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Brief: Teaching a Spanish R
By Pam Marshalla
Q: Do you have any tips on how to help a student produce the Spanish R trill?
Two methods I have used-
- Start with a lingua-labial raspberry and then have the client pull the tongue in.
- Say the word “butter” with a clear D– “Budder”. Say it while making the tongue-tip linger on the palate longer.
- There also are YouTube videos about how to do this 🙂
I’m a trilingual SLP and I offer two YouTube videos that might be helpful. There’s an adult version of the video (http://youtu.be/gd-nefL-jyQ) and a child version (http://youtu.be/0J_Qg1AzTX8)
Ana Paula G. Mumy, MS, CCC-SLP