How to Roll Your R's: The Definitive Guide
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- This step-by-step guide teaches you exactly how to roll your R's (the alveolar trill), using a method that really works. For advanced content and to refine your sound, visit: www.supercocoapp.com/post/how...
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It's been 5 years since I've tried to learn how to trill. Twice a year I queue up a ton of these videos and it feels like I'm entering a mid-life crisis each time!
So true
Try starting with a gurgle and moving your tongue around until you make some progress to exercise 4. Then follow the video. Start with laying down completely. I just did this and after 8 months I can do the closed mouth trill, one step from the alveolar trill.
I'm so thankful that I was born with a language that doesn't use the retroflex R
How do you know what a mid life crisis feels like
I hope you've got it! It took me months to get a grasp on it with many many practice sessions and attempts. I am still working on incorporating it into words.
I literally wanna cry
same
@@2thicc4u_94 i literally wanna talk spanish but i cant roll my tongue so its a bit difficult
@@hassansmith1934 Did you get it now?
Same
This is true
I was with you til step 4...
Me too. Just keep practicing vibrating your tongue and you'll get it.
I have probably watched 20+ videos on how to roll your Rs. This is the first one that went through enough steps that I can now do it. Very sincerely, thank you for posting this
How did You achieve this closed mouth trill? No matter the effort, I cannot do it, I can make a very tough vibration, but I've been unable to make it more delicate for months
This is an amazing tutorial!
Wonderful thorough breakdown.
But I STILL can’t do it!
I can “tap” trill (I get about 3 taps each time).
When I do the “shh” exercise, I’ve tried every possible combination of pressure, airflow and tongue position and shape that I can conjure up! Not even a slight trill at the tip.. ever! The “sides” will actually trill occasionally, but never the tip. Oh well.. I might keep trying, but at this point, it seems pretty hopeless. But it’s not the end of the world! I’m getting by pretty well with the “tap”. And maybe one of these days..
Still can’t do it
@@marchyman5061 im curious about your progress currently
I can’t even make the closed tongue trill
Me neither
I'm actually fairly confident by this point, you either can or you can't and people saying "everyone can do it" is just that positive/feel-good encouragement lol.
I've been following so many tutorials and still can't do anything that sounds like a rolled r and now it just make me cry every time
how do I move and relax my tongue at the same time?
Right 😔
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Do tongue movement/control exercises like the peanut butter scrape. Eventually you will be able to raise your tongue by flexing the base/back of your mouth while keeping the tip of your tongue relaxed. You can't do it yet because you've never needed to.
@@odyssean4305 hopefully I will, although I've tried a shit ton of times. This sound is in my native language and I still failed miserably at learning it
Thank you! I couldn’t figure out how to get passed step 4 but I laughed so hard trying to make it happen.
Ditto my dogs starting going wild like I was possessed
I've heard lying on your back and drinking a shot or two of vodka might help because it relaxes your tongue. I've been doing that for 2 weeks now and I'm exercising a lot more since
Interesting
I have no idea how to do step 4. My tongue just won’t vibrate
Well just skip it then, I can roll my r but I can't do step 4
@@gherardo1040 Exercise 4 appears to have broken what little R-rolling ability I once had. Thanks for nothing, CZcams.
Tip: For those of you stuck at the closed tongue trill, try it when lying down. Gravity seems to work wonders
Yes, that tip was excellent! Lying back seemed to free up any additional upward tension in the tongue and help curl the tip back that extra bit. I found it particularly useful to focus on the "Library 'shhh'" position, as it's different from the standard "sh" (e.g. "she", "shell", "shock"), where the lips are spread thin. The "shhh" you use in libraries has very rounded lips, and you're projecting the sound much further (as if to reach the ears of a distant person who needs to be silenced). Try doing the "Library 'shhh'" while laying back, find the ideal tongue position to make it flutter, then turn on your vocal cords.
