Thread: Can you roll your R's?

Can you roll your R's? Do you need to be able to roll your R's to speak Spanish?

I cannot roll my r's. How is it done?

I can't roll my r's either... is there a trick to do it? I've been trying for years but to no avail.

I wonder if anyone can find an online tutorial about how to roll r's. There must be a way to learn how to do it.

I can do it, but it's because my main language is Portuguese, and there are similarities, can you tell what words are you having trouble on? I can try to help!

Yes--and I thank 'Sesame Street' for it all the time! My mother can't do it, she also cannot make the aspirate H (back palate throat-clearing noise) sounds for a Scottish accent, and Hebrew (which is fine, since she isn't Jewish.)

Most ppl who don't learn it as children have a lot of trouble picking it up as adults, so I wish you luck!

Cheers.

Originally Posted by tallman33

I wonder if anyone can find an online tutorial about how to roll r's. There must be a way to learn how to do it.

I found an article on improving your Spanish pronunciation that includes a section on how to roll your 'r'. I think this is the biggest challenge for anglos.

Here is the article:

Lose That Gringo Accent!

cool link you've got there for us... i can roll r's and i think i could speak really well, because it's a romance language like mine i like how they call anglos:"Gringos". it sounds pretty funny.

I also can't roll r's, and sometime it embarrassing me. What should I do to solve this?
Any idea?

I can roll RRRRR. I would suggest just keep on practicing, it will automatically get develop.

Yes, but I started taking Spanish classes in the 5th grade.