Setting the sound “r”. Exercises and tongue twisters

Many children experience problems with incorrect pronunciation of sounds. As a child, I was taken to a speech therapist at a clinic; I even attended a special speech therapy garden for a short time. And this story and the correction of speech defects somehow dragged on for a very long time and everything went difficult. Maybe the technique was unsuccessful. If I managed to cope with the sounds “s” and “sh” relatively quickly, then on “r” I stalled and this sound remained indistinct for me.

Already as an adult, out of curiosity, I looked at what was on the Internet on this topic and, saving the exercises I found in a file, printed out three sheets of A4 format. Every day before going to bed, I spent 15 minutes doing the exercises and reading the sentences. After a while, I began to read only one length and spend only 5 minutes a day. Just a couple of months later the sound “r” began to sound normal. The whole point here is insufficiently developed tongue muscles. At first, the sound sounds like “porridge in the mouth,” but gradually, with training of the tongue muscles, the sound is honed and becomes normal.

I publish below how I did it. The technique has been tested. It will be useful for both children and adults, including foreigners who are learning Russian. In Chinese, for example, there is no “r” sound, but in French it is guttural.

Gymnastics for the tongue

1. "Roaring Lion." Press the tip of your tongue to the upper palate and touch it to your upper teeth. As you exhale, when the tip of your tongue begins to tremble, you should make the sound “R”. The exercise should be repeated until the sound becomes clear and ringing.

2. Open your mouth as wide as possible so that the tip of your tongue touches the inside of your upper teeth. This is followed by several quick movements of the tip to the left and right. “Running”, the tip of the tongue strokes the upper palate back and forth, touching the upper teeth. The exercise is performed without closing your mouth.

3. "Strong wind." Pronouncing the sound “F” strengthens the muscles of the tongue and promotes clear pronunciation of the letter “R”. With your mouth open, the tip of your tongue touches your lower lip. Exhaling a thin stream of air, pronounce the sound “F”, while trying to make this stream long and continuous.

4. “Lick your lips.” Fix the lower jaw with your hand. The relaxed tongue licks the upper lip from top to bottom.

5. Pronunciation of the sound “D” promotes the correct position of the tongue to pronounce the letter “P”.

6. With your mouth open, place your wide tongue on your lower lip and begin to quickly lick it back and forth. Add a voice to the mix so you get a sound similar to that of a turkey.

Sound testing

1. To warm up, repeat a small complex:

R-r-r-r-r-r R-ry-ry-ry Ri-re-ra-ro-ru-ry Lri-lre-lra-lro-lru-lry

2. Practicing stressed syllables:

at the beginning of a word with a stressed syllable: mouth, rudder, frame in the middle of a word with a stressed syllable: nora, pari, kennel at the beginning of a word with an unstressed syllable: mercury, work, belt in the middle of a word with an unstressed syllable: measure, carousel, pair

3. Tongue twisters with the sound “R”:

During a thunderstorm, the body collapsed from the load of watermelons.

The snout pig was white-nosed, blunt-nosed. She dug up half the yard with her snout, dug, dug, but didn’t even get to the hole. That's why the sow hare snouts, so that she digs.

The tongue twister quickly spoke, quickly spoke, that he would re-speak all the tongue twisters, re-speak quickly. But having quickly spoken, he quickly said that all tongue twisters cannot be quickly spoken, not spoken too quickly.

4. Eliminating burr by playing with sounds:

Ra-Ra-Ra – frame, rainbow, mountain. Ry-ry-ry - market, fish, mosquitoes. Ro-ro-ro - rose, homeland, bucket. Ru-ru-ru - hands, pens, kangaroos. Ar-ar-ar - cook, sugar, orderly. Ir-ir-ir - passenger, marshmallow, kefir. Er-er-er - wind, evening, officer. Or-or-or – tomato, axe, fence. Ur-Ur-Ur – cord, outline, lampshade. Ra-Ra-Ra – Raa likes the heat. Ru-ru-ru - a kangaroo wanders in the grove. Ry-ry-ry - Zhora jumps from the mountain. Ro-ro-ro - the metro is being built quickly. Ar-ar-ar - Roma likes a tan. Ur-Ur-Ur – the socket has a black cord. Ir-Ir-Ir - kefir in a mug with sugar. Or-or-or – Verochka is painting the fence. Er-er-er - the officer is marching. Yr-yr-yr – Zakhar has fatty cheese.

