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The difference between R and L is mainly the position of your tongue.  If the tip of the tongue touches the roof of the mouth it's an L.  It is impossible to pronounce the "R" sound with the tip of your tongue touching the roof of your mouth.

jwray says...

Well, the teeth work fine as a substitute for touching the roof of the mouth, but still, any initial L requires blocking airflow over the middle-front of your tongue. Some dialects get lazy with final Ls and let them drag on without a crisp ending as if it was an extra kind of vowel. But Rs never involve blocking the airflow over the center of your tongue.

jwray says...

I get frustrated because at both universities I've attended, every day is like Zero Wing. Even the professors who've been in the USA long enough to get tenure still have incomprehensible accents and strange syntax.

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