In the video Olli posted, in order to say 'Turisas' properly, one must roll the R, but try as I might, I cannot do this. Can anyone tell me how they do this, or does it just occur naturally?
R is a funny sound. It depends a lot on your native language. Unless you learn the sound at a young age, you're stuck whith what your native language has to offer. I started learning English at age 6 and my R is sort of OKish, I started French at 14 and my R is really flimsy. cheers, wm_crash, the friendly hooligan
well, you can always still learn it if you practice enough...surely it´ll never sound like from a native speaker, but still better than no rolling R at all
Or take singing lessons just to learn the R. The expensive way. There's a common warming up exercise where you go like "rrrrrriiii rrrrraaaa rrrrruuuuu"... I hate that.
hahaha now that would really be an expensive way of doing it XD when I started my finnish lessons we were SO forced to learn it...and mine still sounds like...crap XD
Everyone practice your rolling R's: cRRRRRap . . . cRRRRRRRRRRRRRRap . . . cRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRap Now get a stopwatch and time the length of your roll; then post your result here. Anyone with excessive claims needs to post a vid of the achievement. cheers, wm_crash, the friendly hooligan
it's actually pretty easy to roll an R. I can let it go for as long as I have breath left in my lungs so...25 seconds or so?
Just practice. Sit there in your bedroom and roll R's on every word you can think of, even if it sounds ridiculous. When I started learning Swedish, I caught onto rolling the R's very quickly but I may have gotten used to the sound (and I tried to practice it) when I spent time in Finland.
Me neither, when I try it seems to come from the back of my throat rather than with my tongue =/ Makes it harder to insert rrrr's in the middle of words! It just drowns the entire word in 'r'
It's pretty easy if you're from the Netherlands. Btw, there are 2 ways to roll it. You can push you're tongue against the back of your teeth and roll it. Or you can push your tongue "up" in your mouth, a little to the back and roll it
Like in "perrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrkele <3" too. I have the same problem, but as a bonus, my language DOES contain rolled R's and I also take singing lessons. Doesn't help. I feel incomplete.
I have the same problem, but I've always had problems with my R's. D: Though I can at least roll my R's when singing classical pieces. Try taking singing lessons. That's all I can think of suggesting. Or move to a country where the native language forces you to roll your R's. Might help a bit.
no, that doesn´t really help - at least not for me. my rolling r ability was okish when I moved here to FIN, and didn´t improve though I did two Finnish courses and try to speak Finnish in my freetime...XD
why dont try tongue twisters!! spanish are the best haha maybe the most popular in my country is: Erre con erre cigarro, erre con erre barril. Rápido corren los carros, los carros de ferrocarril. i learnt that one but instead the last 2 sentences was rapido ruedan las ruedas del rapido carro del ferrocarril haha, sorry youtube is blocked so i have no video to show how it is pronunced XD