Many native English speakers complained that Asian people cannot pronounce "R" and "L" correctly.  Have you experenced such difficulty? Does anyone have good idea as to how to overcome it?

Thanks and regards,

Moolan

My thai friends have some trouble with "R" and "L" because it's not phonetically in their language.  They've never had to make that sound with their home dialect, but it's common in the English language.


I just keep teasing them till they finally get it.

Quoting from [Rizzob]:

Hi Rizzob, does your teasing work?

I also heard that some people put a little bit of stone in their mouth to practice "R", some hold a sip of water.

Moolan

Replying to [Moolan99]: Most Asian has this problem, so I.

Raw, Low, Law, Row.....well they both sound the same for me.
This is the biggest problem of my oral communication.

Replying to [Moolan99]:Dear Moolan,
Indian languages (and there are plenty of them) use R and L in abundance. Besides, most Indian languages have there root in Sanskrit, which is phonetically correct language, each alphabet is having its own identity, and is written , read, spoken in only one possible manner.

Besides languages with Persian descent and arabic descent make R and L very prominent.

However, far east is different, where R and L are strangers.
Sixer

Quoting from [winnie the pooh]:



Replying to [Moolan99]: Most Asian has this problem, so I.



Raw, Low, Law, Row.....well they both sound the same for me.


This is the biggest problem of my oral communication.

Hi Winnie,

you know how dogs growl, right? First try to reproduce the sound like they do, from your throat. Next step, do it vocally, that means, in your mouth, not your throat. If you manage to do that, you are done!

For the ending of these words, try the following: for sounds like in "raw" and "law" , try to find a sound that's right in the middle between the international (not English) pronunciation of "o" and "a", and make that a relative long sound.

For the other two words, say "o-u", (also according to the international pronunciation) trying to combine this into one single sound. - As easy as that!

Germex

Replying to [germex]:as a chinese girl, i also have this problem. i find it hard to pronounce clearly:R"&"L" as well as "N"&"L". i am so worried about this problem. i have tried many methods to correct pronunciation, but it doesn't work at all.

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Replying to [germex]:as a chinese girl, i also have this problem. i find it hard to pronounce clearly:R"&"L" as well as "N"&"L". i am so worried about this problem. i have tried many methods to correct pronunciation, but it doesn't work at all.

Hi Jenny,

you can't distinguish between "n" and "l"? Well, that should be easy to correct. Can you pronounce the "l" in simple words like "long"? If you can, just practice the sound of the "l" very slowly, and that's all. If not, ask somebody who speaks English very well to teach you. You should be able to learn that in a few seconds. It's really easy!

Can you say "now"? If you can, same thing: say the sound very slowly, until you have all the practice you need. If not, like above, a fluent English speaker should be able to help in just a few seconds. These sounds are really easy to distinguish.

Germex

Replying to [Moolan99]:
If you mix up the r with the l words will be:

Election becomes Erection.
Wrong becomes Long.
Raming becomes Laming.
Righteous be Lighteous.
Frame be flame.

Right becomes like

Street becomes sleek.

Replying to  [Street Smart]: he he, Street is smart and sleek

Replying to [germex]:
I get what you mean..thanks!

but...but you know how to pronounce dog's growl in Chinese? "wang~" just kidding....

thanks for the help