How to Pronounce RR or R in Spanish:

¡Hola! It’s Brenda Romaniello here today. Happy Hola Tuesday!! How is your week coming along? It’s winter in this part of the planet, which means it’s the perfect occasion to binge on Spanish movies and palomitas (popcorn). I watched again one of my favourite movies of all time: “Amores Perros”. Have you watched it? This movie is a classic and it has been so successful that it’s quite likely that you have already seen it or heard of it.

Watching movies is a great exercise and a fun way to learn and practice Spanish.

Amores perros is a drama directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu & written by Guillermo Arriaga. The movie has a very interesting title because ‘perros’ which in Spanish means ‘dogs’ is also used to describe something as being miserable.

“Amores Perros” is a bold, intensely emotional, and ambitious story of lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash. Inventively structured as a triptych of overlapping and intersecting narratives, “Amores Perros” explores the lives of disparate characters who are catapulted into unforeseen dramatic situations instigated by the seemingly inconsequential destiny of a dog named Cofi.

The promotional poster of the movie says:
Traición, angustia, pecado, egoísmo, esperanza, dolor, muerte ¿Qué es el amor?
Treason, anguish, sin, selfishness, hope, pain, death. What is love?

*Note: Spanish movies are certainly not ‘Hollywood’, most movies have a very strong point of view, violence and nudity. So please be careful if you are not a big fan of that, I don’t recommend you watch this movie, though no dogs were harmed during the making of the film.

If you have already watched this movie, please tell us in the comments below what was it that you liked the most about it?

Now, let’s move to the actual part of the lesson. Like we mentioned above the movie “Amores Perros”, a drama directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu & written by Guillermo Arriaga.

Have you noticed all these double RRs? ‘Perros’, ‘Iñárritu’, ‘Arriaga’… Can you try to pronounce these words?

In today’s Spanish lesson we’re going to practice the pronunciation of words with “RR” one of the most distinctive sounds of the Spanish language.

You probably think that R is always trilled (like a Scottish R), but it’s not the case. Watch today’s lesson to learn when the RRs are trilled and not trilled in Spanish.

That’s all for today, I’ll see you next week on your Hola Tuesday lesson! ¡Adiós! ¡Hasta la próxima clase!