Oh my gosh. I've been trying to do the Hebrew R for days now. In the shower, while I'm doing chores, before bed, lol. It never worked. I tried your first technique and it came out instantly. I'm so happy!! Hahah, thanks for the video!

@Sprinkling_waters

5 жыл бұрын

Nonnie same!! 😄 He videos are super helpful!! 😊 Same though it took longer for me, because I just didn’t noticed that much at first, until this video corrected me!! 😂

@Polyglot_English

2 жыл бұрын

Детерминизм это Свобода 🤙 🤙

@Hg-rq5ok

11 ай бұрын

Same story

Out of all foreign languages, this is probably the hardest sound I've ever tried to pronounce in my life. But thanks to your tutorial I'm getting the hang of it. Thank you

@aabdis

3 жыл бұрын

For me, I think the hardest sound I've ever tried to learn is the "ы" in Russian. It's like this weird, deep, guttaral thing that sounds like you're starting to throw up and trying to hold it back. NEVER could get the hang of that stupid letter! lol

@aabdis

3 жыл бұрын

@TEHRAY Don't have any experience with Chinese. Korean though, the hardest part for me - at least in what little I've played - was the vowels. Man, half the vowels in Korean all sound the same!

You are AMAZING! It's always bothered me, as a non-native Spanish teacher, to hear my students say, "owh-lah" for "hola"...now I'm trying to speak ivrit to sound like a native. I can't wait for more of your videos!

I feel that I can now speak Hebrew much more passionately! Thank you so much for this video.

@rhaehodges

5 жыл бұрын

It's weird to watch you morph into another person just by the progression of the accent haha the stresses!

@SammytheawesomeILikePotatoes

4 жыл бұрын

Rhae Hodges hes a very good teacher for conversational! I’ve been learning biblical and this is so different! But even with the different accents between the two languages he’s helped me with conversational

the purpose of the uvula is to be able to pronounce resh. ;P

@Butterfly_stardust

5 жыл бұрын

humilulo cool info!!! Interesting...

@servantofaeie1569

4 жыл бұрын

humilulo nope, it is to pronounce /q/

@screamtoasigh9984

4 жыл бұрын

@@servantofaeie1569 see the winkand tongue?

@humilulo

4 жыл бұрын

@@servantofaeie1569 /q/ .. nice! i stand corrected! :) I think you are absolutely right.

@screamtoasigh9984

4 жыл бұрын

@Laura S#FAUX forward.com/opinion/398738/no-sephardic-pronunciation-is-not-more-correct-than-ashkenazi/ www.jewishamericanheritagemonth.com/sephardic-2/ashkenazim-and-the-sephardic-pronunciation-of-hebrew-jewish-link-of-new-jersey.php

Love this explanation, especially the voiced/voiceless. My speech language pathologist brain relates perfectly to this explanation.

I struggled with replicating the sound for years and both techniques worked for me the first time I tried them! Absolutely amazing!

I stumbled across this video by accident and had little intention of even watching it through but it was excellent and thoroughly helpful: thank you so much! I shall be back for more!

Excellent techniques! Thank you for making this helpful video, Ruben. :) Now I can improve my "resh".

I'm blown away! I can't believe it worked! :D Thank you! That first technique was the best explanation/tutorial I've ever heard.

So incredibly useful - resh as a vocalised chet! Like a lightbulb went off in my head! Thank you so much for this!

Wow. This is SO helpful! I'm going to Israel in a week and have struggled speaking resh correctly. The starting with chet and adding voice worked for me. Thanks!!

Because of your video, I've improved my resh in just a couple weeks! Thank you so much! You helped me to pick up on this new sound so fast. The "start with G" tip made it click for me.

This is also my struggle with the French 'r'.

This is so GOOOD, I sent this to 8 different friends who I'm trying to school! Thanks Linguistix

That was perfect, and very helpful. Thanks so much!

Wow! Best video about "Resh" ever! It helped me a lot! God bless you! Thank you so much!

Wow, great techniques! Nice job!

Genius technique to get where in the throat to make the sounds and to get the body memory of how it feels! Todah! I'm so glad I found you instead of floundering around with how to pronounce this beautiful language with its unique sounds!

