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Old March 26, 2023, 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar View Post
Some regional accents pronounce "r" sounds differently. For example, in Puerto Rico and some places in the Caribbean, many speakers tend to pronounce "l" instead of "r" [Puelto Lico, seƱol...].
Some Chileans and other South Americans pronounce it more like the American "r".
But most speakers tend to use "r" and "rr" in a mostly standard way.
I wouldn't say it's a matter of difficulty; it's probably more about the influence of local indigenous languages.



Oh, nice!
To complicate matters, sometimes the l sound is replaced with r as in esparda instead of espalda.
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