While prepping for a client session focused on the Canadian R sound, I figured I might as well document my prep and explain several ways to achieve the R sound. Canadian English has a rhotic R which is present in all locations. What that means is that any time you see the letter R, we pronounce it. Furthermore, in Canadian English, the sound is made using a stiff or tense tongue. It is not relaxed and flapping against the roof of your mouth like the trilled R sound that is present in other languages.

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