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minus-squarePersi@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 day agoThe Wikipedia entry has a pronunciation guide: English: [bɑːrsəˈloʊnə] Catalan: [bəɾsəˈlonə] The first a is a schwa and the o isn’t rounded. Honestly, it looks quite similar to English, to the point where there might be some English dialect that sounds exactly like that.
minus-squareMudMan@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 day agoHaving heard native speakers say it many times, this post is mostly showing the limitations of IPA because… yeah, no, not really.
The Wikipedia entry has a pronunciation guide:
English: [bɑːrsəˈloʊnə]
Catalan: [bəɾsəˈlonə]
The first a is a schwa and the o isn’t rounded. Honestly, it looks quite similar to English, to the point where there might be some English dialect that sounds exactly like that.
Having heard native speakers say it many times, this post is mostly showing the limitations of IPA because… yeah, no, not really.