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So many country names in English end in the letter a. How should those be pronounced? List country names that end in A in English in the comments!
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Here we are in my bathroom for an English lesson.
A lot of the country names end in the letter A, in American English those are all schwa.
So for example, we have China, ə.
We have Russia, ə.
We have Indonesia, we have Australia which sound similar to Austria, and as a kid I sometimes got that mixed up.
You probably can’t see Austria from there can you?
It’s very small compared to Australia.
Let’s see, we have India, ə.
We have Libya, ə.
Romania, ə.
Angola
We got Nicaragua, ə.
Argentina, ə.
So many country names end in the letter A, in American English we pronounce that as a quick unstressed schwa, ə.
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