Let's face it. All commentators, interviewers and journalists mispronounce names.
Especially long names in a language not their own or which have combinations of letters that don't seem to have enough vowels to be pronounceable.
Like
Ioulia CHTCHETININA
or
Dasa GRM
I wonder whether it would be possible to get files of skaters pronouncing their own names correctly, or failing that, of people who speak the same language and dialect they do pronouncing their names?
If there were clips of names like that on youtube, I would definitely link them into the OPs!
Do any of you have an idea of how that could easily be achieved?
Of course, no aide memoire would keep the Eurosport guys from mispronouncing names, but some of the rest of us would be grateful to know how names should be pronounced.
Especially long names in a language not their own or which have combinations of letters that don't seem to have enough vowels to be pronounceable.
Like
Ioulia CHTCHETININA
or
Dasa GRM
I wonder whether it would be possible to get files of skaters pronouncing their own names correctly, or failing that, of people who speak the same language and dialect they do pronouncing their names?
If there were clips of names like that on youtube, I would definitely link them into the OPs!
Do any of you have an idea of how that could easily be achieved?
Of course, no aide memoire would keep the Eurosport guys from mispronouncing names, but some of the rest of us would be grateful to know how names should be pronounced.