Thread: Rolling the "Р" (R sound) - important, or not?

In my opinion, it's just a slightly different position of the tongue, when you say the R. (rolling vs English R)
I think the French throat - R is harder though. It doesn't always come out like I want it.

I struggle with the щ vs ш in Russian instead.

not important to roll your r's at all - within russia itself there's a region (i think around курск) where the sound is the retroflex r of english. also there are people in russia myself included who pronounce it a bit like the r in french. i think old generation geordies used to have that kind of r.