Trying to learn how to roll my r's feels like I'm trying to figure out how to pronounce a mystical word.

I've only spoken English my whole life. It doesn't help that I have a lisp which makes it even harder...

@Mr_NutterButter @beardalaxy You flow air through the top of your mouth and then apply pressure to the top of your mouth with your tongue. I cannot grasp how English natives can't trill.
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@Forestofenchantment @Mr_NutterButter I'm English native and I don't know how people can't do it either lol. I guess I just made a lot of sounds as a kid and figured it out.

@Forestofenchantment @Mr_NutterButter I have a friend who can't roll his Rs with his tongue but can do it with his throat???

@beardalaxy To be fair. The "th" sound is incredibly hard for a large majority of people to say because that sounds simply doesn't exist in a majority of languages.

That's why you particularly hear a large majority of people from Asian countries have an incredibly hard time pronouncing that sort of sound even more then most.

You can even see it to wear some native English speakers will slightly slur their th sound or kind of blended together when they're talking and it's the most common word people mess up when they're trying to pronounce a new word.

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