Pronunciation - How to make the 'R' sound in English

[luba]

Hi Ronnie! I lived in USA for 20 years, but I am a grandmother, and I never go to school to learn proper English, I accidently found your video on you Tube, a week ago. I spend 16 hours of my day off. I can't stop watching your video!!!I was crying!!! After 20 years of struggle with heavy accent,  You  gave me hope!!! Maybe it is passable to minimize my embarrassing accent! Ronnie, you are on my pray list forever!!! God bless you for helping me!! It awesome, love, your friend forever! sincerely Luba

[linachao]

I'm not from Korea. My native language is Spanish. But I find this tremendously useful. Thank you, Ronnie. You are the best!

[ireneyang]

You are indeed a genius, Ronnie. I am completely impressed with your genuine and sincerity in teaching. I hope every single student who is struggling with the r sound may come across the video and has a lifelong problem solved. Keep up with the fantastic work! Thank you.
Oh by the way, I am Korean and there can’t be any clearer and precise way to master the r sound than this video. Two thumbs up!

[imyourdaddy]

I'm 15 and I hate the way I talk. I can't say r and it's annoying. I get picked on for it

[menacedemort]

I'm a French speaker, and pronouncing the "r" is also difficult. At the beginning, I couldn't even notice that my "r" was different, even when my friend would tell me that. But I can't pronounce the word "roast" correctly, I need to repeat myself, or follow it by "standoff" so that people will understand that I was saying roast.

[ScottWright]

You do realize you are everyone's favorite teacher now. . . you are engaging . . hilarious. . . and an amazing educator!! ROCK ON!

[booboodadfool]

My native advice would be to practice the words "rarely" and "Larry". They help expose not only the "R" at the front of the mouth but the "R" at the back. Also "rerun", "leer", "core", "lore", "porous" "portrait", "Forrest fire". "R" can be "very" throaty, like in the word "very". It's (r)eally only p(r)onounced when p(r)esent in the first few consonants. But in words like "first" the "R" is all throat. And the "R" in "throat" is pronounced like the "R" in "wrote", though it is a leading consonant is not p(r)onounced so.

[divinereminders]

Ronnie you seem to be the best English tutor on YouTube, Keep shining.

[blancoarnau]

Thank you vely much. Now I can plonounce the r pelfectly.

[joseeliaschacon]

it was very interesting, and even the spanish "r" is different from the english "r" because it is stronger than the english "r"

[alisasharnin]

"good afternoon, or evening"

Me, watching at 2 am:
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[candymiller]

I'm loving your way of teaching. I always have trouble pronounce this "r" sound. I speaks Mandarin. This technic really helps.Thank you so much. Keep up the good work!

[veroniquecartier]

You know I think this could work with a bit of practice. I'm French and the 'r' is as difficult as the 'th'.
Thank-you Ronnie !

[piketteo]

This is very interesting. I'm not from East Asia, but I am learning Japanese and it's kind of embrassing that even though I spent more time with English in my life, my accent in Japanese is way better. I'm going to try this, I'm really struggling with the "r" sound.

[BrandydocMeriabuck]

It's funny because in the part of England I'm from we don't pronounce r's at the end of a word if it ends in "er". We don't even say the "e". We change both into an "a". like the German "a", flat. ruler would be roola. with a short flat A at the end

[이해경-nc]

Thanks Ronnie. It really works! I used to have no problem with making r sound but I found my self unable to make r sound very well after living many years in a country without the letter. I regained my confidence thanks to you. By the way, I wonder how you invented the method.

[Imaan]

I’m so grateful to have you as a
teacher. You have taught me a lot of things. Thank you so much 😍

[ankokukitsune]

As a native English speaker who has been self-studying Japanese (日本語) for about 2.5 years and recently started some Korean (한국어) and Simplified Chinese (汉语) as well, I must say that this is pretty impressive. I wouldn't have thought of this method since pronouncing all English sounds obviously comes quite naturally to me, but I think it could definitely work as a technique for CJK speakers. And yes, the characters you used for the 'u' (like the 'oo' of 'zoo' in English) are correct. う and ㅜ make nearly the identical vowel sound (although for the Korean one to be a proper character it should be 우). And 吴 is a bit different, but quite close (the 'w' before the 'ú' is extremely soft); 唔 would also work.

[Susanzakho]

I am from Kurdistan and your name in Kurdish language ( Runi) means brightness, light and I have to say you have brightned my Rs.
Thank ever so much for your valuable time and effort, I am grateful to you.
You are the best and the most beautiful teacher in the world, you are the language magician, you make difficult subjects so easy to understand even an non academic person like me can learn from you.(
I did have a chance to study property in Kurdistan because of the war.)

[melontinii]

I'm fluent in English and that's it, it's crazy how I can do this r with ease but for the life of me can't do the Spanish trill. I wish I could swap or share my rs with other people so I could do both. Anyone who can't do the English r, I applaud you for being able to speak 2 languages which is truly a blessing