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there's something weirdly satisfying about learning how to pronounce new sounds that aren't in your native language

@Felthry

Frustrating, though, when I persistently can't. I've never been able to roll my Rs, despite growing up somewhere Spanish was a common language, and this even led me to getting docked points on a quiz in a phonetics class I took because, while I could recognize the symbol for a trill, I couldn't actually make the noise.

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