Round your lips

9 May 2025 · 1 min

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Short YouTube tutorial by Hadar Shemesh demonstrating how rounding the lips affects pronunciation and appearance of the R sound. The speaker contrasts the same sentence said without lip rounding and with lip rounding to show changes in sound quality and visual mouth shape.

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What sounds and looks better. Run. Run. Let me show you why rounding your lips when you pronounce the R is important. Let's listen to a sentence and see it without rounding the lips and with rounding the lips. Ross and Rachel broke up. Ross and Rachel broke up versus Ross and Rachel broke up. Ross and Rachel broke up. It changes the quality of the R. It changes the way it looks round your lips when you pronounce the R.