5:00 ah the inevitable moment in seemingly every trilled R video where you've been correctly doing everything they ask until finally they're like, "and then you go rrrrrrrrr" and I just go "pfftththdhdhdhththth" 😑

Every trilled R tutorial: Step 1: Place you tongue like so Step 2: Trill your R's

EDIT: One day, a few weeks ago, I randomly got it. And I'm honestly a bit frustrated about it because I have no idea what I did differently, if I even did in the first place. I had hoped that if the time ever came where I did it, I'd be able to give some tips to people who were also struggling to help them figure it out too. My problem was that I would have my tongue in the right spot, but the air would either push my tongue out of the way with at most one "tap" or I'd be trying to compensate with extra pressure and my tongue wouldn't allow any air past. I was practicing with the former outcome, and then just *got* it completely randomly when I wasn't even trying. I wish I had some secret info for everyone in the replies who are struggling but I'm afraid not. At this point, I can only produce the isolated sound, and can't do it voiced yet. And it's not 100% perfect either. Given that I can't get it every time I try (it's more like 90%), I do think it's a case of getting all the steps perfect just once and then being able to finally progress from there. Good luck everyone. (Jan '24) Nope, I still can't get my tongue to vibrate lol. This video did definitely help with my tongue placement but no matter how much I try I can never get it to actually vibrate... closest I've gotten is when I've sneezed! Hopefully I can get it eventually lol

At last I know what to do. Four years of high school Spanish and two more semesters in college. Lots of people tell me I have good Spanish skills, but they just don't acknowledge I haven't been able to trill my r's. I have a linguistics degree and never had anyone show me where the tongue is, what part of the tongue is there, and how to build up pressure like saying an [Indian subcontinent] d. I have had many people attempt to describe what is going on to no avail. Now, I'm taking Latin. They think Latin speakers trilled their r's; so, once again, I'm on a quest to do it. Thank you. I actually got this working partially tonight.

When I try to add the air pressure, the air just passes by my tongue

Can you please elaborate on “air pressure”? I actually don’t know what are you talking about

This video just goes to prove that the simplest explanations are always the best! After four years of learning Spanish I've been very inconsistent with trilling r. I've now spent two days nailing it every time! (it's a start)

I was someone who thought my palette was the wrong shape and would never be able to do this. However after watching your videos (and others), I can finally do a closed mouth tongue trill most of the time. I still have alot to practice, but I've been stuck on 1a for so long and it feels like a breakthrough. What was really helpful for me was practicing getting my tongue tip in position with just the back and sides of my tongue. Do it throughout the day and don't "try" too hard or too long. That way, you can catch yourself naturally when your mouth is relaxed. Then once I got that down, i literally started with with the sound i make when i hock a loogie (a hoarse vibration in the back of the throat, but be careful not to stretch your throat). Then transition that vibration of the throat and back of the tongue to vibrating the front of the tongue (by engaging my relaxed tongue practice). From there it was a matter of finding it for the first time and remembering to relax while hocking a loogie.

These videos are fascinating, even more so since I couldn't trill my r apically for decades, I only could simulate it with the uvula. I only just recently (this year) figured out how to do it, in the course of doing online Spanish lessons. I was able to do it after lots of practice... however, I still couldn't have told you exactly what I was doing to make the sound until I came across your video channel. The key, for me, was realizing that I have to pull the tip of my tongue back when I do it, and also subconsciously cup the tongue. I still can't hold it for a long time, fortunately that isn't a super important part of speaking the actual language, but I am working on it! Fantastic videos as always, I am learning a lot from them.

Yeah, my tongue does not vibrate when pushed with air. The air just goes around it. The only way I have ever been able to vibrate the tip of my tongue is use my throat that little flappy thing hanging down from the throat. It has never worked for me. My Bosnian family (trilled r's are used, and I cannot do them and never have been able to) have always thought me to be defective. I do think it is one of those things you have to be genetically inclined to do or learn, like being able to learn to play a violin, or any complex instrument, like a maestro, or to rattle of primes to a billion wihtout thinking. Reading through the comments, it is heartening to know there is a community of people who cannot, no matter what they do, trill their r's. It is like a support group.

I’ve been waiting for this information for a long time. Retroflex was the word I needed I think, nobody ever mentioned that. I can do a fake Indian accent so I can trill my r’s, it was always that easy! But I never knew I could. Thanks

Spanish speaking guy here. For most part this is exactly was I was trying to explain to some english speaking friend when rolling their R: >Location of the tongue. >Similar sound in their native language. >The cat purring method. I already send them this video, so they finally can embrace spanish rolled R.