@@damienliles5387 I don't know what I'm doing wrong m8 but no matter how hard I've tried it for weeks now I just don't get the trill. And everytime I think I get it, I get a uvular trill
This made me rain spit on myself, yay.
For me my performance gets even more pathethic than it already is while lying down
I think all that did was make me vibrate my spit LMFAO
Easy until step 4, 7:55, then nothing ;'(
Adam Sweeny I had to blow harder than I thought to make it work
exactly it is impossible
Doesn’t help at all
Sameeeeeeee😢
Todd Tolson omg thank you so much i was just gonna gave up till i saw this and i kept going and now i can finally roll my rs
I sound like im giving birth to an alien baby!
Thank you for this video, it’s by far the best I’ve seen.
This video got me trilling in less than 24 hours - thank you so much!!! I appreciate you so much:)
Anyone else get dizzy from breathing out so long practicing? Still trying
Thank you, very much (dziękuję bardzo). I found this video when I was searching how to trill the Polish letter R. Following your exercises I have managed to get my tongue to trill and even produce some sounds that were approximately, but not exactly like yours. I just need lots of practice now!
The ŚR combination is very difficult for me. I can roll my R on every other letter, but if you but an Ś there.. nie. I've tried to practise the word Środa many times. Do you have any issues with ŚR?
I enny you so much as a native Polish speaker! I've been trying to trill the r with no success. And I seem to have even greater issues than English native speakers trying to learn this sound, despite having the best environment to pick it up as a child
Wow for some reason I could do it after watching this video! Exercises 4 and 5 didn't work for me but I can pronounce the vowels and stuff! Still can't say it in words but I'm getting there! Thanks so much 💞 Now all there is left to do is practice!
If "closed-tongue trill" is supposed to be easy, then I'm pathethic. I cannot produce the vibration while closing the shh sound, I just cannot make the tongue less tense even while drunk. i generally do stuff either with muscles tensed significantly or not do anything at all with nothing in between
I can’t do it either. Really makes me feel so annoyed. :(
@@DoodleCherry same
Patiently waiting for somebody to reply how to relax your tongue
A comment above me suggests that we should try lying down and let gravity do it. But for me I think the air flow is going to the roof of my mouth, so i don't think I can do it :(@@noelleumina1181
OMG I FREAKING DID IT! TYSM! I’VE BEEN TRYING TO DO THIS AND I DID IT ON THE FIRST TRY WHEN I WATCHED THIS VIDEO
very complete and a little more practice and I will have it down pat - thank you!
Thanks for this. I never have been able to successfully roll my R's, and I assumed I wouldn't be able to. My tongue is less nimble than most people's tongues - I had surgery as a baby to remove skin from below my tongue so that I could use it as much as I can, and while I can make pretty much any sound my tongue is a bit more limited in its range of motion. Yet this lesson does seem to help - I can't really roll my R's properly yet, but I'm doing better just after a little bit of practice. I'll try practicing it a few more times on different days and see how it goes. I don't particularly mind if I can roll my R's in terms of learning languages such as Spanish, but I do want to have the technique available for speech in general. I have a very deep voice that others have said is quite charismatic, but I realized lately that I don't really take full advantage of it - so even exercises like this I feel could be useful to me.
How'd it go? Did you do it?
This is definitely the best tutorial ever.
I am pretty sure this closed tongue trill is just a uvular trill in which the vibration of the tonge against the alveolar ridge or palate is misinterpreted as the origin of the sound, when it is merely a side effect of the uvular trill. That's why there is clear change in sound when you switch into the alveolar sound. The involved aerodynamics are completely different.
I'm trying, but this just makes me laugh everytime
what the heck i couldnt do step 4 so i just skipped it and somehow learned to roll my rs lmao i guess something just clicked after all these years
8:15 and i can only hiss :(
I still can’t even do step 4 but I did find something that helped me start to get my tongue to almost do it. I have a tooth growing in at the moment and all the air was just escaping through the gap. I tried filling the gap with the wax they give you for braces and I could sort of vibrate my tongue, not quite trilling but a huge improvement.
