One thing that all of these youtube tutorials miss to note is that as you will practice, the R sound should become less harsh. But this video is the best I found about it.
Everything Blank i've just started really practicing it and it sounds so strange right now..glad to know that with a lot of practicing it'll get better
EverythingisEverything: Yes, you are right that, with practice, there's less need to exaggerate the harshness of the French R sound. The exaggeration is a way to learn and to develop muscle memory of the tongue placement that is so different than it is for the R sound in English.
This makes perfect sense. This means that French people can't talk with dry mouth which means they need to kiss every few minutes which makes French a romantic language, as is often called. Now I don't wonder why.
Excellent teaching technique! I've also found this helpful: Say buh, duh, guh, and notice how how the position of your tongue moves back a step between duh and guh. Notice too how you expel your breath to pronounce guh. Now let the back of your tongue take one more step back from guh and expel your breath through that rearmost spot. Voilà! Âne the best place to practice is in front of the bathroom mirror while you're brushing your teeth. Before long, you'll be sounding like Edith Piaf singing, "Non, rien de rien, non je ne regrette rien"!
Am I the only one who can't make it? The French R accent is just really difficult for me. It went well until making the "ah-ha" sound, but I couldn't go on from where you have to open your mouth horizontally....
I don’t think I make my G sound normally... I use like, the middle of my tongue against the roof of my mouth near where the soft and hard palate join. When I practice the “ee-gee” one I sound like a cat hissing 😂
Bonjour, I am french and I can tell you that you have several way to pronounce the R, it can be soft like Paris or more gutural after a d or a p : adresse, prendre or even very discret nearly not pronoucable like at the end of a name : amour, toujours, terre... Good luck les amis...
By far the best explanation of this that I've seen anywhere. One question, though. I can get the sound out but not without pushing a good amount of air going through my throat. I almost have to feel like I'm coughing to get enough air to make the correct sound. Should I be pushing that hard or should I be able to get the sound with the air support comparable to normal speech?
I believe that those are your muscles learning to produce the new sound. Once they get trained, it will be second nature and less air and pressure will occur.
This is the best explication that I've heard! Thank you! :D I don't have it 100% yet, but on my goodness this is the best one I've seen so far. TY :D :D :D
At first i thought it was kind of hilarious video because of their face when they made a sound, but in a minute i could see this is the perfect video that i was looking for..! Sorry that I misunderstood!
I find that I can do this pretty fine when it's followed by a vowel, but in words where it's followed by a consonant it often seems to become impossible because it just can't flow. And what makes it more confusing is when I listen to native speakers and it sounds more like a rolled spanish r in those cases, which is baffling. In French, do you pronounce the r differently when it's followed by a consonant?
Seems there are many varieties of French R. Some speakers even use "Spanish" rolling R (alveolar trill) though there is also uvular trill which sounds somewhat similar. I am listening to Audiobook, and I can swear the narrator manages to say R 10 different ways for different characters.
Been trying this for a long time and today I found out that there are levels of difficulty: I can say the sound /r/ combined with vowel "a" better than the other vowels. This is so hard.
Lovely! I think I kind of have a handle on it now, but I'm still self conscious about how guttural it sounds instead of trill-like! will have to practice more XD
I wonder about that too but I think you should not. I can make similar sound by gargling with saliva but it is bit different. I think the goal is to trill uvula or tongue against it I am not sure.
C'est incroyable, toutes les vidéos que font les américains sur la prononciation du "r" français indiquent de mettre la langue vers le bas collé au dents, or, nous les Français ne faisons pas du tout comme ça, en fait nous laissons la langue là où elle se trouve (au pire elle ne sert à rien) puis nous envoyons de l'air dans notre gorge tout en bloquant cet arrivée d'air soudaine, ça peut être très dur pour certains mais c'est comme cela que nous faisons. Amicalement.
