Is this the Hardest Sound in Any Language? [Long Short]

[silksongreactions]

I was suspicious when every step made the sound seem easier

[ZhadTheRad]

"What possible crazy language could have such an impossible sound to pronounce?"

Immediately when you said that I was like "It's English, isn't it?" and it was 🤣

[theradiumgirl]

I've considered teaching English abroad before, but I have no idea how in the hell I would explain "r" in a way that makes sense, so I'm not sure what I'd do

[NatphiphatTunjoy]

Instruction unclear. I now speak villager.

[DankePrime]

Wow, I didn't realize this would end up as just R.

[nick-curr]

by the end i was ready for him to break into RAHW-RAHW-RAH AH-AH WANT YOUR BAD ROMAAANCE

[bright]

tfw every language you speak has the necessary sounds

[rachelle]

I'm in an English speaking student theatre society in the Netherlands, and I was in a play where one character was meant to speak in a Southern US accent. The girl that was cast to play this character is German, and one rehearsal when we focused on pronunciation, we spent a stupid amount of time trying to help her figure out how to say this r. You can imagine a room full of people going r.... eerrrr...." and trying to figure out what their tongues are doing and then explaining it.

[bigbubba]

As a Midwesterner, I can confirm that our dialect does indeed exist

[lizzybach]

Most general Hindi speakers pronounce the ‌‍‌‌ग़ as ग. In fact, the • put in these letters (known as nukta) is often disregarded. Basically, क़ ख़ ग़ are often pronounced as क ख ग and so on.

[felipevasconcelos]

0:24 “we’re gonna turn that fricative into an approximant”
Easy, that’s just [w] without labialization.
0:57 “we still have to labialize the consonant”

[brauljo]

1:11 i was like, that just sounds like english /r/

[kvalus]

as a russian speaker in america i can confirm when i'm speaking fast i accidentally roll my r's

[WingsTM]

Do a short on Georgian…lots of crazy throat sounds there :)

[GurtBFroe]

Wikipedia has a note on this too in their "Pronunciation of English R" page.

[disjaibled]

Its also used in the accents from the south west of england, watch hot fuzz and youll hear it everywhere.
Especially in the iconic phrase “Alright me lover!”

[MinorLife]

As a Ukrainian, I see this as a slightly easier challenge

[sakkikoyumikishi]

I saw that one coming from a mile away. English has *so many* realisations of the /r/, from full deletion through the full range of fluids and approximants to taps and even trills, if someone whips out a weird and extremely specific realisation of /r/, it's *probably* in English. 😂

Wanna try something actually difficult? Do the Czech Ř 😂

[Aldiyawak]

Was suspicious of any Rasputin reference. Not today.

[charliemayfilms]

Me the whole video: nah I can’t do that
Me at the end: oh 💀