Update (next day): I can do step 4 now. Being able to feel how it feels to flow the air properly helped a lot and I can now do it without the wax.
i need to try to do this some other time when i’m not worried about waking up my family 😂
This actually worked for me.
Amazing tutorial, as with all skills, practice makes you perfect
Sadly a trill sound doesn't occur if you just move your tongue towards roof of your mouth. It just makes a silent hiss sound.
This was the video!!! Surprisingly though I actually got my tongue to vibrate while doing the lip trill. Hopefully this helps someone else but I had my tongue in the position for the aveolar trill on my ridge and trilled my lips. This caused me to feel my tongue vibrate and I was able to keep my tongue vibrating after leaving my lips open. That’s how it finally clicked for me how to do the trill. Thank you so much for this video!
I don't know how it happened but I did it finally, you made it magically work. Thanks a bunch❤😅
this actually helped a lot. Still not quite there with voice, but at least I can get it vibrating now. The only video that helped, so thanks!
I am a Chinese and I think I kind of get it after a few days practice. Thank you. To add on, for Cantonese native speaker, I think another beginning trick to get the tongue vibrating is to flow the air like spitting from the throat. This may let thr tongue relax. The spitting motion will slowly fade out when you are more confident.
That's a helpful tip for a non-Cantonese speaker, too! Thank you.
I don't speak a lick of Cantonese but that advice actually really helped! I got it almost immediately after reading it!
the throat tip was so helpful, thank you!!
Great video!
This is a great guide but I still can't trill my r's 😔. Does it matter about the frequency of your breathing for the action to work?
This video taught me how to whistle
im a russian speaker, its my first language, but ive never rolled my Rs and it makes me really self consious and is the reason i dont speak around my parents' friends
I can do closer tongue trill I am surprised to feel my tongue can actually vibrate! Trying hard to make it final step! If I can do it, I will make a video to thank supercoco!
Very helpful!
Finally got it.
Finally this is the first video that got me this far
How do I get from uvular trill to this? I keep doing a uvular trill. My native language is English btw
I have no idea how to relax my tongue and I think that`s the problem
When doing the closed mouth trill, where is your tongue supposed to touch? It says roof of your mouth. But the pictures looks like the alveolar ridge. Tongue placement is huge & I'm confused
this has me soundin like i’m having a seizure 😩
well... I can whistle now
It worked!
OK so I can trill now. It's not a perfect native speaker trill, but my tongue tip is vibrating and I'm doing an Rrrrr most of the time I try. Honestly, it wasn't just one video that helped. There's another one of a young woman doing a "Ha-Rarrrr" technique that helped a lot too, but watching the others is useful as well. It did not just *click*. I have a narrow palate so that didn't help. A lot of times I felt I had it and then had trouble again. I practiced for a long time until I learned by feel how to make the air flow just right to get tongue tip to trill, then to add sound. I'm working on AH-rrrr now!
what i did was a mix of whats presented in this video. after the step at 07:55 i struggled to get anything to resemble a trill. what i did instead was hum while breathing out, and sliding my tongue up and down searching for a sweet spot. it seems to be getting me close to a trill. i can get distinct trills, but its not quite there yet.
Good job
Wow.
It's 2 days that I am searching an animation of the tongue while saying RRRR.
After 2 days and 10s of videos and tutorial, here I am.
Whewww.
7:58 my tongue just doesn't do that 💀
clearly the only thing most people consistently struggle with is relaxing the tongue, when will a tutorial explain *that* and not the same mouth placement and airflow explanations we've all heard before lmao
worked!
Kind i cant get though step4
My epiphany came at 20 and then again in slo-mo at 41 seconds. And it's not about the tongue and the alveolar ridge at all. Any dummy can put the tip of their tongue there. No - for me it was all about the placement of the back of the tongue. Have a look at 41 secs and you'll see how the back of the tongue lifts. This has the effect of directing the air flow across the tongue. As soon as I did this I was purring like a cat. I was trilling!!
