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Names are important. It’s certainly understandable if someone makes a mistake the first time, though.
by thosakwe 8y ago
Names are important. It’s certainly understandable if someone makes a mistake the first time, though.
- koonsolo 8y agoBut some names are indeed impossible to pronounce for none-native speakers. In Flemish we have the name Geert, and I never heard any none-native speaker been able to properly say it. That 'G' sound that we make is not used anywhere else that I know of.
- droithomme 8y agoHere's a list of languages that supposedly also use the voiced velar fricative ɣ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_velar_fricative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_velar_fricative
- Grustaf 8y agoOk so practically speaking, if your name is Przybyszewski and you move to a country like China with a very simple phonetic structure, how could they pronounce your name? Before you answer, keep in mind that even smart dedicated Chinese people that study English for years have a hard time pronouncing a lot of words, the sound systems are simply too different.