目次へ
回答する

trill or tap?

adrianlfc9,2013年2月26日の

メッセージ: 8

言語: English

adrianlfc9 (プロフィールを表示) 2013年2月26日 15:50:24

i assume the beginning 'r' in a word is a trill, but is a medial or ending 'r' in a word a trill or tap? how would one say 'iri'? would it kind of sound like 'irrrri'? or shorter?

Ganove (プロフィールを表示) 2013年2月27日 0:44:38

Every Esperanto 'r' should be pronounced as a short rolled 'r' like a Spanish 'r'.

Here are some listening examples for an Esperanto 'r':
in the beginning
in the middle
in the end

You can find more examples if you go through the course.

orthohawk (プロフィールを表示) 2013年2月27日 2:50:00

Ganove:Every Esperanto 'r' should be pronounced as a short rolled 'r' like a Spanish 'r'.

Here are some listening examples for an Esperanto 'r':
in the beginning
in the middle
in the end

You can find more examples if you go through the course.
You better run this by the Lernu Esperanto cabal before you go pontificating or you'll be dnounced before all of Esperantujo as a rube.

erinja (プロフィールを表示) 2013年2月27日 11:59:34

Wow. That response sounded rude. Want to re-word that?

Bruso (プロフィールを表示) 2013年2月27日 15:44:48

adrianlfc9:i assume the beginning 'r' in a word is a trill, but is a medial or ending 'r' in a word a trill or tap? how would one say 'iri'? would it kind of sound like 'irrrri'? or shorter?
Is there any reason to pronounce an initial r unlike a non-initial r? I know Spanish does that, but Spanish isn't a conlang. Allowing for some sandhi phenomena, Esperanto should be one letter-one sound.

Makes more sense to save the trill for geminated-r (as in "superrigardo" ).

BenjamenoPoeto (プロフィールを表示) 2013年2月27日 23:46:39

If you want to learn how to pronounce Esperanto, I suggest listening to Esperantists known for having good pronunciation. A good example of someone that can easily be found on Youtube is Ivo Lapenna. For a native English speaker with good pronunciation, there are some Youtube videos out there of William Auld reciting poetry too.

adrianlfc9 (プロフィールを表示) 2013年2月28日 0:15:30

Dankon for the help,
I think i will look those people up

erinja (プロフィールを表示) 2013年2月28日 3:20:08

Bottom line - there's a wide range of what's considered acceptable in Esperanto. But in general a single tap is sufficient for an r in any place in a word, and for two r's together, a bit more of a trill. But if the best you can get is a trill for any kind of r, that's fine. The important thing is to pronounce the r clearly so that you are understood. A standard English R is not always heard as an R by Esperanto speakers from other linguistic backgrounds, which is why we try to get the tap or the trill if we can.

Do your best but don't get too hung up on it.

先頭にもどる