Long tongue twister “Liguria”

On Thursday the fourth, at four and a quarter o'clock, the Ligurian traffic controller was regulating in Liguria, but thirty-three ships tacked, tacked, but never managed, and then the protocol about the protocol was recorded by the protocol, as the interviewed Ligurian traffic controller eloquently, but not clearly, reported , and reported so much about the wet weather that, so that the incident did not become a contender for a judicial precedent, the Ligurian traffic controller acclimatized in unconstitutional Constantinople, where the tufted laughter laughed and shouted to the Turk, who was blackly stoned with a pipe:

- Don’t smoke a pipe, Turk, you’d better buy a pile of peaks, you’d better buy a pile of peaks, otherwise a bombardier from Brandeburg will come and bombard him with bombs because some black-snouted guy dug up half his yard with his snout, dug up and dug up!

But in fact, the Turk was not in the business, and Klara the King was sneaking to the stall at that time, while Karl was stealing corals from Klara, for which Klara stole the clarinet from Karl, and then in the yard of the tar widow Varvara, these two thieves were stealing firewood. But sin is not laughter, not putting it in a nut. About Klara and Karl in the darkness, all the crayfish were noisy in a fight, so the thieves had no time for the bombardier, but neither did they care about the tar widow, and they had no time for the tar children.

But the angry widow put the firewood into the barn: once firewood, two firewood, three firewood - all the firewood could not fit, and two woodcutters, two woodcutters, for the emotional Varvara, expelled the firewood across the width of the yard back to the wood yard, where the heron withered, the heron withered, the heron died.

The heron's chick clung tenaciously to the chain; well done against the sheep, and against the well done the sheep itself, to which Senya carries hay in a sleigh, then Senka carries Sonya and Sanka on a sled: the sled hops, Senka sideways, Sonya head on, everything into a snowdrift, and from there only a head of bumps knocked him down, then Sasha went along the highway, Sasha found the sachet on the highway.

Sonya - Sashka’s friend was walking along the highway and sucking a dryer, and besides, Sonya the turntable also had three cheesecakes in her mouth - exactly like a honey cake, but she had no time for a honey cake - Sonya, with the cheesecakes in the sexton’s mouth, over-mixed, over-stuffed: buzzing like a ground beetle , buzzing and spinning: she was at Frol’s - Frol lied to Lavra, will go to Lavra to Frol Lavra will lie that - the sergeant with the sergeant, the captain with the captain, the snake has a snake, the hedgehog has a hedgehog, and a high-ranking guest has taken away his cane , and soon again five guys ate five honey mushrooms and half a quarter of a quadruple of lentils without a wormhole, and one thousand six hundred and sixty-six pies with cottage cheese from whey from under sour milk - about all of this the bells were ringing with groans, so much so that even Konstantin - Salzburg the unpromising man stated from under an armored personnel carrier:

- Just as you can’t ring all the bells, you can’t beat them again, so you can’t speed up all the tongue twisters, you can’t speed them up; but trying is not torture.

In conclusion, a little humor. If you just can’t pronounce the sound “r”, you think correcting this speech defect is too difficult, almost impossible, you have already given up... Watch the video to see how difficult it is for the Chinese to master this sound while studying the Russian language! One boy even had a nosebleed.

my experience

Reasons why people burr

Patients have a question: why do some people burr? The cause of speech impediment is:

Atony or paralysis of the tongue.
Injuries to the oral cavity.
Congenital or acquired anatomical defects of the speech apparatus.
Malocclusion, dentition, jaw formation.
National linguistic features.
Diseases of the hearing aid, decreased hearing acuity.
Genetic predisposition.

The doctor determines the cause and type of burr and selects methods for correcting speech.

How to stop burring at 13-14-15-16 years old

A speech impediment makes life difficult for a teenager. In addition to self-doubt and appearance problems, pronunciation problems are added. Lirring girls and boys close themselves off and avoid public speaking. It is clearly possible to unlearn how to burr and learn to speak correctly if you adhere to certain rules:

Visit the dentist every 1.5 years. The mouth and tongue are the main problem with burr. The specialist will correct the bite, restore the correct dentition, and shorten the frenulum of the tongue if necessary;
Do special gymnastics for the speech apparatus 3 times a day. The exercises can be the same as for children. They are made by teenagers and adults, kids. The main thing in them is not the person’s age, but the regularity and correctness of execution;
In adolescence, an old technique will help you quickly stop burring the letter “r”. Place washed pebbles or nuts in your mouth and talk with them in your mouth. They read prose, poetry, or speak loudly and clearly;
Any exercises are carried out before meals or an hour after eating. Then the muscles, tongue and palate are trained efficiently, and the defect recedes.

