It's been 5 years since I've tried to learn how to trill. Twice a year I queue up a ton of these videos and it feels like I'm entering a mid-life crisis each time!

I literally wanna cry

I was with you til step 4...

I have probably watched 20+ videos on how to roll your Rs. This is the first one that went through enough steps that I can now do it. Very sincerely, thank you for posting this

how do I move and relax my tongue at the same time?

I'm actually fairly confident by this point, you either can or you can't and people saying "everyone can do it" is just that positive/feel-good encouragement lol.

I can’t even make the closed tongue trill

Thank you! I couldn’t figure out how to get passed step 4 but I laughed so hard trying to make it happen.

Tip: For those of you stuck at the closed tongue trill, try it when lying down. Gravity seems to work wonders

I've been following so many tutorials and still can't do anything that sounds like a rolled r and now it just make me cry every time

I've heard lying on your back and drinking a shot or two of vodka might help because it relaxes your tongue. I've been doing that for 2 weeks now and I'm exercising a lot more since

I have no idea how to do step 4. My tongue just won’t vibrate

Easy until step 4, 7:55, then nothing ;'(

If "closed-tongue trill" is supposed to be easy, then I'm pathethic. I cannot produce the vibration while closing the shh sound, I just cannot make the tongue less tense even while drunk. i generally do stuff either with muscles tensed significantly or not do anything at all with nothing in between

Anyone else get dizzy from breathing out so long practicing? Still trying

I sound like im giving birth to an alien baby!

I still can’t even do step 4 but I did find something that helped me start to get my tongue to almost do it. I have a tooth growing in at the moment and all the air was just escaping through the gap. I tried filling the gap with the wax they give you for braces and I could sort of vibrate my tongue, not quite trilling but a huge improvement. Update (next day): I can do step 4 now. Being able to feel how it feels to flow the air properly helped a lot and I can now do it without the wax.

Thanks for this. I never have been able to successfully roll my R's, and I assumed I wouldn't be able to. My tongue is less nimble than most people's tongues - I had surgery as a baby to remove skin from below my tongue so that I could use it as much as I can, and while I can make pretty much any sound my tongue is a bit more limited in its range of motion. Yet this lesson does seem to help - I can't really roll my R's properly yet, but I'm doing better just after a little bit of practice. I'll try practicing it a few more times on different days and see how it goes. I don't particularly mind if I can roll my R's in terms of learning languages such as Spanish, but I do want to have the technique available for speech in general. I have a very deep voice that others have said is quite charismatic, but I realized lately that I don't really take full advantage of it - so even exercises like this I feel could be useful to me.

I am pretty sure this closed tongue trill is just a uvular trill in which the vibration of the tonge against the alveolar ridge or palate is misinterpreted as the origin of the sound, when it is merely a side effect of the uvular trill. That's why there is clear change in sound when you switch into the alveolar sound. The involved aerodynamics are completely different.

Wow for some reason I could do it after watching this video! Exercises 4 and 5 didn't work for me but I can pronounce the vowels and stuff! Still can't say it in words but I'm getting there! Thanks so much 💞 Now all there is left to do is practice!

Thank you, very much (dziękuję bardzo). I found this video when I was searching how to trill the Polish letter R. Following your exercises I have managed to get my tongue to trill and even produce some sounds that were approximately, but not exactly like yours. I just need lots of practice now!

8:15 and i can only hiss :(

Sadly a trill sound doesn't occur if you just move your tongue towards roof of your mouth. It just makes a silent hiss sound.

what the heck i couldnt do step 4 so i just skipped it and somehow learned to roll my rs lmao i guess something just clicked after all these years

This video got me trilling in less than 24 hours - thank you so much!!! I appreciate you so much:)

I am a Chinese and I think I kind of get it after a few days practice. Thank you. To add on, for Cantonese native speaker, I think another beginning trick to get the tongue vibrating is to flow the air like spitting from the throat. This may let thr tongue relax. The spitting motion will slowly fade out when you are more confident.

im a russian speaker, its my first language, but ive never rolled my Rs and it makes me really self consious and is the reason i dont speak around my parents' friends

very complete and a little more practice and I will have it down pat - thank you!

