(January 30, 2014 at 7:42 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:(January 30, 2014 at 7:40 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: People always say that when I phrase it like a challenge, lol. But there are no alphabets for the right pronunciation, so the spelling itself is misleading, and I don't know how to describe the pronunciation because there is no equivalent in english or any other languages I know. And it's not really inadequacy if you can't pronounce sounds you've never had to learned, it's to do with muscle memory, your tongue actually physically cannot produce the right sounds. You can train it to, has a certain amount of plasticity (learning capacity). Nor can you really distinguish different sounds in other languages if your language is less nuanced in that department. That's why when you learn new languages, people say you're saying it wrong but it sounds completely identical to you. And you have no idea what they're talking about. Like in the 70's show where Fez couldn't tell the difference between "ted" and "tad", I can't either.
Anyway, not sharing my name on a public forum, it's too unique, it's not going to blend in, it'll show up if I'm googled.
Well, since I guess its chinese, there are various romanization methods, of which I'm sure you know of.
Besides, you can never know without trying.
Yes there are, we use alphabets but alphabets aren't pronounced like they are in english.
You know what, I'll PM you the actual characters that you can chuck into google translate and it'll pronounce it for you. Try that. But you'd probably think you nailed it without a native speaker around to judge you. I'll pm it to you if you'll send me a recording of you trying to pronounce it
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