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When you hover over the name if the user provided it it will display names origin - poor UX sorry. I see that you are very conscious about pronunciation so for

When you hover over the name if the user provided it it will display names origin - poor UX sorry. I see that you are very conscious about pronunciation so for you it won't be a big problem most of the time. I suppose saying the name as close as possible is the aim of the page, nobody will expect foreign people to say it perfectly but it helps, like try saying as close as possible Grzegorz without hearing it first... I though about it like an aid for new starters, for preparation before zoom meetings etc.

schoen 6y ago
> I see that you are very conscious about pronunciation so for you it won't be a big problem most of the time. I still learned more from your site about how to pronounce Chinese <zh> than I knew before, and it's not as though I've never attempted to pronounce names containing it. :-) > When you hover over the name if the user provided it it will display names origin - poor UX sorry. Oh, I definitely didn't notice that. I guess I'd like to suggest that you require users to indicate it, again thinking about a name like Jan that could easily start with three drastically different consonants depending on what language it's in! > try saying as close as possible Grzegorz without hearing it first... I know there's something about <rz> in Polish that I don't expect, but I also don't know what it is! Yeah, that's a great example of how this could be useful. My intuition from English is like [ɡɝ'zɛɡɔɹz] which, now that I've listened to a Polish recording, is really really really far off. Even "Maciej" would have given me trouble before I'd heard people talking about Maciej Ceglowski.