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On Sat, 7 Mar 2026 13:57:58 +0100, Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:

> Den 07.03.2026 kl. 13.01 skrev Carlos E.R.:
> 
>>> I have learnt a bit of Spanish in  a course of one year, weekly
>>> sessions. I can't make the rr-sound unless I produce a hurricane of
>>> air. One of my daughters (or both?) can make that sound as quiet as
>>> she likes, and so can her eldest son. So I don't think that it's so
>>> much a question of previous language as the genetic abality to move
>>> your tongue in different ways. But of course, if I had been born in a
>>> Spanish- speaking country I would have learnt through practise.
>>>
>>>
>> No, I don't think it is genetic. It is a learned ability when we are
>> babies.
> 
> To the best of my knowledge my daughter has never practised the sound.
> It doesn't exist in Danish and she has not learnt Spanish or another
> language with the rr-sound. The same goes for my grandson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QXJ3OXWaOY

No way can I get that purring sound out of 'Messer' and other words with 
'r'.  It might be a stylistic affectation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeQG5rv592Q

Whole different style but you don't hear a rolling 'r' in 'er', 'trägt' 
and other words that are in the 1931 movie version.