I've been trying to learn a foreign language for a while, but I still don't
know how to roll my R's. I've said many things like that before. However, I
eventually learned how to roll my R's; and I want to tell you how I did it
my name is Franklin, and this is First1000Hours.com. Don't give up on your
language learning marathon! You can make it through your first 1,000 hours!
When I started my language learning
marathon, I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to roll my R's because although
I started and stopped learning Spanish at different points, my most serious
attempt of learning Spanish started when I was 31. I was an adult; I didn't grow up
learning Spanish. I had no real ambition of learning Spanish previous to age 31.
And so I've looked at different videos on YouTube, and I've just observed that
people really believe that when you're a child you can mimic the language but
there's not as much confidence with adults actually being able to
pronounce things well. And so I was well past my childhood age, and I didn't know
how to roll my R's. I've gone on YouTube on several different occasions, and I've
looked at videos of people teaching others how to roll their R's. And I've
tried to follow the same method that they were teaching in the videos, and
every single time I failed. Now one of the most interesting videos that I would
encourage those who are still trying to roll their R's to look at is a youtube
video called "How to Roll Your R's Exercises that Work", and it's produced by
the Real Russian Club channel. So this person was showing how to use a q-tip to
roll your R's. I thought it was very interesting, and I
figured that I was going to actually pay fifteen dollars to go through her more
detailed video after I finished reading my first Spanish book, but then something
happened. One day I was in the bathroom at night, and I was just talking in
Spanish to myself, which I do from time to time, and I was saying something like
this [Spanish] Hello everyone. I really like the Spanish language.
It's a pleasure to speak with you in your language, in the Spanish language.
Really, it's my privilege to put time every day in this theme. The language is very beautiful, is very beautiful, is very
awesome to me. While I was speaking to myself in Spanish that night I
actually heard myself role my R's. And I was just amazed because I wasn't trying
to do that it just came out naturally, and that wasn't after I was watching
like a youtube video or something like that. I was just speaking, and I started
rolling my R's. I was just so excited about that experience. And so I hurried
up and tried to record myself rolling my R's because I didn't know how long that
was going to last I still didn't really know the technique of rolling my R's
that well, but I wanted to record the moment, and so I recorded myself on April
3rd of 2018, and I want you to hear the audio from that video recording. Hello
everybody I'm going to practice trilling, and I'm going to start with the word
pero that's p-e-r-r-o. In Spanish when you have a double R, you need to trill so
here we go. Perro, perro, perro. And now I'm just going
to try to just trill. Perro.
That is the most trilling I've basically done in my whole life. I just started
trilling a little bit today, tonight, and I'm really excited about
that. After 20 minutes of recording myself rolling my R's, I actually forgot
how to do it. And I had to continue trying to practice and figure out how to
arrange my mouth and my tongue so I could roll my R's. And so I spent the
next two days in my free time when I was driving or different times like that
learning how to roll my R's. And so I took another video of myself on April
5th of 2018, and I want you to hear the audio of that. [It's] been two days since I
started seriously trill, so I'm just gonna have a little bit of fun. I'm going
to say perro like I would normally say perro without the trill, and then I'm
going to say perro with the trill. I'm going to try to hold the trill as much
as I can so we'll see what happens. Perro, perro, perro, perro, perro, perro. Now
that's taking some time I've had to practice a lot, and I'm just thankful to
God that I'm learning more about trilling. I'm still going to be
practicing, and I'm looking forward to being able to trill even more naturally
later on. I'm going to play one last audio clip of me talking about rolling
my R's, and this was done on May 6 of 2018.
Hello everybody. About 2 or 3 weeks ago, I was watching a youtube video about I
believe reasons why someone should learn Spanish, and I believe the person who was
doing that was Russian. And she she used the word ruso (Russian) in her presentation,
but she trilled when she said ruso. And I wanted to copy that I wanted to
say that too because I had been familiar for the past 2 or 3 weeks previous to
that and saying perro with a trill. So I could say things like perro or
perro. I could hold it out and all that, and I thought it would be easy to trill
with having the R at the beginning of the word, so I tried to do it. And I
started doing stuff like this: ruso, ruso. I couldn't do it. I was wondering if I
can do perro, why can't I do ruso? But that's just the case I was like well I
guess I still I still have to learn more about trilling and rolling my R's. And I
did, but I just continued to read and listen in Spanish. And I just continued
to immerse myself in the language, and about two days ago
I was talking to myself in Spanish, and I realized just a minute I'm not only
trilling with the word perro, which I try to practice sometimes, but I was
able to trillat the beginning of the sentence [word], which
I don't think you really have to do in Spanish. You
really trill when you have a double R. I understand that, but I am practicing
being able to use my mouth to be able to roll my R's in different
situations that's just something I like to do sometimes now, and I was able to do
something like this ruso (Russian), ruso. So so I'm just gonna practice doing perro and then
ruso and alternate that about three times, and let's see what happens. Perro,
ruso, perro, ruso, perro, ruso. So it's different ways that I'm able to use my mouth now to be able
to make that trilling sound. And I've even practiced... I've used
the strong perro, but also I've tried to do the small trill or the soft trill
perro. So it's just really fun to be able to see how the Lord is helping me with
this Spanish journey as I accustom myself to listening to more and more
Spanish. And I really tried to make that part of my day. And a natural fruit of
being able to spend one hour, at least one hour a day in Spanish,
is my pronunciation is improving because I believe my mind has more frames of
reference to be able to mimic the language. I'm not going to say I sound
like a native speaker that would be that would be a joke especially to people
that know how I speak Spanish, but I'm learning and I'm growing and I'm better
today than I was yesterday so I just wanted to share that with you, and if you
don't know how to trill, don't worry about that too much. Just focus on
being familiar with the language and really listening to the language and
really spending time doing that. And over a process of time, which might
take some months maybe, but over a process of time if you're putting
an hour so most days and listening to Spanish, I believe that you will find
that your pronunciation is going to get better. I think the things sometimes we
try to do is we listed the Spanish for five minutes, and then we
try to sound like a native speaker and we might get discouraged because we
don't sound like a native speaker after spending five minutes with the language,
but I don't think that's a reasonable expectation. This is Franklin. I'll talk
with you later. Bye bye I meant to say at the end of that audio clip that it's
good to spend an hour both listening and reading things in whatever language
you're trying to learn. So for me, it is good for me to at least spend 30 minutes
reading and then maybe 30 minutes listening to something in Spanish,
and I will go in more detail about why that strategy is such a good strategy
for learning a language in future podcasts. One of the reasons why I wanted
to share with you my story of how I learned how to roll my R's is because I
think sometimes as language learners we become anxious about wanting to sound
more like the language that we're trying to learn. We
want to sound more Spanish, or we want to sound more Russian or German or whatever
language we're trying to learn, but my main point in sharing with you my story
is this: when a language ceases to be foreign, it will be much easier to mimic
the language. So if I am listening to Spanish, and it sounds foreign, then I
need to spend more time with Spanish. And so whatever language you're trying to
learn, it's the same thing. We have to spend that time with the language so
that our brains can adapt to the sounds of the language that we're trying to
learn. So the question is will you ever learn how to roll your R's? I didn't
think I was going to be able to do that. I just was committed to continue to
learn Spanish even if I would never learn how to roll my R's.
But the question that's more important than whether or not you will be able to
roll your R's or whether or not you will pronounce things better than how you are
doing right now is: have you spent your first 1,000 hours primarily reading
and listening to your target language? My name is Franklin, and this is
First1000hours.com. Don't give up on your language learning marathon! You can
make through your first 1,000 hours!
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