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How do you pronounce "قلب" in Farsi?
"ghalb" — start with a gargled 'gh' sound made at the back of the throat (a bit like a soft French 'r'), then finish with "alb" as in English 'bulb' without the 'u'.
ghalb
One syllable; the final -lb cluster is pronounced together, as in English 'bulb'.
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قلبش خیلی مهربان است.
Ghalb-ash kheyli mehrabān ast.
His heart is very kind.
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قلبش خیلی مهربان است ("His heart is very kind") attaches the possessive -ash to قلب ("his/her heart"), with خیلی ("very") intensifying مهربان ("kind") before the closing verb است.
Where English speakers slip
Pronouncing ق like the English letter combination 'q' (a 'kw' sound) is the classic error — it isn't a 'k' sound at all. In everyday Tehrani speech it's a voiced, gargled sound from the back of the throat, much softer than any English consonant.