This is my friend's last name. He is from Eastern Europe and it makes him mad that the teachers have hard time pronouncing his last name. If it is hard, which part? Please let me know, thanks
2007-03-26 14:12:12 · 6 answers · asked by timekiller 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
It's not hard. Americans will not make any effort to deal with anything out of the ordinary when it comes to words, basically.
And also, they are crippled by lack of exposure to anything different.
I worked in a place where there were lots of foreign doctors, one of whom was Dr. Zvereva. People said zuh ver ba. They could say there's very, so they could indeed say the zv sound fine, but they just would not even try saying the woman's name right. Well, just to start right out with the zv sound, jeez, sooo hard.....
2007-03-26 14:28:15 · answer #1 · answered by sonyack 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hiwrenko, not to hard, but teachers r morons ive seen one turn zigler onto zigger
2007-03-26 21:50:40 · answer #2 · answered by rawr! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you sound it out it seems rather straigh forward to pronounce.... HI....WRENKO
2007-03-26 21:21:06 · answer #3 · answered by BlackSwan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i can pronounce it easy.
2007-03-26 21:19:35 · answer #4 · answered by page starshiine.™ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2007-03-26 21:19:04 · answer #5 · answered by robotloserr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. is it chinese???? like hi-wren-ko?
2007-03-26 21:45:30 · answer #6 · answered by homie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