XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: rundtosset@lundhansen.dk   
      
   Aidan Kehoe wrote:   
      
   > It took me, I think, a year, certainly many months, to get the alveolar trill   
   > right. What worked for me was attempting to make a [h] at the same time as my   
   > normal /r/ sound (while going on walks and in other contexts where no-one was   
   > listening); this lowered the back of the tongue, which makes the anterior end   
   > of the tongue more likely to trill, and eventually I could pronounce pero and   
   > perro distinctly in Spanish without problems.   
      
   I have a problem with that. I have to produce a hurricane to get my   
   tongue to vibrate. My daughter can do it with as little air as she   
   likes.   
      
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   Bertel   
   Kolt, Denmark   
      
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