Alveolar Trill (Rolling R) tutorial in Cantonese (to be English subtitled soon)
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- Published: 30 Dec 2007
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- Author: iceles409
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Below is a brief translation done by a user MrPangutube, I hope this helps the English speakers. part 1 Introduction explains along the lines that this lesson is about the alveolar trill and the sound from the alveolar ridge doesn't exist for people who speak cantonese or english and so is difficult for the people of Hong Kong [who are mostly bilingual - cantonese\english] part 2 Within the diagram of the head (Fig 1), look at the alveolar ridge (presenter underlines in red). Where is it exactly? it is the bit at the top of the mouth which sticks out and where there is a little bit of a hard area and this is called the alveolar ridge. This is where the sound is produced from. How do you produce this sound then? I originally didn't know how to produce this sound. It is only when I was learning Italian which has this sound that I learnt how to do this. part 3 The sound that you produce when you snore is produced from the back of your mouth (presenter highlights in yellow) - ie produced from the yellow section and has this kind of sound (presenter gives 2 example sounds - both are ok) so it has a snoring sound. part 4 The second thing that you have to do. The tongue - where is the correct place to put it? (diagram 2 appears). When you pronounce the english "t" and "d" - the consonants, the position of the tongue is very similar. put the tip of your tongue on the alveolar ridge (presenter circles this position) part 5 There should be a gap between the tongue and the top <b>...</b>
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