Practice the R Sound in American English 🗣

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   I'm just going to make an R sound, and I want you to close your eyes and just try to find that sound with your mouth.

   我只是要发一个R的音，我希望你闭上眼睛，试着用你的嘴去找到那个声音。

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   So I'm going to do it for about two seconds, then you do it for about two seconds, then I'm going to do it, and we're just going to go back and forth for several times and just see what you can find.

   我会发音大约两秒钟，然后你发音大约两秒钟，接着我再发音，我们来回几次，看看你能找到什么感觉。

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   R R R R R R R R Okay, so a couple things are happening.

   R R R R R R R R 好的，现在发生了一些情况。

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   It's actually starting pretty good, and then you're kind of doing this with your jaw.

   其实开始的时候还不错，但后来你的下巴有点动作。

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   Yeah, yeah, and actually, that is that is making it less good.

   是的，是的，实际上，那反而让效果变差了。

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