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

Originally Posted by chaika

Throbert, Greka was going across the river, over a bridge, and by horse. I have just posted sworn depositions from the parties involved in the subsequent events of that day. See the Fun Stuff thread.

Chaika, спасибо за ссылку, об иске между Грекой и раком!

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.