I got my tongue to vibrate for the first time today and this what was did it for me. Even for the lip trill the back of the tongue is key.
My closed tongue trill sound like the dentist saliva sucky thing :( ...
Edit: anyone who managed to do it, How long did it take for you to get it? (closed tongue AND alveolar)
Despite what these tutorials claim, not everyone can roll their r’s. If your tongue is thick, you will not be able to do it.
I couldn’t grill my r’s even if my life depended on it
Yoann-Karl Kodom grill? Haha I know what u ment
I feel you bro I wouldn't know how to go about grilling any letter of the alphabet tbh
Don't play games with me r! where were you the night e went missing!
with lip trill generally as soon as I add voice it stops.
There HAS to be an easier way. Like a cue or something.
This video left me more broken than Monday.
I actually learned to do an unvoiced trill by this video, but I’m stuck there and can’t not get an voiced trill.
did you ever figure out how to do the voiced trill? im stuck at the same place. sorry i know this comment is 4 years old
Thanks, now I can whistle with my tongue.
Ok, now how do those of us with fat wide tongues do this? I'm learning old norse, so I need this for r's.
I can tell he loves eating Mc Donald’s from the shape of his moustache in the thumbnail
Omg i think i just did it for a sec then cant but at least i can ik what if feels like cuz i tried it for A SEC IT ONLY WORK FOR A SEC THEN I CANT DO IT SO LIKE I THINK I NEED MORE PRACTICE AND PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT AND TYSM FOR THIS VID IT REALLY HELPS
The Polish ŚR combination is by far the most difficult R sound.
Don't worry, I'm Polish, and ANY combination with the r sound, even the r itself, is ridiculously difficult, don't worry. Heck, it is so difficult for me to the point of never being able to pronounce the r. And it is in my native language. Anyway, I wish You good luck learning Polish!
I still can’t roll my r ❤I need to start practicing 🎉❤
I'm not sure if it's because of my overbite, but I can't even do the tongue trill from saying "shhh".
I can get the back of my tongue to trill but not the front. Having trouble figuring out what is meant by the "blade" of the tongue. I also keep looking up alveolar ridge and it says that's basically the gums or the part of your mouth that supports/holds your teeth in place? Wish I could find better pictures and descriptions of these things but google is letting me down.
I'm actually cursed, I can't do it. When I trill its like I'm doing the closed mouth trill but with my mouth open. It's just not right.
the 'SHH' step leading into step 4 is really not the best way to go about this - try using the tongue shape for the hard 't' in Trouble instead of shh for those struggling
I tried that and I heard the sound faintly for a millisecond so thank you for this comment it's the only thing that's showed me progress. But now the only sound I get is it sounds like I'm making the same sound as that air pick tool at the dentist office
ik this was years ago but thank you so much- this is what gave me a break through! Finally!
This really made a difference for me, thanks so much for this comment!
This is the only video that helped me do the trill. The only problem is whenever I do it, I make too much of a -th and -ss sound and it covers up the rr sound. I'm not sure how to fix it.
I have an overbite and I think it might be causing me trouble with tongue placement. Any advice?
i cant do the closed tongue trill. Any tips
goddamn it i can do the trill thingy with sound now but i can't do it after a vowel yet. So close I think I'll have it within a few days
every once in a while i forgot how to roll my r's and have a panic attack while i scour the internet for tutorials
Watched the video and attempted for days without success. I gave my husband a quick 20 second overview and he did it immediately.
Dammit.
Are there any tips to do it with voice? I think that's where I've got stuck
Could this be achieved when you have top and bottom full dental implant bridges? Air seems to be escaping through it when trying the tongue trill.
I just watched a guy make the motor noise for 5 minutes wtf
Does the part of your mouth where you gargle do anything?
I have laughed a great deal, but I still can't get past the closed mouth trill, either sitting or standing.
