If so, can you tell me what the story is with the Kh/R thing, please?
A friend of my husband is called Khaled. Perfectly normal, easily pronounced name, I thought. Except I was talking to a(n Arab) friend of Khaled tonight, and she pronounced his name something like Raalid.
Which reminded me of another friend-of-a-friend some years ago, whose name we pronounced Raa-doojj but the spelling of it was something like Khadajgi. Well, it wasn't that, but something like it.
Anyway...on to my question...is Kh pronounced like R in Arabic or ...what? Talk to me about the nuances of your language, please.
I'm Irish myself, so used to anglophones pondering how on earth "mh" is pronounced as a 'vee' sound (and "bh" is a very slight variation of that vee sound), for example.