Re: Rating Languages

>    (Ditto for [x], though I like the sound.)
> Spanish: the fact that my trilled r's come out
> stuttery even after a lot of
>    practice and Dan Sulani's advice, though I think
> I've been making them
> too
>    far forward, because when I moved my tongue back
> a bit it became somewhat
>    easier.  But then it starts sounding like I'm
> inserting [h] before the
>    trill.  I know, I know, practice...
Korean doesn't have a trilled r?  I don't know a thing
about Korean, except that King Sejong was considered a
brilliant linguist and I have tried adapting some of
the principles of Korean writing to my own writing
systems.

I don't know what your trouble with the Spanish r is.
It's the sound "tt" in butter if you say butter
EXTREMELY fast and change the tt to a dd.  But
otherwise, I know there is a different way of
pronouncing it, and your comment about the h sound
reminded me of it.  I have been told that to pronounce
carro the common street way (not the way they teach
you in class) is something like breathing the trill.
I don't know how to explain it, but it is like doing a
trill, but not touching the palate and breathing hard
enough to trill the tongue.  It comes out sounding
like a trilled h rather than a trilled r.  Maybe
you're closer than you think.

Heather


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