice by actual students.
Learning English as spoken English is a wonderful challenge for you as an English student. The American English “R” sound is a way for you to perfect your accent and this video is a lot of fun. These 5 tips for “R” will re-shape your English speaking regarding a critical consonant/vowel sound and make you sound more and more like a native speaker.
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I like your way of pronouncing R (tongue bunched not too far backward, staying in the forward half) over other teachers approach where they're telling you to tense it hard in the back of the mouth (near the molars) and also that R should be generated in the backward half of the tongue. To me the two approaches seem totally opposite. Right?
In US, are there actually multiple ways of tensing the tongue backwards (NB: not talking about two way of managing the tongue tip)? The aforementioned teachers, though native, have their Rs sounding like pirates (though jaw drop isn't a lot). What are your thoughts on this?
Another thing I've noticed is the differing information on the tongue surface contour – some suggesting it should be taco shaped (depression in the middle lengthwise), others suggesting it should be kept flat. Any thoughts on this? Should I worry about this aspect?
Hi Rachel, Why don't you mention the [ɚ] and [ɝ] symbols for those 'r' shaped the vowels? Otherwise, love your videos!
Very interesting video
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u r insane. thanx, i hope it would get my mom finally say it
Your video is very essential to understand the pronunciation difference of the letter R especially for someone like me who has difficulty in pronouncing R in both English and French.😅 Thanks a lot for this video.😊
Hello – Do you have online classes, i am interested to join , i want to be perfect in accent
thank you so much for this video! i had a little bit of trouble with r in word order , but now it's easy to pronoun!
I can't pronounce the R!!!! Especially in Party, Thirty, literally…
Why don't you have any videos on the r colored vowels? You should makes us one of your beautiful series about ɪr, ɛr, ɑr, ɔr and aɪr.
Wow! This video is so helpful and fun! I love how you explain the 'r' sound with clear examples and tips. I have a question though: how do you pronounce the word "earth's" in the sentence "let's talk about the earth's rotation"? I find it hard to say the 'r' and the 'th' sounds together. Can you please make a video on that? Thank you so much for your amazing work!
This is really interesting about pronouncing the R sound in the two ways. Personally I think after some time of speaking English on daily basis in my work I more often if not most of the time use the second way. That is when I want to make R sound I just pull back my tongue along with positioning my tip of it towards the top.
I think that way is like more "lazy" or I would say more "relax" way where I don't need to exhale that much amount of air as for the first method. The first way is like more accurate, smoother and the second way which I prefer is like it sounds more harsh, raw and I would say it's like you have a hoarse voice, or when you wake up in the morning you have that voice deeper and more harsh.
Does anybody could relate to that or is it just me thinking there are people who just prefer to speak like that because it feels more relaxed and not being super accurate all the time.
I want to be your student( face to face using zoom) How can i do it?
Hi Rachel. What’s the difference between ɹ̴ and ɹ̩?
I find other possition working better my native uses r that sounds much alike french r with alot of vibration and tounge is in possition just like as described in first few mins. So i learned second tounge possition and my mentor told me to imagine just like having a bubble gum below the tip of my tounge so i could tilt up the tip of the tounge. And that is how i eliminated vibration from my American R. 😊
I want to use the first R version so I try not to lift my tongue tip towards the ridge but it is hard to not do. Any tips, please?
also some peop[le say Americans speak like animals growl, where should I make sounds mostly when speaking American englihs? should I feel a bit of stress in the back of my mouth close to my throat when speaking?
Even as a English speaker , I still have trouble with the R especially the word roar . So I will continue practice.
You are best teacher . I am studing English in Jordan .Your lessons are perfect.
i speak very well when i watch you.Thank you very much
Could you please tell me how to pronounce W and V whenever they are together I get baffled..
Rachel, thank you for your response to my previous question re R sound. I have another one to make the R sound. Some other YouTube teachers are advising us to have both sides of our tongue (also back part of the tongue) to touch the back teeth. Are you also recommending this (in some of your videos)?? If not, I would also like to know why. Thank you very much.
Rachel, Thank you for these amazing learning opportunities! I love your videos!
I have a question re a R sound in "word, first, hurt, world, girl, birthday, bird" (@7:02 in your video) and another R sound at the end of the words, like in "teacher, brother, whisper, faster" (@8:03). They sounds almost the same to me. Can you explain the differences between these 2 types of R sound? What I guess is: (1) There is a stress in the first sound, while the there isn't in the 2nd; (2) the sides of the lips are more relaxed in the 2nd sound. So, my guess is that the difference could basically due to being stressed or not stressed… Looking forward to hearing from you. Mitsuko