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Can you roll your R's?
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I'm American too, born here, never been anywhere else. However, I am of Mexican heritage, and my first name has a rolled R in it. Funnily enough, despite this, I didn't know how to roll my R's until I was 16ish.

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I speak Spanish pretty damn well but my tongue just does not work that way

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I mean, it's just not a sound that exists in our language and accent, so a lot of people don't develop the ability to make the sound. It's like how most French people can't make the th sound

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Well I can't machine gun my Ts or Ds either. So yay.

Nope, and I'm pretty fluent in Spanish. But learned it as a second language and that sound does not existg anywhere near Midwestern English, so I'm stuck always sounding like a gringo

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Lol Carne doesn't have a rolled r. It's not the English r, but it's not rolled

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I speak Spanish but can't do it to save my life

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