How to stop burping as an adult

Unlearning how to burr as an adult on your own is a real challenge. You can restore your pronunciation with the help of special exercises at home. After just a few weeks of daily exercise, adults begin to exercise less. After 2-3 months, the burr will disappear, confidence and relaxedness will increase.

Exercises for adults:

Slow speaking. Slowly and clearly pronounce the syllables “te-le-de”. Try to place the tip of your tongue behind the gums of the upper teeth. Daily training will strengthen the muscles of the speech apparatus, making it easier to pronounce sounds;
Acceleration. Pronounce the same syllables one by one at maximum speed, but maintaining clarity of pronunciation. The exercise will prepare the speech apparatus for pronunciation;
Training on simple words that contain the letter R. Look on the Internet for a training list of words. This can be suggested by a speech therapist during a consultation;
Patter. A speech therapy phrase with a combination of “r” sounds helps improve speech and speak beautifully. Phrases help: the crow will bring the crow to reason; the crow missed the little raven; in the darkness the crayfish rustle in a fight; by the pond in the grass in the darkness, crayfish rustle in a noisy fight.

Do the complex yourself 3 times a day. It must be done diligently. Then the problem will go away, and the lack of speech will cease to bother you.

Getting rid of burr

Burr is not a dangerous pathology at all. It does not cause any health problems. However, burry people may face a number of problems when looking for work. In this regard, a person’s self-esteem falls and self-doubt appears. For an adult, this can become a real problem, which will prevent one from being fulfilled in life, both at work and in family terms. Therefore, you need to know how to unlearn how to burr.

If you notice your child has speech problems, consult a doctor immediately. The advice of a speech therapist will help you get rid of this problem at an early age and forget about it forever. It is best to contact a specialist at the age of 5-6 years. Even at the age of 13-14, correcting such a speech defect will be much more difficult. Only a doctor can accurately tell you how not to burr and what needs to be done for this.

First of all, an experienced speech therapist will tell you what the causes of burr are, and will also determine why exactly you have such a problem and tell you how not to burr. He will also prescribe treatment. These can be easy exercises to correct speech if your case is not very advanced. But, he may also prescribe surgical intervention to correct the burr.

A person with a burr must be prepared for the fact that it will take time to correct the burr.

. Only a few months of hard work will help you forget about this problem. Of course, correcting burr is much easier for children than for adults. Even for a 14-year-old teenager, dealing with this problem will be more difficult than at 6 years old.

How to stop your child from burping

A child often burrs in families where there are several languages or where parents have problems with pronunciation. Adults have a question: how can a child not burr? A speech therapist, ENT specialist, or dentist can solve the problem. The speech therapist prepares the speech apparatus, the ENT specialist removes problems with the middle and inner ear, the dentist corrects the upper or lower dentition, and removes the tooth if necessary. With the help of specialists, the child’s burr quickly recedes, and speech becomes clearer.

Children can overcome burr and produce a solid sound with regular exercises.

Exercises for children:

"Sweet tooth"
. With the tongue, the child licks the upper and lower lips clockwise and counterclockwise 3 times in each direction alternately;
"Groovet"
. The child sticks his tongue out of the mouth as much as possible. At the same time, he is in the position of a narrow groove, the lower lip is relaxed. Then he slowly pulls his narrow tongue into his mouth. Do 5 repetitions;
"Let's lick our lips
. The child slowly licks his upper lip. The baby makes the movement smoothly. Do 5 exercises in one direction and the other;
"Naughty tongue"
. Stick out your tongue and open your mouth as wide as possible. Use the tip of your tongue to reach the chin and nose one by one. The lesson will be more effective if you count touches;
"Cool hill"
. Place the tip of the tongue against the lower teeth, arching it. Hold the position for 5 seconds. After a week, increase the duration to 10 seconds.

With regular practice, children achieve quick results; it becomes easier for children to pronounce sounds.