This is a great guide but I still can't trill my r's 😔. Does it matter about the frequency of your breathing for the action to work?

Thank you for this video, it’s by far the best I’ve seen.

When doing the closed mouth trill, where is your tongue supposed to touch? It says roof of your mouth. But the pictures looks like the alveolar ridge. Tongue placement is huge & I'm confused

OMG I FREAKING DID IT! TYSM! I’VE BEEN TRYING TO DO THIS AND I DID IT ON THE FIRST TRY WHEN I WATCHED THIS VIDEO

I'm trying, but this just makes me laugh everytime

How do I get from uvular trill to this? I keep doing a uvular trill. My native language is English btw

This was the video!!! Surprisingly though I actually got my tongue to vibrate while doing the lip trill. Hopefully this helps someone else but I had my tongue in the position for the aveolar trill on my ridge and trilled my lips. This caused me to feel my tongue vibrate and I was able to keep my tongue vibrating after leaving my lips open. That’s how it finally clicked for me how to do the trill. Thank you so much for this video!

this actually helped a lot. Still not quite there with voice, but at least I can get it vibrating now. The only video that helped, so thanks!

I have no idea how to relax my tongue and I think that`s the problem

well... I can whistle now

This video taught me how to whistle

OK so I can trill now. It's not a perfect native speaker trill, but my tongue tip is vibrating and I'm doing an Rrrrr most of the time I try. Honestly, it wasn't just one video that helped. There's another one of a young woman doing a "Ha-Rarrrr" technique that helped a lot too, but watching the others is useful as well. It did not just *click*. I have a narrow palate so that didn't help. A lot of times I felt I had it and then had trouble again. I practiced for a long time until I learned by feel how to make the air flow just right to get tongue tip to trill, then to add sound. I'm working on AH-rrrr now!

i need to try to do this some other time when i’m not worried about waking up my family 😂

This is definitely the best tutorial ever.

OMG ALMOST DID IT FOR A SEC

what i did was a mix of whats presented in this video. after the step at 07:55 i struggled to get anything to resemble a trill. what i did instead was hum while breathing out, and sliding my tongue up and down searching for a sweet spot. it seems to be getting me close to a trill. i can get distinct trills, but its not quite there yet.

My epiphany came at 20 and then again in slo-mo at 41 seconds. And it's not about the tongue and the alveolar ridge at all. Any dummy can put the tip of their tongue there. No - for me it was all about the placement of the back of the tongue. Have a look at 41 secs and you'll see how the back of the tongue lifts. This has the effect of directing the air flow across the tongue. As soon as I did this I was purring like a cat. I was trilling!!

I can do closer tongue trill I am surprised to feel my tongue can actually vibrate! Trying hard to make it final step! If I can do it, I will make a video to thank supercoco!

I don't know how it happened but I did it finally, you made it magically work. Thanks a bunch❤😅

This actually worked for me.

My closed tongue trill sound like the dentist saliva sucky thing :( ... Edit: anyone who managed to do it, How long did it take for you to get it? (closed tongue AND alveolar)

Despite what these tutorials claim, not everyone can roll their r’s. If your tongue is thick, you will not be able to do it.

clearly the only thing most people consistently struggle with is relaxing the tongue, when will a tutorial explain *that* and not the same mouth placement and airflow explanations we've all heard before lmao

Wow. It's 2 days that I am searching an animation of the tongue while saying RRRR. After 2 days and 10s of videos and tutorial, here I am. Whewww.

I couldn’t grill my r’s even if my life depended on it

I can get the back of my tongue to trill but not the front. Having trouble figuring out what is meant by the "blade" of the tongue. I also keep looking up alveolar ridge and it says that's basically the gums or the part of your mouth that supports/holds your teeth in place? Wish I could find better pictures and descriptions of these things but google is letting me down.

Great video!

There HAS to be an easier way. Like a cue or something.

7:58 my tongue just doesn't do that 💀

Finally this is the first video that got me this far

Could this be achieved when you have top and bottom full dental implant bridges? Air seems to be escaping through it when trying the tongue trill.

