R and RR Sounds in European Portuguese (Portugal)
Channel: TugaLearning
Date: 2017-05-09

The different sounds of R in European Portuguese. The words I selected, each slowly repeated 3 times, are combined with different vowels to produce similar sounds.
Basically the single Rs at the middle/end of the word are produced by flickering the tongue near the front upper teeth (alveolar flap), while the double RRs in the middle or the single Rs at the beginning of the words are produced by shaking the uvula (a more guttural throat-like sound called uvular trill). Some people in Portugal (especially in the northern regions) may still pronounce another sound, the "alveolar trill" (multiple sequentially produced flaps) which I did not pronounce in this video. More information about these can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolled_R

At the end there's a phrase hard to pronounce even to Portuguese natives. If you're able to master the pronunciation on this last one, you should have no problems whatsoever with "R" sounds in Portuguese.

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