How to pronounce Laska?

Oddly enough, but this word good sounded in Google and there isn't singing, stretching vowels unlike the song: http://translate.google.ru/?sugexp=chrome,mod%3D15...

click speaker sign in the lower right corner of russian field.

By the way, every noun and ajective have gender in russian language. It will be stange, if male dog will have female name ;-) Ласка is female gender.

All "a" like in "are".

Stress on first "a".

Look for example here at 2:34 ("Lechat lubov da laska", she is singing, so first "a" sounds much longer than in speech):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKe6S60Tux4

Rhymes with "asker" in a British accent.