Pronunciation guide to Civ city names?

[vhhawk]

Is there a pronunciation guide to Civ city names somewhere here? If not, it would be a good resource to have. I was just listening to quill18's latest Persia LP and googling for the pronunciation of Pasargadae, then Susa, then Almaty.

 

[FeiLing]

google/wikipedia shall be a good source for this I heard.

 

[cain3456]

In the days before the Soviet Union broke up, Almaty was called Alma-Ata.

 

[Flying Mathias]

Not sure if you mispronounced Seoul, but I kept mispronouncing it until I saw it in a news story.

It's pronounced soul, not see-ol, like I thought It was.

 

[StormEye]

As following in the Flying Mathias's example, Korean leader's voice actor is not a native Korean speaker. He pronounces Korean as if it an ignorant Foreigner (from Korean's point of view) mocking Koreans (again, from Korean's point of view) unintentionally. Its similar how most official pronunciation guide for Hyundai was COMPLETELY off, until recent years.

I'm sure there are other screwed up pronounciation in CiV in other civs as well, when the narration or the voice actor of a leader speaks.