{"id":70188,"date":"2019-02-05T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/?p=70188"},"modified":"2024-03-03T18:13:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T18:13:02","slug":"5-tips-for-r-in-american-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/5-tips-for-r-in-american-english\/","title":{"rendered":"5 tips for \u201cR\u201d in American English"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this easy-to-use video you\u2019ll learn the 5 tips you need to master the American English \u201cR\u201d sound.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>YouTube blocked? <\/strong><a href=\"#video\">Click here to see the video.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube js-lazyload--not-loaded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jCiE6PQbM2w\" class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" data-video-title=\"THE &quot;R&quot; IN AMERICAN ENGLISH | 5 POWERFUL TIPS | ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION | RACHEL\u2019S ENGLISH\" title=\"Play video &quot;THE &quot;R&quot; IN AMERICAN ENGLISH | 5 POWERFUL TIPS | ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION | RACHEL\u2019S ENGLISH&quot;\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/jCiE6PQbM2w<\/a><noscript>Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jCiE6PQbM2w\" title=\"THE &quot;R&quot; IN AMERICAN ENGLISH | 5 POWERFUL TIPS | ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION | RACHEL\u2019S ENGLISH\">THE &quot;R&quot; IN AMERICAN ENGLISH | 5 POWERFUL TIPS | ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION | RACHEL\u2019S ENGLISH (https:\/\/youtu.be\/jCiE6PQbM2w)<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/p>\n<p><h2>Video Transcript:<\/h2><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Hey Guys \u2013 Exciting video here.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to go over my top 5 tips for the R sound, and you\u2019ll get to see me working with real students as I help them live to get the sound.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Today, I\u2019m going to go over the tips I use when I\u2019m working with students.\u00a0 As you\u2019re actually practicing and getting the R, this is what you\u2019ll want to watch.\u00a0 These tips will help you finally get this really tough sound.\u00a0 Won\u2019t that be fabulous to have a perfect sounding American R?\u00a0 You may have already seen my video on the R, how to, a great video with illustrations and up-close, slow motion views of the mouth.\u00a0 I\u2019ll link to that at the end of this video if you want to see it again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Watching and mastering all 5 of these tips will make your American R sound amazing.\u00a0 Tips 4 and 5 are critical so make sure to watch all the way through.\u00a0 Here we go!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Tip number one:\u00a0 It\u2019s important to know that there are two different ways that native speakers make the R.\u00a0 So, you may have heard or seen information that was conflicting and been confused.\u00a0 No need \u2013 they both work to get the right sound.\u00a0 Here they are.\u00a0 I find my students get a better, more accurate R sound when they use this position:\u00a0 middle part of the tongue lifted, tip pulled back slightly.\u00a0 So even though there are two different ways a native speaker might get this sound, I suggest as a non-native speaker that you use this position.\u00a0 You\u2019ll have a more precise sound.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Tip number two:\u00a0 notice that position.\u00a0 The one I want you to use.\u00a0 The tongue tip is pulled back a bit, it\u2019s not touching the front teeth.\u00a0 However, some of my students pull the tongue tip way too far back.\u00a0 That makes it sound like this, rrrr.\u00a0 It sounds like the R is trapped in my mouth.\u00a0 Rrr, we want this sound.\u00a0 Like the R is shooting out of the mouth, not being held back.\u00a0 If the tongue is pulled too far back, the sound gets stuck in the mouth.\u00a0 A good way to work with this is to purposefully pull your tongue really far back.\u00a0 Rrr, pull it as far back as you can. Rrr&#8211; Then pull it forward.\u00a0 Touch the back of your teeth, and then pull it back just a bit, rrrr.\u00a0 Rrr, rr.\u00a0 Just a tiny bit. Sometimes doing it wrong, pulling the tongue tip too far back, can help you find what\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">If the tongue tip is pulled too far back, it brings extra tension here, rrrr, at the base of the tongue. We don\u2019t want that.\u00a0 Tip more forward, base of tongue relaxed, sound flowing forward.\u00a0 Rrrr&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Watch me working with a student on this sound.\u00a0 Here, we were working on words with the UR vowel, like in \u2018Burma\u2019 and \u2018internal\u2019.\u00a0 Urrr, urrr&#8211; We talk about forward flow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When we were talking\u00a0about the UR vowel just then\u00a0I was talking about really<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">releasing the throat here\u00a0and relaxing the base of the tongue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But I also sense that\u00a0it could be that when\u00a0you&#8217;re trying to make the R,\u00a0the tip of your tongue\u00a0is pulling too far back\u00a0and that also makes\u00a0the sound feel trapped.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So, you know, it&#8217;s hard to explain.\u00a0Does the tongue pull back, yes.\u00a0Is there such thing as too much, yes.\u00a0So it&#8217;s a delicate balance between\u00a0having it too far forward,\u00a0and having it too far back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is where our tongue, like, meets our,\u00a0is attached basically.\u00a0So, if you think of,\u00a0I&#8217;m gonna say lowering a little bit,\u00a0lowering and relaxing your neck, uh, uh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Think of there being a\u00a0little bit of weight there\u00a0and that might help<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">open it up and relax it,\u00a0and let the sound come out, ur.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ur.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That sounded really nice, ur.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ur.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Good, and the second\u00a0time wasn&#8217;t quite as good.\u00a0Your lips didn&#8217;t come into quite as much\u00a0of the correct position,\u00a0but that was better.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That&#8217;s the feeling that we\u00a0always need is the forward flow.\u00a0We&#8217;re never stopping things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Notice there I mentioned lip position.\u00a0 I said the lips didn\u2019t come into quite as much of the correct position. \u00a0 The correct position is a little bit flared.