Tout a fait d'accord. Ici, le "r" qu'elle lui apprend ressemble plutôt à celui qu'on fait en avec l'accent franc-comtois (chez moi, quoi!) et moins au "r" d'un français plus standard (comme celui pratiqué en télé, radio, etc). Les anglophones ont très souvent du mal avec nos "r" et nos "u".
All of these tutorials don’t seem to agree. Some say it is more exaggerated sounding and others say it is not. I’m wondering just which is THE correct pronunciation?
Okay I genuinely cannot get that “scraping sound.” It comes out as just air or a flat sound, no rolling/gargling noise. I’ve been trying for a while but no luck. Tips?
What happened with "sans effort", my back or base of the tongue moves slightly back and up. It doesn't touch the front teeth it rather pushes slightly against the gums. You can recreate it by pushing your tongue with pencil in and down. My Polish teacher in high school done it few times 50 years ago and it works
StagArmslower: I think what your Polish teacher proposed would be effective in that the main difficulty for speakers of English is not lifting the tongue tip as is done for the R sound in English. A possible problem arises though in trying to speak with a pencil holding your tongue down. ;) (Just kidding!)
@@heleneneu2748 Watch this vid th-cam.com/video/HpS4c9fjl80/w-d-xo.html if you imagine that the pencil is pushing on the front of the lady's bend fingers that's what pencil was doing and after choking for a while we got it how to position our tongs. It really works
For some reason I have so much more trouble with the "uru" part than anything else. My mouth/throat just won't say the sound easily when it is before after the "u"
so is it literally just a 'k' sound in the throat? im learnin french for class and i know that when my teacher speaks, it's like a weird 'kghgkjhkh' sound. periodically i'd use it but it feels wrong, cause i always think that the french 'r' is somehow gonna have a very very subtle rolling 'r' sound near the middle of the mouth. so if I were to say 'français', i just say something like 'fkhanseh', and not 'fhrkhanseh'? cause if so, i guess it's pretty easy for me cause my family scoffs like this
@@kasakro9829 There are, in fact, changes in the way the R sounds depending on the sounds that precede and follow it. For example, it is harshest when it has a voiceless consonant before or after it ([p, t, k, f] are examples of voiceless consonants), as in près, très, crois, français. It becomes voiced after voiced consonants ([b, d, g, v] are examples of voiced consonants, as in bras, drapeau, gris, vrai. (Try contrasting "cri - gris, frais - vrai to feel the difference between voiceless and voiced consonants.) And it is the softest, least harsh between vowel sounds, as in Paris, héros, américain, oral.
I was so into it and when she tried it with the E and I was staring at the lady in blue, when she laughed I laughed too and I felt stupid!! LOL But whatever still practising
@@retropaganda8442what are you on about? I used those timestamps so I could watch certain parts of the video again and again without having to watch the entire video. Smh
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OMG this is the most EFFECTIVE explanation video I have ever seen. Thank you so much!!
*starts crying in french*
@Pop Punk Dot Com well good for you then, guess you can't say r lol
What !????!?
One thing that all of these youtube tutorials miss to note is that as you will practice, the R sound should become less harsh. But this video is the best I found about it.
Everything Blank i've just started really practicing it and it sounds so strange right now..glad to know that with a lot of practicing it'll get better
Good luck :) also use videos in French to train your ear, listen closely and it'll probably help make it a little easier.
EverythingisEverything: Yes, you are right that, with practice, there's less need to exaggerate the harshness of the French R sound. The exaggeration is a way to learn and to develop muscle memory of the tongue placement that is so different than it is for the R sound in English.
This makes my mouth dry as hell lmao.
it is called the dry 'r'
IM SAYING
You still alive?
This makes perfect sense. This means that French people can't talk with dry mouth which means they need to kiss every few minutes which makes French a romantic language, as is often called. Now I don't wonder why.
@@darksideisherewhat 🤨
I'm Japanese. French pronunciation "R" is too difficult...
