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"KUH-tar".
The problem is there's no
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established English pronunciation of this Arabic
word. If you saw this country, you would know
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that Americans wouldn't say 'France' but they
would say 'France'. That's been established.
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The first thing is that we can imitate the
stress. So, it's first syllable stress.
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So "QAT-ar" would be more accurate than
"qa-TAR", which has second syllable stress.
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Qatar.
The first K sound, K/G sound,
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is made way down here.
kk, kk, kk.
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We make out K,
kk, kk, kk,
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more here.
The T, tt.
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But their T is
tt, tt, tt.
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The tongue tip doesn't come as far forward.
And the R of course, the classic American R,
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that you can hold out, rrr. They don't have that,
theirs is more of a flap, rr, rr, rr. Qatar.
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So, if you're not comfortable saying
Qatar, then I would suggest "KUH-tar".
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Those are all American sounds. They're probably
the closest approximation to the Arabic sounds.
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