#retroflex

bilabial fabiodental thental nalveolar shostalveolar ɽetroflex yalatal kelar quvular ħaryngeal ʔlottal

English: normal, general, common

সাধারণ লোকেরই সমস্যা হবে।

sādhārôṇ lokeri sômossā hôbe.

It is the common man that will face problems.

Bonus:

A common struggle for English speakers learning Spanish is learning how to “roll your r’s” or trill. It’s a gesture that's hard to describe, and some people just never get it. Even some Spanish speakers have a hard time doing it. I have a friend whose first language is Spanish, and she told me that when she was a kid, she couldn’t do it even though everyone in her family could.

When you first start learning Spanish, it’s not that big of a deal. Your mouth is still adjusting to the new combination of sounds. However, rolling your r’s can determine how natural you sound and which words you’re saying.

For this post, we’re going to take a look at the IPA chart. The symbols used in this lesson are: For English: retroflex approximant [ɻ] and alveolar flap [ɾ] For Spanish: vibrante múltiple alveolar (alveolar trill) [r] and vibrante simple alveolar (alveolar flap) [ɾ] Go to this website and listen to them: http://www.ipachart.com/

In Spanish, there are actually 2 distinct r sounds. They are called “vibrantes”: simple [ɾ] and multiple [r]. The multiple is the trill sound which doesn’t exist in standard English. It distinguishes words like perro, carro, and cerro from pero, caro, and cero which are pronounced with the simple. The multiple also present where r is the first letter in a word. This may not be important when the word is alone, but in a sentence, the sound can make the beginning of words distinct.

The vibrante simple actually exists in English and is called a “flap”. The flap is the r sound in the word pero, but it's also the sound that occurs when you say words with double t and double d quickly, such as in butter and paddle. Subconsciously, we pronounce those words with the flap rather than with pure t and d.

So, when you see words like pero, caro, and cero in Spanish, it may be helpful to picture them spelled like this: petto, caddo, and cetto.