speech problem

[Kamean]

Yes, more Spanish like.

['Oma Tirea]

I sometimes wonder about those languages where their only rhotic is [r] and some people can't pronounce it.  Moreover I sometimes wonder what phoneme they use instead...

You should come to Sweden. Our /r/ situation is (in)famous for being a huge mess.

How bad of a mess?  I figure several other Germanic languages have a similar mess for their rhotic consonant too

[Lance R. Casey]

I sometimes wonder about those languages where their only rhotic is [r] and some people can't pronounce it.  Moreover I sometimes wonder what phoneme they use instead...

You should come to Sweden. Our /r/ situation is (in)famous for being a huge mess.

How bad of a mess?  I figure several other Germanic languages have a similar mess for their rhotic consonant too

Well, its primary articulation in "Standard Swedish" (which itself is far from standard, or even standardized) is [r], but it can also be realized as any one of [ʀ], [ʁ], [ɹ], [ɾ], [ʂ], [ʐ] or even [w] or something bordering on [ʝ] (all with more sub-differences in degree), depending on dialect and context -- it can even change within the same word in a single dialect. Furthermore, in many (but not all) varieties the /r/ is assimilated when followed by a dental consonant, giving rise to retroflexion: "mars" ("March") becomes [maʂ], "årlig" ("yearly") becomes [ˈoːɭɪɡ] etc. Also, since this effect carries through to subsequent dentals, even across word boundaries, we get: "kvarts" ("quartz") [kvaʈʂ] and "ett barn talar" ("a child speaks") [ɛt ˈbɑːɳ ˈʈɑːlar] etc.

But the real mess lies in our /sj/ and /tj/ sounds. The former is so peculiar that it has its very own IPA symbol (ɧ), but phoneticians still can't agree on just what the heck it is -- and it has an even more convoluted distribution of (overlapping) allophones. We're a crazy lot.

[Dreamlight]

Aargh--and to think I've been wanting to learn Swedish.  If I go through with it I may have some work cut out for me in learning to follow actual speech. 

['Oma Tirea]

But the real mess lies in our /sj/ and /tj/ sounds. The former is so peculiar that it has its very own IPA symbol (ɧ), but phoneticians still can't agree on just what the heck it is -- and it has an even more convoluted distribution of (overlapping) allophones. We're a crazy lot.

Sran I read that a lot of spellings have coalesced into this phoneme, making that part of Swedish look worse than the coalescences of English

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[Lance R. Casey]

But the real mess lies in our /sj/ and /tj/ sounds. The former is so peculiar that it has its very own IPA symbol (ɧ), but phoneticians still can't agree on just what the heck it is -- and it has an even more convoluted distribution of (overlapping) allophones. We're a crazy lot.

Sran I read that a lot of spellings have coalesced into this phoneme, making that part of Swedish look worse than the coalescences of English

A lot? Hardly! I can only think of these off the top of my head:

sjö
sköta
skjorta
stjärna
shelfis
lunch
dusch
fascinerande
garage
Jeanette
station, nation (preserved stop)
diskussion
pension
fors (in dialects with retroflex merger)

[Athos7778]

Thanks but this dousnt answer my wuestion. I had a brace as a kid and mygum is at a sight tit because of thhis. What do i do if i cant do it? What can i use instead.

[Tirea Aean]

Thanks but this dousnt answer my wuestion. I had a brace as a kid and mygum is at a sight tit because of thhis. What do i do if i cant do it? What can i use instead.

Idk, whatever it ends up being when you try to do it?