[dfee]

Here is a list of English words with two consecutive a’s: https://www.morewords.com/contains-by-length/aa

Despite having a cumulative 8 years of foreign language courses against three different languages, I have no clue how you’re expecting me to pronounce “paal”.

Is it “pal” - like friend / buddy? “Pail” - like something you’d carry water in? Something else?

[lgessler]

It's approximately same sound that's in "all": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_back_unrounded_vowel