"Find the D sound." "Done." "Find the other D sound." "Done, I feel it." "Put some air pressure." *Lower Lips immediately let out all air, not vibrating the tongue as it is cleaning out my gums.* OR *Wind noises/No Noise at all.* At this point, closest thing I got is some inhuman mess in the back of my throat. I can't tell if it is just I am unable to roll my tongue due to it not relaxing, my lips not being tight, my entire 'D' sound being off, my tongue folding itself too much, not being able to relax my tongue, etc. I have tried for fifteen years to get this right and I still am no closer. At this point, I think it's just safe to assume any language with a rolled R is an automatic fail and I'll just have to move on. For those who succeed, nicely done. You have far better control, patience, or just better mouth shape. I sincerely and utterly think it's just impossible with my mouth structure at this point.

Ahh yes, an update to the already great original video. Also, since you did point it out, I just noticed that when I trill my r, it's also asymmetrical, slightly favoring the right side of my tongue. Great videos as always! Greetings from the Philippines!

Holy shit, this is the best video on the subject I've ever seen. The shwa was such a breakthrough point. Thanks for the video!

honestly, i have no idea why has youtube recommended this video to me, because neither do i learn spanish, nor do i need to learn how to r, because this sound is a part of my language and i already know how to do it. but i still want to comment on how good the quality of this video is. you’re doing a great work! keep going like this, please. your explanation is neat and practical.

So good! I have always been able to trill but have been struggling to naturally fit it into the words themselves and the sound just entirely collapses. This was so helpful.

Your directions were vert descriptive. This is the first time i ever even got any kind of trill sound. The best trick was to lie down and clear the throat. Thank you

With this video I have graduated from making an ungodly hissing noise with a lot of drool to a fart sound made by my tongue behind my teeth, without drool! .. . It's... progress???

These videos have helped me finally be able to trill the R. It took quite a bit of practice, but I am able to do it.

This is a good video. I notice that this video like any others that I've watched-none mentions that when you're mouth is dry (and you're first learning), it's a lot harder to make this sound.

Thank you sooo much, you've changed my life.

This is a brilliant way to break down how the tongue works when trilling. The slightly raised tongue when the air is pushed against it, naturally vibrates it against the alveolar. I can finally (nearly) roll my Rs! 😛 Practicaré mucho

WOW! I can finally do it. Thank you so much!

I love your high level of specificity...it really helps. I'm curious if you know anything about how Spanish evolved to have this trilled r? It is a quite noticeable feature and occurs more frequently than any language I've heard. I dare say it is the only language that systematically does this.

Thanks for the video! Another tip is to tilt your head backwards, it makes it easier to hold your tongue in the correct position without tensing it.

I trill asymmetrically too. When I try to trill symmetrically, I notice that my tongue stiffens a little bit, and the tip of the tongue goes from [ɖ] to [d] but still just behind the alveolar ridge. Strange. Anyway, thanks for the description at the start. Your explanation is way more effective.

I love how you speak, to the point and use oictures. I struggle to understand when ppl start describing which part of the tongue/mouth should be doing what

This is a great video and i quite like it. But i was still having a question that where you got those information on Spanish phonetics and phonology from. I have some of my friends majoring in English linguistics and they use English phonetics and phonology - Peter Roach as a curriculum material. I wondered if there were sources where i could get phonetic transcriptions or IPA transcription for Spanish and French. Thank you ❤

When I try this, air leaks from both sides of my tongue further back near the rear teeth, making a "double flutter" there. The tongue tip just doesn't move. If I try to stop the side leak then the entire tongue stops fluttering.😢

Well... I sound like an angry helecopter or machine gun, and my vision goes blurry when i do it, lol

I've been trying to trill my r's since I started learning Spanish at age 9. I'm almost 50 now and still can't really do it. I can usually do the sound in isolation, but I have trouble adding it to a word or sentence in a natural way. I feel like I have to stop, trill the r, stop, and then continue. It's especially difficult in a word like "ferrocarril" where I keep stopping and starting. I think I need to work on trilling the r without thinking about it so hard. I've been learning Catalan lately and it's even harder because practically every r is trilled. I'm glad to know that an asymmetrical trill is OK and I don't have to keep working on vibrating only the tip of my tongue. My trill, when I can do it, also goes around the right side of my tongue. I also find I tend to blow too hard, which combined with the stopping and starting, really calls attention to how hard I am trying. The word comes out more like "ferr o carr il" or even "fe rr o ca rr il" rather than "ferrocarril" because I can't make it flow. I am going to keep working on it. At least I know I am physically able to make the sound. I always wondered if my tongue was too fat or too muscular or had some other anatomical problem that made the trill impossible. I need to work on relaxing my tongue. I tend to clench my jaw and I think tensing up the tongue goes along with that.

