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From: rharmsen@knoware.nl (Ruud Harmsen)
Subject: Re: Acquiring a trilled R
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In article <3n8fnm$7lu@agate.berkeley.edu> coby@euler.Berkeley.EDU (Coby (Jacob) Lubliner) writes:
>Those interested in acquiring a trilled r for Spanish may be
>interested in knowing that there are dialects (e.g. northern Argentina,
>Costa Rica) in which the "rolled" r (rr) sounds like an American r.
>There are others (in the Caribbean) in which it sounds like the j of
>northern Spain.  In Brazilian Portuguese it is like h.
One of the two, yes. Portuguese has two different kind of r's, and so has 
Spanish, although not the same two..
