Radhi: I believe Melissa meant the letter ح :) When Arabic learners start to pronounce the Arabic alphabet, the letter ح is among the hardest letters; the sound of it comes from the throat and they don't have anything in English that sounds like it, so it comes out as the sound of H. Actually ح and ع can be challenging, and other letters might be too but it depends on the learner's native language.

Melissa: my only recommendation after you were taught from where the sound of ح comes from, is to keep training and saying it out loud, eventually it'll comes out in the right way :)

Here is a video showing the difference between the letter هـ and ح 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeyVjaWD6-U

Like what was mentioned in the video, هـ is like the normal English H sound like in "Hello".

As for ح, there is more strength required. Try at first pronouncing هـ, keep doing it by pushing the air inside you out, and at the same time try to make your gorge close down slowly, you'll get into a level where you pronounce a "dry" H sound, that's actually the letter ح.

Here is a trick to help you with the pronunciation : I'm guessing it's getting cold these days, especially in Canada :) So, imagine your hangs are frozen, so you want to warm them up. You put them close to your mouth, and you start blowing "hot air" coming from the gorge, the sound you're making isn't هـ it's actually ح, so try to pronounce it a little bit harder, and you'll get your ح sound.

Best of luck !

Mumtaz to the rescue once again, her answers are always so kind and perfect too !!!

I think she is referring to the kh sound, like sabah el kheir, which is not so easy for native English speakers, not is 'ah-ain' sound.

In French no matter how hard I try I can not say the word ' rue ', that nasally type of sound is not part of our language.

Egyptians have a hell of a time with 'th', which is why I am sympathic towards them and rather than torture them trying to say Elizabeth, which they always pronounce as ' Elizabess ',  I just let them all call me Leeza or Aziza and everybody is happy !!!

:-)