[HPFGU-OTChatter] Rolling Rs

Mrs Snape (Dinah) mrs_snape at yahoo.de
Wed May 9 08:48:36 UTC 2001


> > who took 3+ years to get the French "r" right
> I started learning French over twenty years ago - I speak it fluently -
> but I still can't roll my R sounds.
> I can do the hard German CH sound very easily.
> Michelle

I'm from a part of Germany where we are infamous for our "hard" rrr. I
couldn't get rid of it and always sounded compltetely ridiculous when
talking French. Grrrr... It was described as "cute". Oh, thanks :-(

Dinah (try saying "Florence" - and all our schoolbook characters had such
helpful names - when you can't get the "r" right *sigh*)


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