Problem in pronuncing the word with "r" and "l"

Well, Lim, you say you used to have the problem-- how did you overcome it? I teach it by having my students stick their pens into their mouths to depress their tongues while saying /r/, but that may not work for non-Japanese learners of English.

oh the problem has to overcome by practising your tongue always! There is a time where i asked a cousin of my to do it with lifting up the tongue when make the sound 'r' and letting down the tongue in the mouth for the sound of 'l' . Although it is not really succesfully by solving out the problem but it does help sometimes.

well, you may practice many time with your tongue i guess. Bear in mine, practise makes perfect!

i wonder if u can try to be familiar with the sound ot the alphaphet 'r' and 'l' first before going further into the word 'rain'and 'lain'. This is because u must already know the difference first before going to further in aquiring the whole word.

Lim, u must be one of the Chinese speaking Hokkien dialect, m i right? It is same to my case as well as i m also a speaker having problematic in this area. Glad that u have brought up the matter!

whenever i come across the word in reading text, i will tend to slowly pronunce the words but in when come to speaking , it will all pronunce wrongly!

[O]You need some time i guess to practise your tongue! keep on trying! Perhaps some day later u get it right!

Hello! I think it needs time to pronounce those words correctly. I face the same problem too! But this is a part of our identity right! SOmehow, i do managed to improve on pronuncing some words like 'drain' . It need a lot of conscious effort... Take it easy !