Dalyal Shiryaeva

While I was watching different video-presentations from tutors online, few highlighted this difficult sound and gave an advice to understand and pronounce it, which was (it’s quite popular on the Internet technique, although I wouldn’t call it a technique): “Imagine being punched in the stomach”. Now, really, would you use that to practice this sound? Punch yourself every time you want to pronounce it? And would be imagination of being punched useful to practice a sound? Let’s talk about that more...