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On Sun, 8 Mar 2026 07:39:14 +0100, Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:

> Den 07.03.2026 kl. 23.40 skrev rbowman:
> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> As a kid I had problems with 'th'. I'm still closer to 'dese, dem, and
>> dose' than some, or Keit rather than Kieth unless I pay attention.
> 
> Where did you grow up? When I went to school some of my classmates
> couldn't pronounce the th-sound. My guess is that few Danes, if any,
> have that problem today.

Upstate NY.