Italian Course Beginner Series Lesson 19: The R Video Lecture | Learn Italian Language: For Beginners and Travellers

hello my name is Claudio and welcome to
another Italian tutorial in particular
welcome to a rather non-conventional
video on how to pronounce the Italian
are or how to trill your tongue how to
roll your R's
as many people know in italian v our
sound is very different from the english
sound in fact BR sound in italian sounds
a little bit like and some people can't
do it huh as simple as that now if you
want to learn how to do it there are two
ways the way i've learned it and the way
every single native speaker across the
world has learned it and the way most
non-native speakers tend to learn it now
the first way is my favorite and i
recommend you choose this path it
involves repetition repetition and also
repetition basically what you do is you
listen to the r sound being pronounced
and you try and repeat you will fail and
you will try again and you will try
again and one day you'll succeed now it
may appear as a very ignorant way of
going about things well the fact is this
is the only way that has worked for
everybody who could physically make that
sound anyway what I recommend you do is
do both try and repeat listen and try
and repeat and also do some exercise
that can help you stimulate and activate
the right muscles in your mouth to make
your life easier so with this video I'm
going to try and help you regardless of
what method you choose so if you choose
to go with the first one so if you're on
YouTube now scroll all the way up until
you see the link of this page so it
should be something like HT t s P
whatever W youtube.com slash etc etc and
what you can do is you can plug in the
word repeat instead of u2
I'm sorry instead of tube so you would
end up with something like wwu repeat
comm slash and exactly the same link
then a new page should open up of a new
website that basically has a built-in
playback function that allows you to
repeat one video non-stop and also you
can set the limits and have the video
play only one single bit and at the end
of this video what I'm going to do is
I'm going to pronounce the R sound and
roll it for as long as I can so that if
you want you can play back and you can
practice practice and you know however
long it takes whatever it takes so one
minute five minutes ten minutes you just
hear it hear it hear it listen
tune in listen and practice try and
repeat and one day you'll succeed
if you choose the other path then there
are so many people on YouTube already
teaching you exercises so I'm not going
to come up with new ones because I don't
even know if they would work in fact I'm
really skeptical when it comes to
teaching the R sound to a non-native
speaker giving precise directions
because I think it's pretty hard so I
was curious and I watched a lot of
videos where native speakers or people
who have learned it teach other people
how to learn it and I don't think
there's any great video out there but
there's a few good ones now here you
have a selection of my favorites what I
think are the best videos on YouTube
right now all these links are in the
description if you need them the first
link is basically a video where a guy is
teaching you the R sound with a very
professional approach he is a vocalist
or a singer and he basically trains
people this video is particularly good
if you're not an English native speaker
this is because his English is very very
clean and easy to understand if you're
an English native speaker
I recommend you
watch the second one instead now the
second one was made by a Chinese lady I
think she is
she speaks Mandarin and her English is
brilliant to go through a lot of drills
and exercises to help you stimulate the
right muscles and I think she makes very
interesting points so I think this video
will really help anybody who is trying
to understand how to pronounce the R
sound in Italian the third link is a
video made by a girl named Rachel and
Rachel makes the point that your tongue
has to vibrate some people say that your
tongue has to touch the top of your
mouth or it has to be in a particular
position now the whole point of making
the R sound is that the tongue has to
vibrate okay and again I really
recommend you watch the second video
because you know she explains it in a
way that couldn't be explained better
the fourth one is an interesting video
interesting meaning almost useless but
interesting if you want to know about
the R sound now it's a it's a video made
by a linguist and he talks about
pronouncing the R sound in Italian and
Spanish from a linguists prospective so
it's nice to you know it's a bit of a it
gives you an overview and it says a lot
of interesting things and information
about the r and about the way it's
pronounced I don't know how useful it is
in terms of actually learning it but as
you can see you have a selection here of
very useful videos so I'm just going to
go ahead and pronounce the R sound now
and I'll see you in the next video good
luck
Wow that was tough