>>>>>>I the words "je crois" the 'r' is clearly not pronounced (to my ears). Is this a rule that the 'r' in this position of a word is never pronounced? Or an exception?
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>>>>>It is pronounced.
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>>>>I must have something wrong with my ears. Because on the CDs that I listen to French lessons, I could never hear it.
>>>>Thank you.
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>>>Me too, man. I never heard an english speakers "r" letters like your french story... :)
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>>Depends on the region. In New York, the 'r' is quite pronounced. Whereas in Boston, where I live, it varies.
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>I watched thousands of american movies, I believe in you but sure it's not our "r" like Dragan said. In movies I can understand better (they might speak more clearly or slowly) but in real life with real people it becomes a nightmare.
>In turkish we don't roll up letters. All letters should be say clearly in Istanbul turkish.

But this is about french. Written and spoken language are two different things. :)

Every lang comes with traps for foreigners (germans typically fail on english th while the town Mönchengladbach is a nightmare to the english ones. ö and two ways to speak ch )
Russian comes with a speak as you read style - but then it comes to Ъ and Ь and we are lost.
I know not much about turkish (IOW I can not order a beer) except that we and our turkish neighbors had a lot of fun calling anne in the backjard ... Because we meant our daughter ...