Can't roll your "R's"?! How do you surivive R-r-roll Up The R-r-rim season?
For me, rolling my R's came naturally. It can be learned with practice though.
Try taking deep breaths and sort of flipping the tip of your tongue to the roof of your mouth loosely so that your breath blows it back down again. That's how it should feel. Then work on holding the tip of your tongue there while keeping it relaxed so that it vibrates against your palate as you exhale.
I should've paid more attention in linguistics class so I could actually throw out terms like aveolar and palatal and sound like I know what I'm talking about here.
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