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Old 09-06-2009, 12:15 PM
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Yeah, the 'r' is just something you kinda gotta here a few times to get right; text descriptions always seem to fall short. Between listening to French music and watching French movies, I heard it in lots of contexts and have been able to use it to varying degrees of stress. This is why this video is great because it features the casual pronunciation, there's what the sound is nominally, and then there's how the sound actually gets pronounced in conversation where it often just becomes a hint of a closing of the air passageway in the throat rather than a full fricative.
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