R Sound Quite Unlike English's

If you're like many English speakers learning Spanish, you find the basics of pronunciation fairly straightforward — until you get to letters such as R. Although you wouldn't be entirely accurate, you can get away with pronouncing many Spanish letters like their English counterparts, but not so the R.

Are you new to learning Spanish? If so, be sure to check out our guides to pronunciation:

• Vowels
• "Easy" consonants
• "Difficult" consonants
• Stress