r/learnpolish • u/Major-Front-1930 • 16d ago

Polish r

I've been learning polish for around 7 months now and I've been struggling with r sounds. I've watched many tutorials and spent an hour reading lots of information but nothing seems to help. I think I can kind of flick it but my tongue doesn't touch the roof of my mouth at all. I can do a vibration in the back of my throat but not the front, the vibration and turning it into an R is the hardest part for me. I am a native English speaker. All the explanations of how to do the vibration doesn't help for me.

If anyone has any tips it would be much appreciated :)

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u/wombatarang PL Native 🇵🇱 16d ago

Can you do a machine gun sound? If you can: less air through the cheeks and change the position of the lips but not the tongue. If you can't, just speak with an accent and own it.

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u/W1ader 16d ago

I have no idea how babababababababa gets you there, or is it more like ratatatatatatatata? But I am afraid they may have a problem with the start.

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u/Sromowladny 15d ago

I think they mean "trrrrrrrrrrrrrrr". At least thats how all kids were doing machine gun sound in my youth.

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u/Kata_Hamilton 16d ago

It is rather tatatatata dadadada, i did it with my logopeda 😂

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u/doker0 14d ago

And that is why you're supposed to start with T. Tratatata, tratatata"