These tips combined with hearing you thrill, prrrr and brrrr, as well as speak many words with the thrill made a big difference on finally gaining traction on the first stage, vibration. I am feeling tongue vibrate on roof of mouth, but also uvula vibrating and getting irritated. I'm not able to make r then neutral uh sound. Maybe too forceful of expelled air ? It definitely doesn't feel like gargling by any stretch, but uvula vibrating. I'll keep practicing daily and welcome any other detail or example on what is meant by a "tiny bit of air pressure inside mouth" [minute 5:55]., whilst mouth/lips are actually open. BTW - Thank you also for the excellent and thoughtful practice plan

Thank you for creating such an informative video that is very understandable for those new to the language. But I do have a couple questions. Would you consider the voiced alvealor trill r to be an apical, subapical, or sublaminal consonant? And wouldn't the Retroflex D (Voiced retroflex plosive ɖ) position be post-alvealor?

watched countless videos. This is the best so far. im closer not there yet but get what needs to be done. in time i hope i will

I had watched many videos teaching me how to make "rr" sound, just felt confused. But after watching this, I could easily make "rr" sound. Thank you so much for making this video!

Hi thanks for this, interestingly I cannot trill an R this way at all, I just make strange noises! however if I place my tongue tip ahead of the D sound test area of the mouth, instead of behind it I get a perfect 'R' trill. My tongue vibrates perfectly just behind my front upper teeth i.e. a quick "R" vibration for single letter R in Spanish and prolong the vibration for double spanish RR words. To be more specific there is a slight rise in the gum behind the 2 front upper teeth, I tend to bounce the rrr vibration off that, works great. I will however practice both methods to see if I can crack this method, great video and thanks again.

Awesome, I learned how to trill my r from your video a few months back! Now I have two follow-up questions: 1. I found that depending on the vowels preceding the trilled-r, my tongue tip position varies slightly. For example, when pronunciating "agarrar", my tongue tip is a tiny bit backwards comparing to say, "rojo". Am I doing this right or this is just a bad habit and I should improve consistency over time? 2. Does trilled-r require more airflow in general? I found that I frequently run out of air if the sentence is long, and I couldn't trill it properly. Again, not sure if it's just me.

Hey Dan! I'm lucky in that I don't struggle a ton with trilled Rs. However, I find it difficult to pronounce words such as "rural," where one R is trilled and the other is not. Do you have any suggestions? I can say it if I talk very slowly, but not at a pace fit for conversation. Your videos have helped improve my Spanish pronunciation a ton, by the way! Thank you!

Another great video! Comforting to know that an asymmetrical trill is normal, I thought it was just me getting it wrong as my tongue tends to go towards the left when I do it

I guess one thing I want to make sure I'm thinking about correctly, is how the sides of the tongue are in relation to the teeth. The exact moment before pronouncing the English [d] I seem to have a complete pressure seal between my tongue, my molars, and the upper ridge. When releasing that air pressure, I think I'm symmetrically releasing my tongue from both sides of the tongue at the molars and the ridge. I'm guessing besides the tongue tip placement being different, I should expect the way the tongue is releasing the air pressure to be roughly the same? This is actually a bit different than what I had been trying all these years, where I'm only letting the pressure escape at the tip of my tongue instead of all sides, creating a weird whistling noise. Will still need to practice, not sure if I'm keeping my tongue too tense after pressure release, but I guess this is one more mystery solved in my quest to make this sound.

Very helpful!

This is by far the most helpful video on how to trill your Rs. I'm finally able to trill my Rs after years of frustration!

One question, I now can do the tongue movement pretty well as in your video 05:02 to 05:04. You said that if I make a sound with my (voice), I should then get a trilled (r), ie 05:09 - 05:11. Where and how this (voice) should come from?

