Didn't I tell you to grab a damn dictionary? Hold on, I'll do it for you.


Tuvalu - [?tuv??lu] - TU-vuh-lu (the 'u' sound does not exist in English)
Kiribati - [?k??ri?bɑti, ?k??r??b?s] - kee-uh-ree-BAH-tee, or (apparently) kee-uh-ree-BASS (rhyming with 'class')
Sao Tome and Principe - [?sa? t??me? ?n 'print??pe] - SA-oh Toh-MAY en PRIN-tchi-pay
Guinea Bissau - [?g?nib??sa?] - GIN-ee-bi-SOU
Azerbaijan - [??z?ba??d?ɑ?n] - AZ-uh-BY-jahn
Guyana - [ga???n?] - guy-AN-uh


Took me five whole minutes.




You may be Canadian and raised in Brazil, but that doesn't mean you're pronouncing your own country's name right. Like I said above, it's ['k?n?d?] ("CAN-uh-duh") and [br??z?l] ("Bruh-ZIL"). Not Can-ih-dah, or Bra-zeal or whatever inaccurate pronounciation people are pulling out of their behinds in this thread. Phonetics isn't something that's open to interpretation or improvisation from whoever feels like weighing in with his own opinion on how things should sound, or his own dialect. It's one of the most complex fields of linguistics, and one of the most exact. Leave it to people who know what they're talking about.