Very helpful!

the 'SHH' step leading into step 4 is really not the best way to go about this - try using the tongue shape for the hard 't' in Trouble instead of shh for those struggling

This video left me more broken than Monday.

Finally got it.

this has me soundin like i’m having a seizure 😩

Kind i cant get though step4

with lip trill generally as soon as I add voice it stops.

Thanks, now I can whistle with my tongue.

I have an overbite and I think it might be causing me trouble with tongue placement. Any advice?

Good job

It worked!

I'm actually cursed, I can't do it. When I trill its like I'm doing the closed mouth trill but with my mouth open. It's just not right.

Watched the video and attempted for days without success. I gave my husband a quick 20 second overview and he did it immediately. Dammit.

I actually learned to do an unvoiced trill by this video, but I’m stuck there and can’t not get an voiced trill.

Ok, now how do those of us with fat wide tongues do this? I'm learning old norse, so I need this for r's.

worked!

Even though I can do the closed tongue trill, I am just stuck on the Alveolar mouth trill, I can not for the life of me figure out how I can only have the tip of my tongue on the alveolar ridgge without sacrificing airflow that makes it bounce? How is the tongue relaxed if you are using tongue muscles to lift the tip?

i am 28 year old , i am learning roll R now ,this video help me a lot thanks

The Polish ŚR combination is by far the most difficult R sound.

Are there any tips to do it with voice? I think that's where I've got stuck

I truly believe it's not possible for everyone. I've grown in a Puerto Rican family, I know a bit of Spanish, but I physically cannot get the rolled R and I've been trying for a decade now. Closed mouth I can get some sort of vibration in the tongue going, but it doesn't sound anywhere near the one in the video. As soon as I open my mouth, no more tongue vibration, my throat tries to take over the vibration. I'm trying to get the word "perro" or "carro" but I can't do the "ro" shape while keeping my tongue up top, it automatically lays down and curls. I'm great at saying it with a ovular trill though.

Omg i think i just did it for a sec then cant but at least i can ik what if feels like cuz i tried it for A SEC IT ONLY WORK FOR A SEC THEN I CANT DO IT SO LIKE I THINK I NEED MORE PRACTICE AND PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT AND TYSM FOR THIS VID IT REALLY HELPS

I can't even do the closed mouth trill, this is beyond frustrating. I've been trying for so long

This is the only video that helped me do the trill. The only problem is whenever I do it, I make too much of a -th and -ss sound and it covers up the rr sound. I'm not sure how to fix it.

Does the part of your mouth where you gargle do anything?

i cant do the closed tongue trill. Any tips

Fuck... I am actually doing a rrrrr... Damn... Why didn't find you before?? Thank you ♥️♥️

I'm not sure if it's because of my overbite, but I can't even do the tongue trill from saying "shhh".

Exercise 2 days there are 6 letters where to tongue touches the roof (alveolar bridge) but I have 8. Curious what letters I’m saying different. I gave D G H J L N T W. Most my tongue touches my upper teeth. 2:39 For R I press the back sides of my tongue up or down and curl the tip of my tongue up. ~ like a tilde. It feels like having the back of my tongue down is better eg I’m able to roll my Rs longer and it feels impossible to roll my Rs with the back of my tongue up.

every once in a while i forgot how to roll my r's and have a panic attack while i scour the internet for tutorials

I can tell he loves eating Mc Donald’s from the shape of his moustache in the thumbnail

Just keep practicing, I thought I could never do it, after a while of doing it, you'll eventually just do it on your own, and a little warning it May or may not sound weird, so try and clean it up a bit and your good

Alhamdulillah, my feet are starting to get used to the prayers now 😂🙌🏾

goddamn it i can do the trill thingy with sound now but i can't do it after a vowel yet. So close I think I'll have it within a few days

I just watched a guy make the motor noise for 5 minutes wtf

I have laughed a great deal, but I still can't get past the closed mouth trill, either sitting or standing.

could really not make my tip of the tounge vibrate. been trying to do this since 2014.

How do you voice your trill?

Does it come from the back of your throat cause I might have it but idl

I still can’t roll my r ❤I need to start practicing 🎉❤

I feel like I’m just making machine gun sounds halfway through the word 😂