@Linguistix

4 жыл бұрын

I'm soo beyond thrilled that this technique worked for you! It's great to have somewhat of a tangible connection, and sometimes hard to believe that the same sounds (or similar) exist across languages / language families! 🙏

Thank you very much for your tips! I discouvered your Channel this week! I Like It so much! God job! Hugs from Brazil!

This is amazing. I had been pronouncing it close to that but i was not confident that that was right at all! Thanks for your help

This was Phenomenal! Todah Rabah! :)

Thank you very much! I had no idea how to make that sound, but now it totally makes sense. Thank you!!

Thank you for such an easy to follow technique.

This is so clear and helpful! Thank you

Dude, you rock lol I was having so much trouble trying understand just what was going on lmao

I thought my pronunciaton of the r was pretty good but this video totally helped me pronounce it better! the g example was perfect

Fun to watch, awesome series. Super duper helpful. With your help I someday hope to say my boyfriends name, Tomer, without completely butchering it. Keep em coming!

Can’t thank you enough for this video! I’m finally confident pronouncing the “resh”! So happy!

@Linguistix

3 жыл бұрын

This is such great news!! So glad this clicked for you!! יאללה!!

God has truly blessed you with the gift of languages. Thank you for sharing what you've worked hard to learn, wisdom and helping unify the world in understanding 💓

This was very helpful!

Yay!! Let’s double subscribe!! I subscribed on both of my channels, because your videos were just so amazing and helpful, too!! 😊 Keep it up, Reuben!!

Totally fantastic! Thanks!

That was super helpful. Thank you!

Reuven, I've missed you! Why did I just get this sent to me today?? Well, this was genuinely awesome. I speak French (as does my daughter) and they think I'm French when I speak Ivrit in Israel (same for my dtr when she first moved there). The resh is by far the hardest thing to do. This will really help.

Wow! Wonderful technique!!! Thank you soooooooo much!

@Linguistix

7 жыл бұрын

So glad it worked for you too, Peter!

Great video! Many videos I have seen focuses on learning the language with little emphasis on pronunciation many thanks

@beatnick92

5 жыл бұрын

So true!

Very nice explanation!

Definitely giving you a shout out in my next video. I'm learning Hebrew to read the bible and am doing an art project to go along with my study. Nothing too serious, but it's like iconography stuff, meant for me to practice and have fun. I'm doing gimel and dalet and trying to record myself saying derech and it's taken me a week for just one word! This series of videos is amazing! Toda Rabbi!

That is the best resh explaniation I ever seen.

Awesome! Really appreciated these hints!

@Linguistix

3 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad these clicked for you!

This is really helpful. It's hardest when the ר appears at the end of a word, like נהר. And מקרר is about the hardest situation I've found! Good for practice I guess.

@charles.neuman18

2 жыл бұрын

I'm thinking at the end of a word it's less scrapey. When I listen to מקרר, the first ר sounds more scrapey than the second.

This was very helpful thank you

תודה רבה לך!!! Thank you!!! This is perfect!

this was so helpful!!!!

Unbelievably useful video. Thanks

@Linguistix

4 жыл бұрын

Really happy this resonated with you!

Thanks for your video, very helpfull!

Really helpful, thanks.

Excellent content. I was wondering how to make that sound. I knew I wasn't doing it right

Thank you for repeating the sound several times.

🙌 Shalom, this is so amanzing!!! todah rabah!

You are a genius! thank you so much for sharing your techniques! I was fighting for years with the the resh sound, finally, I think it becomes quite decent. 😃 (Ps. I am not native English speaker... )

Excellent video. Very didactic

I've been wondering how to get the "resh" right since forever and this is the first time that I heard that it's close to "het"! Thanks!

brilliant help, thanks.

The man's face and expression killed me when he did it inna french accent hilarious😂, you deserve the likes Efficient explanation, practicqlly useful and funnyyyyyyy

Wonderful!~ thank you

Thank you!

Thank you for this vidéo! :)

That's so smartly laid out :)

@Linguistix

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Nastasia! So glad it's easy to follow!

Thank you so much for the tips! As a native Italian speaker (Spanish R) I'm struggling a lot to master the Resh sound. Sometimes I pronounce it too hard and it sounds like Chet. This video helped a lot!

@Linguistix

4 жыл бұрын

Bravo Greg! Glad these techniques clicked for you!

thank you,! first techniques rocks !

Great overview thank you! I was rolling my Rs like Spanish but now I get it!

Very helpful!

