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Practice Your R Sound

Use the following table to practice the R sound near different letters and in various positions within words. Read the list to your teacher to find out which R sounds are clear and which are not. Once you know when and why the R sound is hardest for you, you will be able to make progress efficiently.

The words are as similar as possible. When there is no word to exactly fit the row, a close word is used.

R First	R Second	EER	IRE	URE	OR	Open AR	Long AR	Schwa R*
ring	bring	beer	buyer	pure	bore	bar	bare	labor
rhyme	crime	career	crier	cure	core	car	care	worker
rain	drain	deer	dire	endure	door	radar	dare	trader
reef	free	fear	fire	furious	for	far	fare	safer

R First	R Second	EER	IRE	URE	OR	Open AR	Long AR	Schwa R*
rate	great	gear	gyre*	figure*	gore	garden	garrulous	girl
real	low risk	clear	liar	lure	explore	alarm	flair	sailor
rise	marine	mere	mire	mural	more	marvelous	marry	farmer
room	new rule	near	entire	entrepreneur	nor	narcissistic	ensnare	complainer

R First	R Second	EER	IRE	URE	OR	Open AR	Long AR	Schwa R*
raise	praise	peer	empire	pure	pour	par	pair	developer
read	reread	rear	prior	rural	roar	are	rare	error
really	surreal	seer	sire	sure	sore	sorry*	share	dresser
retire	true	tear	tire	mature	tour	star	tear	waiter

R First	R Second	EER	IRE	URE	OR	Open AR	Long AR	Schwa R*
red	three	theory	thrive	through	thorn	father	there	author
river	travel	veer	drive	revenue	vortex	caviar	very	ever
rewind	reward	weird	wire	interviewer	war	water	wear	power

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