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Listen whoever you are - we were having a nice conversation here with Old China with tea and crumpets about the letter "R," and you barged in like... like.. an elephant into China shop with your "Received Pronunciation" and your reps ratio that no one cares about.
You have nothing to brag about in that department yourself so let us be and talk about the letter "R" all we want.
As an Italian I never had any problem in our 'R' (although there are those who mispronounce it) and as a consequence I always found easier to reproduce the German, English and French 'R' than viceversa (actually I rarely found foreigners able to truly master it similarly to the 'gl' and 'gn' sound typical of Italian).
As an Italian I never had any problem in our 'R' (although there are those who mispronounce it) and as a consequence I always found easier to reproduce the German, English and French 'R' than viceversa (actually I rarely found foreigners able to truly master it similarly to the 'gl' and 'gn' sound typical of Italian).
I am just curious - how exactly do they mispronounce it?
Does it sound more like dutch kind of "r"? ( Or French sorta?)
I am just curious - how exactly do they mispronounce it?
Does it sound more like dutch kind of "r"? ( Or French sorta?)
We call it erre moscia (wimpy r): it sounds like French R, usually in its most exaggerated forms it resembles a vibrant V.
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with your "Received Pronunciation" and your reps ratio that no one cares about.
so let us be and talk about the letter "R" all we want. 
( Or French sorta?)