Holy shit man, this is extremely helpful. I've been living in Israel for 11 years now and always struggled with ר. Now it makes way more sense when you put it in the relation with כ. Thank you bro.

@Linguistix

3 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad that association clicked for you!

To my French brain, the difference between resh and chet was almost impossible to hear. Resh is a lot closer to the vocalized G sound, thank you for making that connection!! It's still really hard to do but now at least I hear it

@Linguistix

6 жыл бұрын

Chloebadoe I think in some instances a French R can be voiceless (or sound that way) esp after voiceless consonants (Très to me sounds more like טְחֵי) and maybe that's why? Either way I'm glad the G technique worked!

@ChloeBadoe

6 жыл бұрын

Linguistix Pronunciation I can't think of any French use of vocalized R, at least not in QC or Parisian! English vocal R has kind of a lame foreign quality 😅 but I finally understand why my israeli friends told me to use it!

Thanks so much! Watched your video twice and finally got this! I was struggling and rolling resh like a Spanish r. In google translator it even sounded like an English w to me.

@Linguistix

Жыл бұрын

That's fantastic! So glad these techniques clicked for you! 🤗

Me, coming from ח-video: Hmm, I can't pronounce that, I will move on ר, it looks easier. You: Let's start from ח 😂😂

Thank you you really help me!.

@Linguistix

6 жыл бұрын

Ariel M Glad these techniques are working for you!!

I am glad to know I wasn't the only one substituting the Russian "r" since I am more fluent in Russian than Hebrew. This video really helped me though with the pronunciation and hopefully I am a bit closer

Thank you

the most beautiful language ✡

@almogd8506

3 жыл бұрын

thank you! or you can say תודה רבה לך! :D

@benjamin-df2qv

3 жыл бұрын

@@almogd8506 רק אמת אח

so help full not only for speaking but hearing also .. makes understanding Hebrew much easier .. Todah or that would be tODaH

Wow I really love your teaching technique. It really works. One of the hardest words for me is beseder. I am American and I come off with a really hard R every time. When I hear a Hebrew speaker speak it, it sounds like besedel. Is this just my ears deceiving me I wonder. Thank you ever so much.

Great teaching! You are very talented. I suggest you add key words to your description because your videos don't come up easily in search.

@Linguistix

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Eliz!!

I absolutely loved the explanation of the pairing between ח and ר! I picked it up almost instantly. I was familiar with the chet sound from German, and kept trying to use a weird German/French r sound...It was bad. Now, I'm just struggling not voicing the Resh, but most of the time I'm fine. Only some sound groupings are throwing me off now. Thanks!

@maltototte95

6 жыл бұрын

"ר" is the exact same sound as the French "r". In French, "r" is pronounce "ח" when preceded by an unvoiced consonant, and "ר" otherwise just like Hebrew. It's not really a language thing, it's just how the human palate is designed.

@maar162

5 жыл бұрын

@@maltototte95 it's actually a little softer

I'm so glad, I didn't have to learn that sound. I've always tried to teach my Russian friend our "r" sound which sounds almost or maybe even exactly like the Hebrew "r" sound using your first technique and I've never succeeded, she just couldn't do it, so that's how I know it must be pretty hard to master.

תודה!👍

Hahaha! This is great! Thank you! I could not for t life of me figure out how to make this sound. Now I may choke on my tongue trying to do it but at least I understand the concept! 😂

Wow! This is BY FAR the best advice/two-step approach. Thank you. On a more funny tangent, you mentioned '... that fleshy thing that hangs down in the back of your throat.' I was just minding my own business strolling down my neighborhood street when I randomly noticed a long chain extending from the roof to the ground of my neighbor's house. The chain was guiding the rain water from the open end of a roof gutter. The water exited the gutter and flowed down the chain, guiding it into a catch basin on the ground... then emptying the water away from the house. Could the 'fleshy thing' have a similar purpose, guiding any post nasal drip to a more localized concentrated spot down your throat for efficient drainage? I'm either a whack-nut with too much time on my hands, or I'm a absolute genius deserving a Nobel prize in medicine (though I don't know anything about medical stuff). I prefer the latter. Just having fun...

you really helped me a lot. thanks a lot. a lot. a lot. a lot.l a lot. a lot.

Brilliant

It worked!!

@Linguistix

6 жыл бұрын

Wahoo!!

