So...
I’m continuing to learn how to speak Spanish…
With all its nuances…
Like tongue placements…
Specifically, when saying certain letters of the alphabet…
Like “R”.
I’ve never had to think about “R” before…
Or where my tongue is in my mouth.
When I use an “R” in English…
The most I do is move is squeeze my chin down and purse my lower lip…
Keeping my tongue still at the bottom of my mouth.
But Spanish requires a lot more tongue movement.
For instance, “R” at the beginning of a word…
Gets rolled like rrrrolled.
If “R”is in the middle of the word…
It gets a quick snap of the tongue past the teeth…
And up to the roof of the mouth.
And then there’s “D”…
That in Spanish gets a “th” sound…
But with the tongue sticking further out between the teeth.
“N” with an accent has the whole tongue pressed to the roof of the mouth
Like what you do when trying to get peanut butter unstuck.
Hmm?
Is it just me?
Or when you learned a new language…
Did your tongue have trouble...
Finding its place?
