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> non-Indo-European names Are Persian or Polish names easier than Hawaiian or Japanese?

• eru 12y ago
  German names are hard enough for monolingual English speakers.
  • ward 12y ago
    Yet to encounter a monolingual English speaker to be able to pronounce my first name "Ward" (Dutch speaking Belgian). Only one I know of was someone who had spent several years in Paris (so he knew French and wasn't actually in the monolingual category anymore). I recorded this one several years ago: http://wardje.eu/dll/ward.wav http://wardje.eu/dll/ward.wav Let's not even get started on my last name...
    • pavel_lishin 12y ago
      Wow, yup, that would definitely... take some practice to get right. I did something similar on YouTube, specifying the way I prefer Americans to pronounce my name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfTkEaZSMXo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfTkEaZSMXo