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[–] Persi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The Wikipedia entry has a pronunciation guide:

English: [bɑːrsəˈloʊnə]

Catalan: [bəɾsəˈlonə]

The first a is a schwa and the o isn't rounded. Honestly, it looks quite similar to English, to the point where there might be some English dialect that sounds exactly like that.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 0 points 1 day ago

Having heard native speakers say it many times, this post is mostly showing the limitations of IPA because... yeah, no, not really.