Anyone got any tried and proven ways for learning how to trill?

Everyday I'm doing my wife's head in making motorbike sounds and other odd noises but still don't feel anywhere close to being able to trill correctly.

How many times they have showed me and explained where the tongue should be to achieve the rrrrrrrr......lol......I will always have a foreigners accent Im afraid.

you'll do it one day when you least expect it!!

but you're right - you're unlikely to ever really sound Spanish - but as long as you pronounce words correctly they'll understand you

Me speaking spanish with a Plymouth accent is about the best I can do....but I get some fab compliments from people so I must be saying something right.

On its own it's easy enough to do, but incorporating it smoothly into a word when speaking, without sounding like a right tit, is the tricky bit.

Probably easier for the Jocks as they already do it to a certain extent.

My 12 month year old succesfully rolls his RRRs when making motorbike sounds.

So keep it up!

Cool! - So Mrs B will just have to put up with me a bit longer :-)

Never mind motorbikes, just copy your cat and learn to purr!

This has always made my daughter laugh. I speak what little I know of French, Italian and now Spanish with a strong Plymouth accent so we are an elite club.

Rosemary

Youre from Plymouth?

Aren´t all the best people? Childhood in Higher St Budeaux and then Lipson near Freedomfields Hospital.

Rosemary

Hmm I can do the purring sound like her but only with the back of my tongue/throat.. back to the ducati ;-)

Yep!

Both my sons were born in Freedom Fields... and thirty years on and living in Surrey, I still slip up and say Freedom Fields when I mean St Peters