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Already so much good stuff and there are 3 more tips coming right up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Tip #3 is:\u00a0 create a little bit of space between your lip and your gum. Rrrr&#8211; Right here. Rr&#8211; rr&#8211;\u00a0 Watch me explain this to a student.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Were.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&gt;&gt; Right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&gt;&gt; Am I doing it right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Yeah. It&#8217;s just creating\u00a0a little extra space\u00a0between your gum up here and\u00a0the back side of the lip.\u00a0You&#8217;re just&#8230;\u00a0It&#8217;s not that it&#8217;s not touching.\u00a0It&#8217;s still touching, but it&#8217;s just,\u00a0you&#8217;re pulling it away a little bit.\u00a0It&#8217;s like a tiny bird beak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Err, were.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Okay,\u00a0I think you should\u00a0probably think about doing\u00a0with the bottom lip too.\u00a0So here as well.\u00a0You&#8217;re just creating a\u00a0little bit more space.\u00a0So you&#8217;re taking this part of your lip,\u00a0and this part of your lip,\u00a0and you&#8217;re just like\u00a0pushing it out a little bit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0Err.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0&gt;&gt; Err.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0&gt;&gt; Yeah that was good. That was good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&gt;&gt; Err, err, err.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0&gt;&gt; That was good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And that&#8217;s sounding really clear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The first ones were a little\u00a0bit, like, stuck back,\u00a0but by bringing that part of\u00a0your lips just a little bit out,\u00a0it&#8217;s bringing the sound forward\u00a0and it&#8217;s sounding a lot more open and free and a lot more accurate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">One thing to be careful about with the flare is the corners of the lips.\u00a0 They should be relaxed.\u00a0 Rrr. Rrr.\u00a0 They come forward just a bit.\u00a0 Rrr, rr.\u00a0 This is what you want for the R vowel.\u00a0 What?\u00a0 The R vowel?\u00a0 Yes, R can be a consonant or a vowel \u2013 we\u2019ll get to that in a second.\u00a0 First I want to add, for a beginning R, the lips do round more, they come into a tighter circle:\u00a0 Right, Rachel, Wrong. Rrrrrr&#8211; wrong. A beginning R more rounded than a lip flare. Right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This brings us to Tip #4:\u00a0 R can be a consonant or a vowel.\u00a0 This is surprising to a lot of people, but when you see this vowel sound, this symbol, it\u2019s the R vowel, and there\u2019s no change in sound between it and the R consonant.\u00a0 So this vowel symbol is always followed by the R consonant symbol, and they are not two different sounds.\u00a0 Do not try to make some sort of vowel and then an R.\u00a0 This is a common mistake. This combination of symbols making one sound, urr&#8211;,\u00a0is in a lot of common words like word, first, hurt, world, girl, birthday, bird, and so on.\u00a0 Word, ww, rrr, dd.\u00a0 Three sounds, not four, because the R vowel and consonant are the same.\u00a0 Ww, rr, dd.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Tip #5:\u00a0 the ending ER sound.\u00a0 Just like with the R vowel-consonant combination in tip 4, two sounds here combine, they become just one sound.\u00a0 That is, the schwa and the R.\u00a0 The schwa sounds like this:\u00a0 uh, and the R sounds like this:\u00a0 RR.\u00a0 So, together, you would think they would be uh, rr, uh, rr, uhrr, uhrr.\u00a0 But they\u2019re not.\u00a0 R takes over the schwa and erases it.\u00a0 We call that a syllabic consonant.\u00a0 So it\u2019s just RR. Rrrr&#8211;\u00a0 This ending is very common, let\u2019s look at some words:\u00a0 teacher:\u00a0 teach-rr.\u00a0 Just an R sound at the end. Teacher.\u00a0 Brother.\u00a0 Broth-er.\u00a0 Whisper, whisp-rr.\u00a0 Faster, fast-rr. Faster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Schwa-R endings are always unstressed syllables, so they\u2019re said quickly and simply.\u00a0 This means your lips might not round or flare at all.\u00a0 Brother, er, er, er. Brother.\u00a0 In these quick syllables, you can see a more relaxed lip position. Here, I&#8217;m comparing it with the beginning R in the word &#8216;right&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Now, you saw me there working with two students and you might wonder, how can I work with Rachel? I need help too!\u00a0 I teach a live class every month for the students in my Academy.\u00a0 I work with three to five students each time on a wide range of topics, and of course, even if you\u2019re not chosen to work live with me, you can come to the online class and ask questions that I can answer.\u00a0 Visit rachelsenglishacademy.com to learn more about signing up for the Academy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And now, if want to see the video How to Make the R sound, with up close, slow motion shots of the mouth, click here or in the description below.\u00a0 I\u2019ll also add the link to How to make the UR vowel in the video description.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">OK, that wraps up my Top 5 tips for the R Sound!\u00a0 Please let me know in the comments which of the 5 tips was the most important for you and how you\u2019ll be using that tip to improve the way you sound.\u00a0 If you hear a difference in the way you\u2019re sounding, please leave me a comment and describe it for me.\u00a0 That helps me as I teach students going forward!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I hope this helps you!\u00a0 Now work on that R, practice that R!\u00a0 That\u2019s it, and thanks so much for using Rachel\u2019s English.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a name=\"video\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Video:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-70188-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/07f1c47b71c75472a3cc-b7eea9689205a6672fd1aa00be922d89.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com\/625-Tips-for-R.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/07f1c47b71c75472a3cc-b7eea9689205a6672fd1aa00be922d89.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com\/625-Tips-for-R.mp4\">https:\/\/07f1c47b71c75472a3cc-b7eea9689205a6672fd1aa00be922d89.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com\/625-Tips-for-R.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this easy-to-use video you\u2019ll learn the 5 tips you need to master the American English \u201cR\u201d sound.\u00a0 YouTube blocked? 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