What a great way to teach it. I've been trying to make the noise by myself and I sound like a wookie. I get frustrated when I start sounding french and my tongue stops working. Now I know how to set up my mouth ;-}>

שיעור נחמד!

Good video. My practice word was Israel. Lots of examples online of how different people say it!

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תודה רבה

@Linguistix

4 жыл бұрын

בכיף!

I have such a strong American accent when I speak Hebrew and my friends always laugh at it thanks for the video and helping me make my accent a little less strong

@Linguistix

4 жыл бұрын

Happy this technique is helping you move forward! Feel free meet with me and talk Hebrew accents anytime www.meetme.so/meetwithruben

I had an easier time with technique two, using the G. Still need to practice it a lot. Very helpful video!

@Linguistix

3 жыл бұрын

Great to hear one works better for you! I agree the Gimel trick is actually a little easier to access. PLUS that technique will help more with final Resh sounds and Resh between vowels, since what we need there is a softer, less scrapy sound 😀

I used to the R in Spanish because it was my first language

Embarrassed to say I made Aliya three years ago--my Hebrew is so bad that the pizza delivery guy switches to English. I'm in Ulpan Gordon, but am not sure I've made it into kita bet... yet. (In my defense, I didn't know the letters when I first arrived.) So this is me trying. You make it much, much more doable. Thank you. Thank you! THANK YOU!

@Linguistix

2 жыл бұрын

Oh I'm so glad to hear! And you're definitely not alone. Hebrew can be extremely dense and tricky and that's before you bring in pronunciation 🤣 Keep pushing (or simplifying) and I'm sure you'll get that pizza guy to keep it in Hebrew every now and again!

@ExtraPencil2

2 жыл бұрын

@@Linguistix thank you. I don’t want to be one of those Americans who assumes everyone should speak English!

Still love referencing your videos, and my husband is watching them now too. As I've progressed, I've found one thing really hard!! Any advice for voicing a resh and a chet together, like in far-- רחוק

the only sound I still can't pronounce..my first language is Russian.. since I turned 3 I could pronounce Russian R normally. All my life I knew that there's only one normal beautiful R. (English R is easy too but it's different) But that sound R in Hebrew it's like something we all were told to avoid in Russian 😟it's even not a French R which I can pronounce from time to time. my problem is - I pronounce Russian R too professionally..😅😅

@M4th3u54ndr4d3

4 жыл бұрын

You can pronounce the russian R. This R is the mizrahi, sephardic and biblical pronounce. The people will understand you. And is much more beautiful than modern israeli ר

@davidsoliev

4 жыл бұрын

Не пытайся исказить рейш ,. Буква рейш должна произносится точно так же как и в русском , в библейские времена и вообще на всех семттских языках она твердая , просто гребаные ашкеназы из Германии которые говорили на идише исказили звук так что не следуй тенденции и произноси рейш правильно

@davidsoliev

4 жыл бұрын

@@M4th3u54ndr4d3 exactly , modern hebrew pronunciation of reish is actually wrong bcz of freaking askenazim from German

@M4th3u54ndr4d3

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidsoliev this is not true. There are a lot of mizrahi who also pronounce the Resh like german/french R. In some dialects of Aramaic, the resh is also pronounced that way. You don't need to be disrespectful and xenophobic.

@Rolando_Cueva

4 жыл бұрын

Ger Toshav не рейш, а рэш

Muito bom

It would be helpful if the speakers emphasised where in the mouth the sounds come from and maybe to make a few more repetitions of the basic sounds. The videos are very helpful.

For the longest time, I cheated Resh with a soft Chet but now I got it!!! Thank youuu!!!

@Linguistix

3 жыл бұрын

יששששש

I was just thinking it sounds like between a g and a guttural ch, so this confirms it, now I have to commit and do it without self consciousness! Thanks!

@Linguistix

7 жыл бұрын

I'm glad that it resonated with what you had initially thought! Go with the gut! ;)

It helps for me to think of it as a French 'r'. Maybe other French speakers will find that useful It's kind of a French 'r' with a little more roll to it. But not too much or it'll sound like chaf

This was helpful! I will practice both methods and see how it goes. I have often been confused with being French when I speak Hebrew and now I know why. By the way, the English translation at the bottom of the screen is very detracting as they get most of the words wrong. If the translation can be fixed or removed it will enhance the viewing experience. Continued Success.