How to learn to roll your r in Bulgaria

I have been trying to roll my r in Bulgaria for several days. Today I think I finally cracked the secret. As I walked along a mountain path, people said good morning or good day in Bulgarian. I recognized the word, although I had never used it. The third or fourth time I started saying it back. Dobre, dobray, dobray.

After I had passed the person, who said it with a rolled r, I kept repeating it. Eventually I found msyelf saying dob thre (as in three). As I panted I could not say the thr sound properly. I was pulling my tongue back quickly, hardly touching the roof of my mouth. I kept saying it, again and again. I was getting closer and closer to saying it correctly. Somethines I missed. But I just kept on trying. Until I met the next native speaker. Again I bid them good day.

Do it like a toddler. Keep repeating it. What I did was ideal. Instead of tiring one person, I tried it on several. Nobody got tired of me or impatient.
So, take a walk in a foreign country, and reapeat a phrase using the sound you cannot pronounce. By the end of several hours, you will stop worrying about it and start saying it closer to the correct version.

About the Author
Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and speaker, teacher or English and other languages.

How To Roll Your Rs in Spanish and Italian - with the help of my dog

Countries where Spanish is spoken as a first language.

Problems
How do you roll your Rs? You can learn to read Italian and Spanish. Then you listen and try to repeat and you don't sound the same as the instructor. You try to speak it but you don't sound right until you can roll your Rs. You don't know which r should be rolled and which is normal - except by listening to the recordings and hoping you will remember the words which roll the R. At first you manage the correct sound once, but can't do it every time. Or only say it when reminded

1 You feel frustrated.
2 You sound like a foreigner.
3 Some words have different meanings with rolled Rs. Which ones?
4 You cannot teach anybody else until you can pronounce words correctly.

Answers
Keep looking on the internet for diagrams of the mouth and descriptions and repeating the actions.

Words Needing Rolled R - not needing rolled r
perro - dog - pero - but

I shall work on constructing and translating a sentence along the lines of: My teacher likes my dog but my dog only likes other dogs. My dog does not like other dogs but my teacher likes my dog. My teacher does not like dogs but my teacher likes my dog.

Google translate gives me this result:
A mi maestro le gusta mi perro pero a mi perro solo le gustan otros perros.
A mi perro no le gustan los otros perros, pero a mi maestro le gusta mi perro.
A mi maestra no le gustan los perros, pero a mi maestra le gusta mi perro.

Remembering which word and which type of spelling requires the rolled r is easy. The one which sounds like a dog's growl is the word for dog with a double r. Think of two rows of teeth in the word for dog.

The google all the videos describing how to do it. I like to revise my searches every six months. Somebody new will have added a video by that time.

https://www.supercocoapp.com/post/how-to-roll-your-rs/

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.