Do you know how to pronounce the composer Karel Husa's last name? Would it sound more like Hoosa (making the same sound as the word "who") or more like Hyoosa (making the same sound as the word "human") or something else? It's a Czech name...
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I've have always heard it as Whosa...
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Outside of English, 'u' is NEVER pronounced 'yoo',. but always simply 'oo'. In Czech 'H' is quite a strong, almost gutteral sound, similar to the 'ch in 'Bach' or in the Scottish word 'Loch', although close to a gutteral 'g' sound (therefore, a little softer than 'ch'). The Czech capital Prague in Czech is spelt Praha and is pronounced almost as if it has a 'g' in the middle, though with the same gutteral inflection I have described above for 'Husa'. Another useful note is that, in Czech, the stress is always on the first syllable, no matter how many syllables there are. I hope this helped a little.
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