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I had heard it was genetic and went to verify that just now. I heard wrong. https://www.mcislanguages.com/mcis-blog/a-step-by-step-beginners-guide-to-the-alveolar-trill-learn-to-roll-your-rs/
Interesting!!
Your job is to help children overcome speech impediments. Whether it's using "W" for "R" or more serious speech issues, you have a difficult and important role in our education system. For English-speaking students learning Spanish, things like the trilled R and the "nya" sound (that squiggly thing over an N) the Spanish teacher just rolls her eyes and chalks it up to our linguistic incompetence. I have no idea how to correct that linguistic problem. Don't even get me started on the weird sounds Germans and Scandinavians make. Those sounds don't exist in our mouths, I am almost certain. Even the French have weird noises -- throwing the "ng" sound into the back of your nasal cavity is one. As with most of these types of impediments, people can understand what they are saying -- sometimes with difficulty and perhaps sometimes confusing one word for another. Fact is, this child's parents have a better chance of correcting that kind of problem through what we call "language immersion" at home than you do in an hour-long class at school.
True. Hoping to just help in any way I can. I do agree that immersion in the language is almost always the best solution.
I was told to try rolling r while biting a pencil. The idea was making it hard. Native Spanish speaker told me.
Wow I have never heard that but we will definitely be trying that. Thanks 😊