Quote Originally Posted by MasterAdmin
What do you guys think about the explanation of the Russian letter "P" as a flapped "tt" in "matter"? I tried to explain it like this to an American girl and it worked for her. The only thing is that I asked her to multiply that "tt" sound. But perhaps when you just read from a webpage it may be confusing...
That's a an interesting way of describing it, although I prefer to think of it as a rolled "R".
Audio samples would be even better.