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"Non-English" -> Mainland Chinese. Well, it's a start I guess. Probably worth adding Vietnamese considering how few people in the US know how to pronounce "Ngu

"Non-English" -> Mainland Chinese. Well, it's a start I guess. Probably worth adding Vietnamese considering how few people in the US know how to pronounce "Nguyen".

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alexfromapex 5y ago
Thought the same, would like to know how to pronounce some Polish and other Scandinavian and European pronunciations as well.
SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
That’s the one I looked for on the list. I knew a guy that went by “Win”, is it always that?
tdeck 5y ago
Personally I can more or less do Nguyen but I still don't know how to pronounce Huynh.
axaxs 5y ago
Ng is a sound most Americans cannot make, including myself. I just say 'wen' now, which is a step up from my initial 'engooyin'.
- blackshaw 5y ago
  The "ng" sound exists in English, it's just that we don't have it at the beginning of words like Vietnamese does. Say "singer", then say it again without the "si". Congratulations - you know how to pronounce a word that starts with "ng".
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wink 5y ago
Be careful though, not too long ago I watched a YouTube video in very demeaning tone of how to not offend people yadda yadda, but it turns out they pronounced it completely differently than a guy from school pronounced his own family name. (He was born there and emigrated, so not some generations-old mishmash).
akdor1154 5y ago
Vietnamese is great, it's another really regular latinization scheme. A few things are a little bit different from your default English interpretation of letters, but all vowels etc are completely predictable (... once you know the rules). Unfortunately all the helpful diacritics telling you exactly how to pronounce things normally get left off names in an English context. :(
zamadatix 5y ago
The one thing I've learned about pronouncing Nguyen is that everybody agrees English speakers pronounce it wrong. And when I say everybody agrees I mean you can't find an example of somebody saying it where there isn't further debate that example is also incorrect somehow. Typically because it's an anglicized version but also debates on dialects. At this point I'm not sure there is an always "right" way to say that name in an English context even if there is a "correct" way it should be said.

"Non-English" -> Mainland Chinese. Well, it's a start I guess. Probably worth adding Vietnamese considering how few people in the US know how to pronounce "Nguyen".

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alexfromapex 5y ago

Thought the same, would like to know how to pronounce some Polish and other Scandinavian and European pronunciations as well.

SV_BubbleTime 5y ago

That’s the one I looked for on the list. I knew a guy that went by “Win”, is it always that?

tdeck 5y ago

Personally I can more or less do Nguyen but I still don't know how to pronounce Huynh.

axaxs 5y ago

Ng is a sound most Americans cannot make, including myself. I just say 'wen' now, which is a step up from my initial 'engooyin'.

blackshaw 5y ago
The "ng" sound exists in English, it's just that we don't have it at the beginning of words like Vietnamese does. Say "singer", then say it again without the "si". Congratulations - you know how to pronounce a word that starts with "ng".
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wink 5y ago

Be careful though, not too long ago I watched a YouTube video in very demeaning tone of how to not offend people yadda yadda, but it turns out they pronounced it completely differently than a guy from school pronounced his own family name. (He was born there and emigrated, so not some generations-old mishmash).

akdor1154 5y ago

Vietnamese is great, it's another really regular latinization scheme. A few things are a little bit different from your default English interpretation of letters, but all vowels etc are completely predictable (... once you know the rules). Unfortunately all the helpful diacritics telling you exactly how to pronounce things normally get left off names in an English context. :(

zamadatix 5y ago

The one thing I've learned about pronouncing Nguyen is that everybody agrees English speakers pronounce it wrong. And when I say everybody agrees I mean you can't find an example of somebody saying it where there isn't further debate that example is also incorrect somehow. Typically because it's an anglicized version but also debates on dialects. At this point I'm not sure there is an always "right" way to say that name in an English context even if there is a "correct" way it should be said.