Week 6: That Dreaded /r/

As I've been practicing, I've been focusing on French vowels. I thought that those were where I needed to focus most, as accent is in the vowels and I want to speak as native-like as possible. I was planning on saving /r/ for later, as I determined it was too difficult for me to conquer yet. However, as I was pondering why my speech sometimes sounds so American, I decided that maybe it had to do with my /r/ pronunciation and that if I could work on that, some of the vowels would fall more naturally into place.

Well, I was certainly right when I thought it was difficult but I was able to begin, and maybe that's what counts. These two videos (1 & 2) were most helpful to me. I will definitely need more practice, as this pronunciation to me as an American English speaker is quite unnatural. Nonetheless, I practiced and practiced, and then I recorded numerous times.

Here is the recording for this week, where I think I yell-talked the least.