Hey there, quick question: How exactly do I make air pressure in this position? All the air flies out from the sides of my tongue. I understand the manner and location of articulation, but I cannot for the life of me get my tongue to do this. I know I can, since my native dialect of English uses Alveolar tap quite extensively, so I don’t want to give up on this sound as I’m on the C1 threshold of Spanish and this is the main sound I have yet to master in my pronunciation. Thank you for the video! It was very high quality.

I've been proficient at trilling R for years, but I could not do it at all when I tried following along with video and then right after when saying Spanish words. I got it back only when I thought about "speaking Spanish" in general and ignored my tongue.🤷

It’s helpful, gracias

No matter how much air flow I produce, my tongue does not move.

Is there any observed variation in the length of the trill with certain dialects? So certain regions or dialects that are more prone to either only have few taps(say 3-4) in the trilled r and others that have more extended trills?

i have a tongue tie or Frenulum, ive never ever been able to trill/roll my R's as my tongue just goes completely rigid as a brick. can people with tongue ties roll their R's? do i need a tongue tie release surgery before i can trill my R's? answers please!!!! im learning Russian and loving it, but cannot roll my R's!

Thank you. I am learning Spanish with comprehensible input.

Interesting. Good job. French R is still trilled in many regions though, such as Occitanie (30% of the country), Catalogne, French Polynesia, etc. There are 3 Rs in all Romance dialects. Manejar is lenis. Carro is fortis. Para is monovibrante.

I can do a very short trill, particularly when pronouncing r at beginning of a word or drr etc. I cannot do a sustained trill, it turns into a buzz. Putting my tongue in the position described seems to maje it more difficult. Mine seems to work only when tongue tip is at the back of my front teeth not up at the gum.

I just figured it out, I wasn't flattening my tongue enough to create a complete closure. It's been years of being made fun of :) great vid

I finally got it, thank you!

Just been watching to try and hone it beyond just making a horrific sound, and found out it works so much better for me asymmetrical!

For me, it is getting my voice in there. I can find the placement, flutter my tongue and make that kind of guttural noise. But I cannot engage my vocal cords. Still practicing.

Thank you 🤙🏾✍🏾

This is so helpful, thank you! Question: Should it sound like a bee buzzing as you are trying to create the vibration? That’s all I’m getting. ( I also end up vibrating my lips!) Just wanted to make sure before I keep practicing it over and over.

I'm having trouble with getting the back of my tongue down. It seems like whenever I do the tongue in the retroflex position and I finally get the front to start vibrating, the back vibrates at an offset pace, so my tongue constantly switches between the front and the back and creates almost a flutter tongue. I have a background in brass instruments and I've practiced flutter tonguing with the back of my tongue so I'm almost positive that this is merely the result of a habit practiced across years and years of brass playing. What would you recommend to break this and help the back of the tongue relax so I can get this sound out authentically?

Can anyone help? I can get the retroflex English d just fine and I can get a complete seal. But whenever I try to do the next step: "create a tiny bit of air pressure in your mouth - the tongue flutters" it just doesn't. The air comes out in spurts - either not at all, since the amount of air that I try to breather out doesn't break the seal; or in a long flow, when there's enough air to break the seal but the tongue doesn't flutter "in the wind", it just stays down. If it does move back up, the seal is complete again. It's like the air flow is either on or off. I've tried varying the amount of air pressure (how forcefully or soft I try to breathe out), the pressure with which I place the tongue in the retroflex position, moving my tongue further back or more to the front, and I've tried to relax the tip of the tongue as much as possible, so it can flutter - but whenever I do that, it just drops down and lets the air out unhindered. Do you have any tips on what I could try to make this work? Doing the same thing over and over again without any difference in results is quite demotivating.

I can get to the point where I can trill the 'd' sound and can also trill a 't' but I cannot get the 'p' as in the next step and I can't get my head around it because your lips make the 'p' sound, the tongue is in a completely different position for 'p' (relaxed at the bottom of the month). This is also what I find impossible with trilling the 'r' because my tongue is also at the bottom of my mouth to make an 'r' sound. Unless I have been pronouncing 'p' & 'r' wrong my whole life! Anyone have any tips for this stage?! Thanks for the video to get me started. *Also a tip for others struggling with the first step, I found drinking whilst practicing (I had a cup of warm tea) and also leaning your head right back or even lying down really helps!*

Hi there! This video did help me get started on trilling my Rs but I can only get about 3 or 4 "beats" before it stops. I can't figure out how to extend it. Is it possible I'm doing something close but incorrect or do I probably just need to keep practicing until I'm more comfortable with it?