I cannot make even the closed mouth trill, the tongue won't vibrate while narrowing the shh sound
@@janboreczek3045 me too bro
@@janboreczek3045 thank God I'm not the only one, I just can NOT do it I have been trying and trying, I'm starting to get legitimately pissed off because every SINGLE one of these videos eventually reaches a "and then you roll your R" step and I NEVER EVER EVER EVER CAN NOT EVEN ONCE OMG 🤬🤬🤬🤬
Yooo same yall the best I can do sounds like a growling dog-snake for some reason
i am 28 year old , i am learning roll R now ,this video help me a lot thanks
Hi,I am not able to pronounce R sound,instead I sound it as L.Do you face the same problem and if you overcame it,how did you do that?
@@vamseekrishnatatikonda3056 I follow this video and I really practiced 2 hour a day for 3 weeks before practice I did tongue execise
How do you voice your trill?
Just keep practicing, I thought I could never do it, after a while of doing it, you'll eventually just do it on your own, and a little warning it May or may not sound weird, so try and clean it up a bit and your good
Finally
I DID IT
my tongue vibrates on the side of my mouth how do i get the tip to vibrate
I truly believe it's not possible for everyone. I've grown in a Puerto Rican family, I know a bit of Spanish, but I physically cannot get the rolled R and I've been trying for a decade now. Closed mouth I can get some sort of vibration in the tongue going, but it doesn't sound anywhere near the one in the video. As soon as I open my mouth, no more tongue vibration, my throat tries to take over the vibration. I'm trying to get the word "perro" or "carro" but I can't do the "ro" shape while keeping my tongue up top, it automatically lays down and curls. I'm great at saying it with a ovular trill though.
I have a friend who’s an opera singer. She had to study this and she says for people who really can’t, you have to do tongue strengthening exercises. Maybe you’ll find some luck with that
Yes, I agree. In my native language, Swedish, we have lots of rolling R. But there are a few who never manages it, and it can't exactly be because they haven't tried enough since they are raised with rolling R's.
could really not make my tip of the tounge vibrate. been trying to do this since 2014.
I'm stuck at 4 and 5, I have it but when I try to use it in a word. I can not.
I can't even do the closed mouth trill, this is beyond frustrating. I've been trying for so long
Have you done it yet 😭😭😭.
I keep trying and I just make Shhhhh or Hmmmmm. I can’t get a R sound 😭😭😭
@@PCs454 I can do it now! But I didn't get it from doing what this video says. I got it from doing tongue exercises aimed to strengthen and stretch the tongue. I found them from various different videos. I did them for about a week every single day. Alongside that I practiced saying vorrei but split into two parts, so vor rei really fast. Eventually, after a LOT of practicing, my tongue started to flap one more time than usual. So I kept going until the trill got longer and longer. Now, I can do it until I run out of breath. Now, I'm still practicing, but with different combinations of sounds together. It's super frustrating and annoying, believe me I understand that, but you really do just have to keep practicing until it happens. Unless you're tongue tied, you CAN do it
@@LucyGem98 my tounge goes to the top of my mouth and stays there and i make a Shhh or Hummm sound i cant move it down and make R 😔
@@PCs454 You're not making an R sound when you trill, if you try to make an R sound it won't work. Your tongue is vibrating against wind and the roof of your mouth. You need to do the tongue exercises because you're probably tensing it up too much, that's what I was doing. If you can't do the alveolar tap then you need to learn how to do that first
@@LucyGem98 *i dont know how to explain it. but when i do it now, its like a motorbike sound?*
is that normal? my tounge doesnt visibly vibrate in the mirror ;-;
Even though I can do the closed tongue trill, I am just stuck on the Alveolar mouth trill, I can not for the life of me figure out how I can only have the tip of my tongue on the alveolar ridgge without sacrificing airflow that makes it bounce?
How is the tongue relaxed if you are using tongue muscles to lift the tip?
That’s exactly what happens to me and what I ask to myself
Well, I can kinda do it now, but my rolled R's come out super stuttery and sound really stupid.