I practice to speak watching this video.
Thank you very much!!
The Japanese R is also hard to pronounce, coming from an English speaker!
It is difficult because english speakers have invented à french r. 6 years lasers i hope you know that this german rrrr doesn't exist in french
Excellent teaching technique! I've also found this helpful: Say buh, duh, guh, and notice how how the position of your tongue moves back a step between duh and guh. Notice too how you expel your breath to pronounce guh. Now let the back of your tongue take one more step back from guh and expel your breath through that rearmost spot. Voilà!
Âne the best place to practice is in front of the bathroom mirror while you're brushing your teeth. Before long, you'll be sounding like Edith Piaf singing, "Non, rien de rien, non je ne regrette rien"!
THANK YOU ❤
Even now, 9 years later, this is STILL helpful, especially for beginners. Thank u so much!
Am I the only one who can't make it? The French R accent is just really difficult for me. It went well until making the "ah-ha" sound, but I couldn't go on from where you have to open your mouth horizontally....
Jihyeon Min do you still have your uvula?
The sound comes a little from clearing your throat.
I don’t think I make my G sound normally... I use like, the middle of my tongue against the roof of my mouth near where the soft and hard palate join. When I practice the “ee-gee” one I sound like a cat hissing 😂
@@peggyt5409 saaammme 😂😂😂
Meanwhile, French high school kids trying to say [r] are trying *not* to pronounce the [R] sound
I took two years of french, and this is the first time that this has been demonstrated to me in an understandable way.
Helpful in many ways
I always believed if you want to know the pronunciation you have to really listen and SEE it how the sound is pronounced.
I've said e and r so many times I'm starting to question it's existence. LMAO.
Absolutely AMAZING tutorial! Easy instructions for easy learning. By far the best tutorial I’ve seen so far.
I can't even make the first 'ah-gah' sound right..... French is tricky
Superb way of learning saying R in French. Très bien. Merci.
Merci beaucoup :) This is one of the most effective methods I've learnt so far. I'll practice daily :)
Bonjour, I am french and I can tell you that you have several way to
pronounce the R, it can be soft like Paris or more gutural after a d or a
p : adresse, prendre or even very discret nearly not pronoucable like
at the end of a name : amour, toujours, terre... Good luck les amis...
mark
By far the best explanation of this that I've seen anywhere. One question, though. I can get the sound out but not without pushing a good amount of air going through my throat. I almost have to feel like I'm coughing to get enough air to make the correct sound. Should I be pushing that hard or should I be able to get the sound with the air support comparable to normal speech?
I believe that those are your muscles learning to produce the new sound. Once they get trained, it will be second nature and less air and pressure will occur.
Justin King same problem here :/
Michele Sheru me too!!
Who invented this shit sound i wonder.
+thucydides Neo Millions of people over thousands of years.
That's a long history of deepthroating.
Satan.
DFKM!!! HAHAHAHAHA RANDOM
BEST EXPLANATION EVER! Thank you so much
Best instructional video on how to pronounce the French R!Thank you!
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Best videos I've found for pronunciation! Thanks for posting!
This is the best explication that I've heard! Thank you! :D
I don't have it 100% yet, but on my goodness this is the best one I've seen so far. TY :D :D :D
At first i thought it was kind of hilarious video because of their face when they made a sound, but in a minute i could see this is the perfect video that i was looking for..! Sorry that I misunderstood!
I find that I can do this pretty fine when it's followed by a vowel, but in words where it's followed by a consonant it often seems to become impossible because it just can't flow. And what makes it more confusing is when I listen to native speakers and it sounds more like a rolled spanish r in those cases, which is baffling. In French, do you pronounce the r differently when it's followed by a consonant?
Seems there are many varieties of French R. Some speakers even use "Spanish" rolling R (alveolar trill) though there is also uvular trill which sounds somewhat similar. I am listening to Audiobook, and I can swear the narrator manages to say R 10 different ways for different characters.
