this mf straight garglin lmfao 
I'm a native spanish speaker and I can't roll my rs. I'm kinda self doxing just for saying that because it's a very idiosyncratic feature of my dialect lol.
Stereotypically, they don't sound at all. I guess the sound is just a bit shallower, like half rolled.
I love that one Japanese dialect that rolls rs, it's usually delinquent characters in anime that do it for some reason.
When they wind up for a big punch and hit em with the "orrrrrryeaaa"
Having a phoneme only your homies know how to use is pretty good for opsec
Rolling my r s is one step closer to speaking fr*nch and that is a step i will not take
I can roll my rs like I'm a Scot (just a lil tap), I can roll em like I'm a Spaniard, I can roll it like a Quebecker with a really wet R (wet is a weird adjective for this in English...). I can't do it like the Parisiennes though, their rolled French style Rs are nice and soft.
I think the Paris R is like tapping a 'G' but even farther back on the tongue and throat. It's ok though, not everyone can hit the G spot.
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According to Wikipedia, general American English already has the rolled R (alveolar flap)
I can do it sometimes but not other times. I'm not sure why. I don't even know why it's called a rolled R. It's more like you're moving between D and L really fast
The fact that languages distinguish between 1 tap and multiple tap rolled rs is wild. In Armenian they even have different letters
It's honestly how you can tell if someone is US raised or an adoptee. Works like a charm every time.
Other than people who are tongue tied or whatever most people should be able to learn it. It just takes practice if your native language doesn't have the sound, a bit like learning to whistle if you can't already. You "can't do it" until you can and then it's no big deal. The experience of learning to whistle and learning to roll my r's was very similar in that regard for me.
I like to tell people I can't whistle and get them to teach me but I am a very bad student and just when they are about to give up I do a whistle and then get excited but can't do it again.
I never could until I was in high school working an after school job that I would walk to, and since the walk was about an hour or more each way, I started using my commute to try whistling over and over until I finally got it. There’s no good way to learn except to try it over and over, and not for like 5 minutes and then give up. I don’t remember how many days of walking to work it took me to finally get it, but it was probably dozens of hours of just blowing like an idiot, thinking I’d never get it. Same for rolling my r’s. Hours of just sounding like a dummy (it was important that I did this with nobody around because if anybody was listening to me I would have been too embarrassed to keep trying) failing to do it before I started to get the right sound coming out of my mouth. I was several years into learning to speak Spanish and getting some fluency in the language to where the lack of rolled r was becoming a point of embarrassment for me.
Now I can do both like a champ. I only relate my experience to give some hope to anybody who thinks they’ll never be able to do it, but wishes they could: don’t give up!
