Hey folks, two interesting tidbits I'll talk about:

My boss's younger daughter had troubles with her rr's when she was growing up in Venezuela, so she had to attend speech therapy classes.  When they moved here, she had no problems learning the english r, and so her problem "went away".  In reality she still can't do the rr, but his kids never speak spanish anymore so in a way, problem solved.

I learned how to do the rr in a strange way.  All my life I had never been able to do it (never really had to worry about doing it, but whenever someone asked if I could rrrr, I couldn't).  Then one day, I was in Germany camping with some people, one of them being a really annoying needy portuguese guy.  I (cruely) made fun of him behind his back, imitating his calls "Chris, wherrrr arrr you?  Wherrr arrr you?"  And, upon imitating him, I managed to accidentally imitate his rolled r's.  The rest of the day when everyone else went to to beach, I stayed in the tent practicing.  A couple years later I started learning Spanish, so it helped!

JP:

My Latina friends tell me that my pronouciation is very good, except that my RRs sound very "gringo".

I am determined to overcome this Americanismo.....

Antonio

El gringo latino

I learned to trill my /rr/ while running on a cold day. All of a sudden, I could just do it. Of course, that doesn't mean that I can say correr all that well. I'm still working on that.

Keep on truckin' you guys, practice makes perfect.  I've been told my rr's are too strong.  At this point, being understood and getting my message across is a good accomplishment!

i don't know spanish do you have a password journal if so can any body tell me what their saying

thank you

Here's is popular tongue twister :

Erre con erre cigarro,Erre con erre barril.

Ra'pido corrren los carros, Los carros de ferrocarril.

AHH!  hasta que empece a estudiar el espanol, no he podido hacer el "r"...es muy muy frustrante!  gracias por los trabajalenguas.  Estais seguro que todo el mundo lo puede hacer con suficiente practico?  Porque he estado practicando por muchisimo tiempo!  y todavia, no "rrrr"

can you help me how to speak spanish?

how to speak in spanish the word "Good afternoon"..?

shaine08

Buenas tardes - good afternoon

Here is a link to some Spanish greetings.

http://spanish.about.com/library/beginning/bl-beg-basics-greetings.htm

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