Is the accent on the first syllable or the second or are they weighted equally?  Are both of the 'A's pronounced like a in fathers or is the second 'a' as in pan??
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yes, both a's would be pronounced as in nun. The stress is on the second syllable - yan, especially the ya. \nAnother popular pronounciation of the word is "nae-n" \nnae = as in neigh\n\nDepends on whether it is used as a name or as an object (it is Hindi for eye)
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colorado got it almost.  Actually "ge" and "gi" are pronounced with the same sound as the "j" in Spanish, and "ga", "go", "gu" are pronounced with the "hard" sound.  In addition, "gue" and "gui" are pronounced with the "hard" sound.  It makes more sense if you think of it this way: individual letters in Spanish might have more than one possible sound, but the same syllables are always spelled the same way.
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And on top of these answers there is mine:\n\nKraków is pronounced /krakoof/\n\njust because the "ó" letter is a orthographic variation of a letter"u", which is pronounced in Polish "oo" like in "foot"\n*"a" is pronounced like in "cut"
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Grammatically they are both correct.  #2 sounds more natural.  My only source is my Sprachgefühl (feel for language)
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I have never thought about it, but now that you mention it, yes you are right, the S is silent, but the name would look silly and incorrect if it wasn't there....\n\nYou know what else? I think spelling like this with the pronunciation that we have all grown up with, we can blame the French! LOL! I'm only half joking, but there's a grain of truth when it comes to some place names because they (as a nation) were there, and other European languages do the same.\n\nIt's even worse sometimes with peoples first names and surnames.
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It's pronounced all sorts of ways depending on the dialect of the person speaking. There is no "right" or "wrong" -- it's just the phonological (pronunciation) aspect of dialectal differences. I live about 20 miles south of Baltimore proper. I have heard all of the following:\n\nBall ti more\n\nBal'mer\n\nBall tee more\n\nBawl ti moah
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I hear it spoken around Stamford Hill in London.\n\nMy dad speaks it fluently but not as a first language.
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can is pronounced  [kæn] (diagraph) when it's stressed (like in a short answer, yes I can), and [kən] (with schwa) when unstressed (as in "I can play tennis") and it works for both varieties of English\n\nThe negative is different for British and American English since in BE it's pronounced [ka:nt] (with a latin a) and in AE [kænt] (with a diagraph)
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You're referring to the pronounciation of the letters "c" (before the vowels "e" and "i") and "z". Spanish-speaking Spaniards push the tip of their tongues against the back of the upper front teeth. The sound produced is similar to "th" in "Rosenthal". \n\nBut that is not the only difference in pronounciation with Spanish as spoken in other countries:\n\nThey also pronounce the "s" as a soft "ssssh". \n\nThe pronounciation of the letter "j" is also different. They pronounce it longer and stronger. "Mi parejjjja" \n\nThey also use compound verbs more frequently. A common example is the use of the ante-presente, instead of the pasado (past) of the indicative mood for describing recent actions in the past. For example: While in Mexico we say "Me caí"  ("I've fallen"), Spanish speakers in Spain say "Me he caído".\n\nAnother difference is the speed. Spaniards generally speak faster than people in Latin America.
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Most foreign nationals' children grow up with the native accent so in this case it would be english.  Not only would the parents accents most likely change but the child is exposed from school, tv & friends, all of which play a very big part in a childs accent.\n\nAnd yes destiny, americans most definitely have an accent!  Very strong in a lot of cases.  Is a southern accent the same as north, east the same as west? No...\n\nI believe southern england has the least tones and inflections in the english language but i'm probably wrong.
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vowels tend to have a shortened sound when followed by a consonent and a long sound when followed by another vowel.\nHaditha would be pronounced Ha dith a .\njust as Iraqi is pronounced IR ah kee or IR ahk for iraq.\nyou don't say I rak ee do you?
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prob ger ick eh accent 1st syllable
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Thanks for asking this. These are so commonly mispronounced, and I think it's just as a result of so many people being self taught from books. It certainly isn't that nobody cares. Anyway, I speak Irish and hang out with the more snobbish of pagankind, so that has helped me get them right. Here are the ones that began as Celtic holidays, and therefore have weird phonetics.\n\nImbolc- pretty much like it looks, but your b sound should be kind of soft.\n\nBeltane: BEY-al-TIN-ah, almost but not quite a four syllable word. Nobody will kick your teeth in for pronouncing it bell-tane, though, \n\nLunassadh- LOOnassah. This is sometimes called Lammas, in which case it should be pronounced LAHmahs.\n\nSamhain- SAHwen. this is the one that WILL get your teeth kicked in at a pagan gathering if you get it wrong. Since there is no W in the langauge that gave us this word, mh stands in for the sound.\n\nThe others are not of Celtic origin, and therefore have names that are a lot less tricky. I've yet to overhear anyone mispronounce Yule, for example.
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You first need to know how to pronounce the sounds...\na - as in Awe \ni - eel\nu - ooh\ne - as in Egg\no - as in Over\n\nThen add the consanants after them and you will have the alphabet.... k, s, t, n, h, m, r, g, z, d, b, p, l, etc.\n   For the 'y' sounds... just YA, YU, YO    And for the 'w' sounds just WA and WO - as in Over.\n   There are a few differences... 'si' is SHI (with shhh sound), 'ti' is CHI (with 'ch' sound), 'tu' is TSU (with 'ts' sound - not 't' then 's', but together like a backwards 'st'), 'hu' is FU (with just the pushing of breath, no 'ffff' sound really), all 'R' sounds are like those in spanish, blurred l'r sound.... Ringo, Rodregez, etc.  \n\n(pronunciation written)\nJapanese has an alaphabet called hiragana.  Below will have pronuncation and then hiragan written...\n\nohaio gozai-mas - good morning --- o-ha-i-o go-za-i-ma-su\n\nkan-ban-wa - good evening ------------- ko-n-ba-n-wa\n\nnani - what --------------- na-ni\n\nari-ga-to(w) - thank you  -------------  a-ri-ga-to-u\n\ndo-i-tashi-mashi-te - your welcom. --------------- do-i-ta-shi-ma-shi-te\n\njya-ne - bye (between friends)\n\nHope that helps.
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♡I live in Japan and some of the words we use for "father" are "otousan" お父さん, "papa", "chichi" 父, "youfu" 養父  for foster/adoptive father. For "dad or daddy" the word "papa" is usually used. Hope this helps! Good luck learning Japanese. Gambate ne!♡
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I'll try to answer, Latin is one language and Spanish is another, however 'a' in latin is the first letter of the alphabet and means the beginning. Now in Spanish 'a' is a vocal and it's also a preposition in other words it connects words as we do in English, like I am going to eat, in Spanish would be voy a comer, in this case the to in English is replaced by the 'a' in Spanish, I hope this be of help to your project..☺
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You really need the phonetic alphabet to accurately answer this one, but here I go:\nupside down w,the vowel for short I and an N. Phonetically it would sound like win.