I've watched all your videos on trilled R and I can get it to flutter, its very close but its near as fluid as yours sounds. I think it has to do with my tongue not staying in the right position, so it starts sounding like the "bad trilled R" you demonstrated in the first video. Like I'm swallowing my tongue at times and letting too much air come through. Is this something you just need to practice or do you have any other tips? I've probably spent hours upon hours working on and still can't quite seem to get it. I have to say its beyond frustrating how hard this is 😬

I'm using this to teach Latin, and now left wondering what a Spanish D is since odds are good it's a sound I didn't even know that I'm supposed to be making for Latin, the ancestor of Spanish. I also notice that my trill (while making the same air tight seal) is in closer to the same position as a normal non-retroflex English D. I don't know if this is important or if it's even possible to distinguish the two sounds produced.

I was able to flutter my tongue before, but couldn't use it in speech bc it was hissy & I was doing it against my teeth and had to strain my jaw to do it (ig you'd call it an interdental trill?) Anyway this video helped a lot with my placement and a few weeks later I now have a much more relaxed and natural sounding trill, and can finally use it in speech great video

The last part is really good, you should focus on that too

I tried this position of the tongue and the tip won't flutter. I relax, I do everything you say (not only you, but dozens of other instructors on YT) and there isn't the slightest movement in the tip. Simply never. All I have been able to do, is move the R from the back of the troat towards the middle of the tongue, but it never affects the tip. Okay, it does flutter when I stick it out like a baby and blow, but only then. And no, weak motor skills is not the problem, I'm a dancer and speak many languages (practicing my mouth's motor skills on a daily basis since I was ten). But after 20 years of struggling I find myself quite discouraged. To be honest I think that there must be more of a genetic component to it; my babysister has always been able to trill her R (and that's not even part of our mother tongue).

This was so simple and easy to follow up until the tongue started fluttering. Retroflex D, got it, air pressure might be iffy though because there is no fluttering at the front. Any vibration ends up in the middle or back of the tongue, I know that's not right. I get closer to a whistle than to a flutter up front , hmm.

Whenever I do this the sides of my bottom lip vibrate instead of my tongue. Am I the only one with this specific curse?? It sounds almost like a tongue trill (just without any of the sumptuous beauty). Even if I hold my lip down, whenever I'm at the "create a tiny bit of air pressure" stage my tongue simply doesn't move. With an airtight seal, no air comes out at all. If I relax the tongue enough, air comes out, but there’s still no fluttering… sounds more like a raspberry. Thank you for the video though, the diagrams were really helpful - clearest explanation I’ve seen so far.

I learned to relax my tongue by holding my head back, placing my tongue in the right place, blow and my tongue vibrated to roll the r.

I also followed lots of this type of video but couldn't do it. All I could do was vibrate the sides of my tongue. One day I decided to start with this side vibration and try to move it to the tip and that's how I finally got tongue trill.

Thanks to this video and putting in some efforts, I think I have mastered the trilled r sound- except when it's preceded by the vowel /i/. Any thoughts?

Hi i have a question, i can trill my R in two ways ....one of them is by having my tongue touching what feels a little ball up in the roof of my mouth behind upper teeth and trilling right there........and the other one is a more floating tongue position without aiming to touch that little ball..its like the tongue is floating in the air while trilling behind upper teeth......these methods are very close to each other, which is the correct method? thanks

I can trill and I’m still watching this

Great video. I have seen many others but the key is to put the tongue back a few mm as you say. My question is that when I practice the Prrrrrr and Brrrrr sounds I find that my lips are vibrating and not my tongue. How do I change the focus? Thank you

I want to express my gratitude towards you and this incredible video you made. It cleared some confusions I had: the major one being which part of the tongue vibrates. I practiced all night and the next morning, and I managed to roll my rr somehow, and it felt amazing! It's still not perfect and hard to roll in words, but I believe practice makes perfect! Thank you again and looking forward to seeing your new content!

I’m honestly starting to get so frustrated with the number of tutorials that I watch and I still can’t trill

i tried every video yet i still cant do it. I can easily make my tongue vibrate on the alevolar ridge by blowing air. Then I add voice to it as well. But it sounds more like a machine gun than a rolled r. I tried different trognue positions, different vocalisation. It seems like everybody else gets it down the moment they make their tongue vibrate, yet I could do it from the start but the sound still isnt like the rolled r. And I cant find anyone with this issue anywhere on the internet besides me

I am still unable to the the trill; I think I might have produced an oscillation in the tongue, but it was a low frequency oscillation, maybe ~3Hz, unlike an actual trill. Pushing more air through the tongue produced a more sibilant sound than an 'r', so maybe my positioning wasn't quite correct? More practice is in order.