Glad that I am an arabic speaker who already has this letter in his alphabet
Oh you are lucky 😢
Native French speakers, is it normal for your tonsils to fall out while trying this?
Been trying this for a long time and today I found out that there are levels of difficulty: I can say the sound /r/ combined with vowel "a" better than the other vowels. This is so hard.
It feels like talking in 'Sans Serif' font.
Lovely! I think I kind of have a handle on it now, but I'm still self conscious about how guttural it sounds instead of trill-like! will have to practice more XD
This was the only way I learnt the French R. All other youtube videos are not very helpful.
This is what I am looking for it, excellent explanation
Thank you so much.
WOW!!! What a great lesson. I really saw improvement. Do you have more lessons on the R with words?
This video has CHANGED MY LIFE 😮
So yeah, I'm practically French now
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!!
it's so hard!!
this video is very clear for me. thank you.
This really helped a lot
Excellent video. Thanks, so much.
Do you play with saliva when making the gargling R sound?
I wonder about that too but I think you should not. I can make similar sound by gargling with saliva but it is bit different. I think the goal is to trill uvula or tongue against it I am not sure.
C'est incroyable, toutes les vidéos que font les américains sur la prononciation du "r" français indiquent de mettre la langue vers le bas collé au dents, or, nous les Français ne faisons pas du tout comme ça, en fait nous laissons la langue là où elle se trouve (au pire elle ne sert à rien) puis nous envoyons de l'air dans notre gorge tout en bloquant cet arrivée d'air soudaine, ça peut être très dur pour certains mais c'est comme cela que nous faisons.
Amicalement.
Tout a fait d'accord.
Ici, le "r" qu'elle lui apprend ressemble plutôt à celui qu'on fait en avec l'accent franc-comtois
(chez moi, quoi!) et moins au "r" d'un français plus standard (comme celui pratiqué en télé, radio, etc).
Les anglophones ont très souvent du mal avec nos "r" et nos "u".
Je pense qu'elle demande à la "victime" de caler sa langue justement pour être sûr qu'elle n'en fera rien ;p
All of these tutorials don’t seem to agree. Some say it is more exaggerated sounding and others say it is not. I’m wondering just which is THE correct pronunciation?
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merci;c'est un bon travail . j'aime ce que vous faites
Merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo... La lettre R est trop difficile 😶😐 j'ai besoin d'aide 😂😂😂😂
Thanks this is the only video that helped me
I can only say it with the raspy voice. Idk how French people do it but without the scratchy throat noise.
I know, it keeps coming out as raspy for me, too
This solved my crisis. Merci beaucoup
Can you please tell me the English term for the French pronunciation of the letter R ? Thank you.
Thanks, this helps with my R. Merci beaucoup!
hey thanks. This really improved my pronunciation.
hehehehe... enjoy a nice random notification from a video you dont remember AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Excellent video
This is so helpful. Thank you!
French wasnt always with a gutural r about 100 years agor they spoke with a thrilled r
WOW this was very helpful! Thanks!
Quite helpful. Merci!
I used super glue so the only thing I can pronounce now is the French r.
Lol 😂😂🤣😂
Thanks so much. it helps a lot
The best video! Now ill just keep practice
Merci! Je parle un peu français :) J'apprends, cela a été très utile.
Really helpful.
But it still sounds funny
Good stuff here.
Thank you.
r = air and not re but in the same time i think it's a good tech to be able to pronunce the"r" in french
I super glued my tongue to my teeth, so what’s the next step?
Say G;) And then aga... and then I could not quite follow´but my throat hurts.
ahahahahah MDR C'est trop rigolo pour moi comme un Coreen. Mes pauvres Americans!
Thank you =) It's helping a lot =)
Practice your french lady!
Oh my god, that's awesome, most useful one!!!!
