How do you learn to roll your tongue like to say perra?

Question

How to learn to roll my R's. Example perra. Please help me.

• FYI: Never call someone this because it has a negative secondary meaning. - jeezzle Oct 27, 2009

Answer 1

In general when speaking spanish your tongue placement should be different. Watch a native speaker and their tongue is usually directly behind their teeth while in english speakers it is more towards the roof of their mouth. Some of my friends said they were taught good diction by holding a pencil in their mouths while speaking.

Answer 2

Hey, as you can see this is something that gives many of us doubts/difficulties.

I've posted before on different threads, but to you now I will say,

Don't Give Up!!

I honestly thought I couldn't do it, having convinced myself while learning Arabic that I couldn't 'trill'; I could manage a single 'r' in the correct way but when I saw the double I would feel very fed-up. I also have a mild degree of tongue-tie, so there was my ready-made excuse!!

I recommend that you make sure you can do the single 'r' sound first, by listening and copying, and then......

Go somewhere where you won't be embarrassed by being overheard - I chose my car - and try as hard as you can! I found I needed (and still mostly need) to expel a lot more air to get that trill to begin, and mine doesn't last long compared to some awesome ones I've heard.

However, it is definitely there, even if I sometimes have to have more than one attempt at a word to get it right.