How do you pronounce the Japanese "r"?


How do you pronounce the Japanese "r"? Is it more like an "l" or something
inbetween? Would there be any picture or video explaining it correctly, please
link it!




The sound that's transcribed in Romaji as 'r' is what's refered to in
phonetics as an [alveolar flap](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar_flap)
(or alveolar tap). It's a sound made by quickly tapping the tip of your tongue
on the alveolar ridge (the same place you use to pronounce sounds like 't' or
'l') and to native American English ears sounds somewhere between an 'r' and
an 'l'.

If you are an American English native speaker, you probably already make this
sound when speaking your own language. It's what's the double-t is pronounced
as in "better", for example.




The sound that's transcribed in Romaji as 'r' is what's refered to in
phonetics as an [alveolar flap](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar_flap)
(or alveolar tap). It's a sound made by quickly tapping the tip of your tongue
on the alveolar ridge (the same place you use to pronounce sounds like 't' or
'l') and to native American English ears sounds somewhere between an 'r' and
an 'l'.

If you are an American English native speaker, you probably already make this
sound when speaking your own language. It's what's the double-t is pronounced
as in "better", for example.