Okay I genuinely cannot get that “scraping sound.” It comes out as just air or a flat sound, no rolling/gargling noise. I’ve been trying for a while but no luck. Tips?
What happened with "sans effort", my back or base of the tongue moves slightly back and up. It doesn't touch the front teeth it rather pushes slightly against the gums. You can recreate it by pushing your tongue with pencil in and down. My Polish teacher in high school done it few times 50 years ago and it works
StagArmslower: I think what your Polish teacher proposed would be effective in that the main difficulty for speakers of English is not lifting the tongue tip as is done for the R sound in English. A possible problem arises though in trying to speak with a pencil holding your tongue down. ;) (Just kidding!)
@@heleneneu2748 Watch this vid th-cam.com/video/HpS4c9fjl80/w-d-xo.html if you imagine that the pencil is pushing on the front of the lady's bend fingers that's what pencil was doing and after choking for a while we got it how to position our tongs. It really works
So helpful!
OK...don.t look at this vidéo. Im french and i don't know where this rrrrrrrrrrr is coming from. May be germany?
For some reason I have so much more trouble with the "uru" part than anything else. My mouth/throat just won't say the sound easily when it is before after the "u"
so is it literally just a 'k' sound in the throat? im learnin french for class and i know that when my teacher speaks, it's like a weird 'kghgkjhkh' sound. periodically i'd use it but it feels wrong, cause i always think that the french 'r' is somehow gonna have a very very subtle rolling 'r' sound near the middle of the mouth.
so if I were to say 'français', i just say something like 'fkhanseh', and not 'fhrkhanseh'? cause if so, i guess it's pretty easy for me cause my family scoffs like this
KGHGKG BUT THERE are words like 'grillent' where according to google translate, you can hear an 'r' sound? like 'gris' with a very rolled 'r'
@@kasakro9829 There are, in fact, changes in the way the R sounds depending on the sounds that precede and follow it. For example, it is harshest when it has a voiceless consonant before or after it ([p, t, k, f] are examples of voiceless consonants), as in près, très, crois, français. It becomes voiced after voiced consonants ([b, d, g, v] are examples of voiced consonants, as in bras, drapeau, gris, vrai. (Try contrasting "cri - gris, frais - vrai to feel the difference between voiceless and voiced consonants.) And it is the softest, least harsh between vowel sounds, as in Paris, héros, américain, oral.
th-cam.com/video/GD1BUwC_0yk/w-d-xo.html
You may watch this video.
I hope it helps :)
Best teacher ever.
0:28 She said said “the American R” not the English R💀💀💀💀💀
Very good :)
Thank you
I was so into it and when she tried it with the E and I was staring at the lady in blue, when she laughed I laughed too and I felt stupid!! LOL But whatever still practising
best of best for R sound in French
Excelente!
practice starts @1:30 and @3:29
Watch it at 1.5x speed if you're such in a hurry to learn a language.
@@retropaganda8442what are you on about? I used those timestamps so I could watch certain parts of the video again and again without having to watch the entire video. Smh
@@dsfsfsfsfs grrrreat ;p
Best video ever!!
Amazing
Is it basically the Arabic "kha"?
no, it's "ghayn" 3'
super, merci
IT WORKED!!!!!
100% Abraw H. Nothing else comes close to this video.
Merci.
This helps, Thanks.
Very helpful. Merci! :)
Aha moment
Sounds similar to the Dutch/Afrikaans “g”. Can anyone confirm if they’re the same?
I still can't make the R sound. My throat is hurt.
_Sorry for my poor language._
your name is Indonesian just say arabic ghain and there you go
I think it is like the urdu/arabic letter غ . Anyone ?
Fun fun
Sacre shit... this works!
i look stupid but im learning!
this is my headache
My throat hurts is all hell after this
The ONLY thing that worked omg.
1:57 tried doing this and my gag reflex acted up
I love ya
I cant force my tongue to stay on the inside of my teeth what do i do