I remember a Spanish friend back in college complaining to me about the English, and especially American, r: “How do you make the sound when your tongue doesn’t touch anything? It just hangs out in space!”
Mandarin has a version of this r, too, right…? For example in èr, the word for two.
This was wildly informative!
I remember a Spanish friend back in college complaining to me about the English, and especially American, r: “How do you make the sound when your tongue doesn’t touch anything? It just hangs out in space!”
Mandarin has a version of this r, too, right…? For example in èr, the word for two.