Yep. The best. omg. you wouldn't believe what's out there. Using in words and sentences is def. the important last step. Want to use this for singing in Italian -- however, outside of listening to someone sing a particular song ... I'm still a little confused about when they're strong, weak, or no rolls.

ITS BEEN 4 HOURS I AM GOING INSAAAAANE

I can now do the second step, but when I add (or even not) my voice, my trilled r sounds like trrrrr. It seems I have to force more air to let my tongue vabrate. Am I doing it wrong, or I just need more practice? Thank you.

I can trill only with hard breath, so It's difficult to add voice. I don't even distinguish if my unvoiced r is fricative trill or normal trill. How can I know my r is correct or not?

I'm able to do it but I'm requiring too much air to get it to vibrate. So it means I need to "warm-up" a bit and before every trilled r I have to take a big breath. And then I hiss for 0.5 seconds before it starts. Any ideas? It's been like this for years, I can't improve it even when speaking a lot of Spanish.

The thing that you forgot (IMHO) is that trilling the R is easier when it is followed/surrounded by certain vowels, and more difficult in combination with others. I think my Rrrrr is pretty good, but I find some words very hard to trill on because of the shape of the lips. Here is my personal list of Easy to Difficult: Easy: Ra - Ro - Re - Ri - Ru :Difficult Thus I find a word like "raro" to be quite easy, but "rural" I have always found to be impossible to pronounce in Spanish. I actually don't believe that all native speakers pronounce the Rrrr the same way in all phonological contexts. The shape of the lips and mouth varies with each vowel, and therefore, it effects the quality of the Rrrr. That might be a bit complex, but it is true, and certainly affects the sound and freedom of the Rrrr even for native speakers.

Anyone else able to vibrate tongue but when ever the roll occurs it feels like its coming from the tonsel and back of throat? Really hard to get right

How do you apply air pressure???? Blow???

I teach Hindi. I'm interested in your characterization of the retroflex "d." I think the Indian retroflex "d" involves more of a curve of the tongue than what you described, but I'm curious as to whether you have read differently!

Yeah, I just sound like I'm choking lol. I was able to follow until the part where you add air pressure to trill

As soon as I put my tongue where it was when I pronounced the “d” sound I got it!!!! Thank you!

Why am I watching this?? I'm mexican 😂😂 Don't be discouraged if you don't get the r sound right, it took me quite a while to master it and I'm a native.

I saying R from my throat and I find very difficult to say it correctly. Is it possible that I never be able to trill R sound?

I came into this video with a bit of an advantage with on being able to vibrate my tounge sometimes…but wow not only does it sound way better but I’m much more consistent now! I’ve watched many videos on the subject but his video is most definitely worthy of its title tbh

Ok, I need to share this. I'm Brazilian (therefore, Latin). Still, I often struggled when trying to pronounce this phoneme (even though we KNOW this sound and how we could make it, he doesn't exist in our language itself, and the great majority of Brazilians don't use it in their dialects, so it still can be difficult as we don't use it), and I was confused on where to place the tip of my tongue. It's pretty wacky that I've learned how to pronounce this Spanish phoneme (of a language which is phonetically similar to Brazilian Portuguese) properly with an (I suppose) American guy, or, anyway, someone who has English as their motherlanguage. This was by far the most unusual way the English language (and having learned it) has ever helped me. Thank you.

this helped me a lot i finally know how to do this omg

I finally did it! I cant seem to make the AH sound while trilling.. any tips?

The only issue I have with this is, the picture of the roof of the mouth highlighting where to place your tongue, in that image there is a depression, a lowering in the gums just above and between the two front teeth, but, neither I nor people I have just asked this to have that, we have a raised bump there not a depression, I'm not sure if thats of any relevance or if it doesnt matter but I was wondering if you know if it does matter, thank you for the video it was very informative

If I am having trouble with the trilled R how should I pronounce an R that begins a word... Should I use a tapped R sound or an American R sound (although I know it is wrong)

i can say “correr, carro” and stuff like like but i cant hold my rolled r’s for long at all! like im able to do it, but i cant hold it and i cant do it without saying a word with it