Over the years I have seen many struggle with pronunciations of Saudi Arabian city names (I was one of them as well, to an extent still am). One of the reasons why it continued for so long is maybe because no one corrected us.
The names of these cities in towns are in Arabic and like most non-Arabs we just read the English signboards and pronounce it as per the phonetic in English. While most pronounce names of big cities correctly, it is the Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities and towns that us non-Arabs mispronounce.
There are so many letters in Arabic that have no equal counterpart in English thus resulting in our wrong pronunciations. Then there is the difference of intonations, stresses, tones, accents and enunciations. On top of that in Arabic there are masculine and feminine nouns which affect the phonetic of the word. Let’s not even go on identifying if a city’s name is masculine or feminine. For the time being let’s just stick to the correct pronunciations.
![10 Places In Saudi Non-Arabs Mispronounce 21 TAIF c22646dd79aa3ae06j](http://destinationksa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/TAIF-c22646dd79aa3ae06j.jpg)
![10 Places In Saudi Non-Arabs Mispronounce 22 Khamis_mushait](http://destinationksa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Khamis_mushait-1.jpg)
![10 Places In Saudi Non-Arabs Mispronounce 23 NAMAS_ea054680c0 NAMAS](http://destinationksa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/NAMAS_ea054680c0-NAMAS.jpg)
![10 Places In Saudi Non-Arabs Mispronounce 24 TABUK 4016794323_6b0f1fff6f](http://destinationksa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/TABUK-4016794323_6b0f1fff6f.jpg)
![10 Places In Saudi Non-Arabs Mispronounce 25 TAYMA Al-Naslaa-2](http://destinationksa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/TAYMA-Al-Naslaa-2.jpg)
![10 Places In Saudi Non-Arabs Mispronounce 26 ARAR 4038675308_e63a45598a_o](http://destinationksa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ARAR-4038675308_e63a45598a_o.jpg)
![10 Places In Saudi Non-Arabs Mispronounce 27 sakaka02 saq](http://destinationksa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/sakaka02-saq.jpg)
![10 Places In Saudi Non-Arabs Mispronounce 28 ushaiger-9y](http://destinationksa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ushaiger-9y.jpg)
![10 Places In Saudi Non-Arabs Mispronounce 29 Qurayyat saudi](http://destinationksa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Qurayyat-saudi.jpg)
![10 Places In Saudi Non-Arabs Mispronounce 30 YANBU_983fc0bcb5_b](http://destinationksa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/YANBU_983fc0bcb5_b.jpg)
There are many more that can perhaps be added to this list, let us know in the comments below.