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🗓️ 23 December 2010

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In the long-awaited 29th lesson of Coffee Break Spanish we look at tips to help you pronounce double -r- in Spanish and we build more language in the context of hiring cars in a Spanish-speaking country. Please note that lesson 29 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 229 of Coffee Break Spanish. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. Now it's lesson 69 and again we're
0:16.6	continuing this process of phrase building based on the constructions that
0:20.6	you already know and that you've been learning in the course of Coffee
0:24.0	Break Spanish. The context today is hiring a car and we're also going to be
0:29.2	practicing the double R7 in Spanish. Car like that. Okay, it's over to you. I hope
0:36.0	you enjoy this lesson.
0:41.8	So let's begin by learning the word for a car. Now we've probably done this
0:46.5	before. In fact I'm certain we've done this before. In Spain the word for a car
0:51.1	is un cote. However in Latin America and in certain parts of Spain
0:58.2	particularly the Canary Islands you may well hear the word un carro. Un carro. Now
1:04.4	that is the perfect opportunity for us to practice rolling your ours. Un carro.
1:12.2	Un carro. Okay. Yes, I'm obviously overruling my
1:18.0	ours here. I'm making a quadruple R rather than a double R with car. The
1:26.1	trick to getting this correct double R sound is the realization that in
1:31.4	Spanish a double R has to have quite a lot of breath going out of your mouth.
1:36.6	Okay, so what you need to do is put your tongue up to the top of your mouth where
1:40.6	you would pronounce the single R in Spanish. Remember like I think you said it
1:44.6	in an American accent car. You said bottle and an American accent. Can you
1:48.4	see that? Bottle? Bottle, yeah, or butter and where your tongue goes to
1:54.1	pronounce that T sound with an American accent. In words for example like
1:58.9	perro meaning butt. Then you need to keep your tongue there and then just blow
2:04.9	through your tongue so that the front of your tongue comes back down. Okay, it's
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