YAEPT: How you pronunce foreign place names
| From: | Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 21, 2007, 11:57 |
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Hi,
Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> schrieb:
> 1. Attempt to pronounce it as close to the native as
> possible
Which would be Beijing, /pæi_L.dz\IN_M/ according to my
Chinese dictionary.
> 2. Use English rules of pronunciation to read it [beIdZIN]
If speaking English, then yes.
> 4. Pronounce it otherwise?
German: Peking /"pe.kIN/
> Ditto for "Paris", "Seoul", "Kagoshima", "Iraq",
> "Madrid", "Havana", "São Paulo" etc.
German:
/pa."Ris/, /se."ul/, /ka.go.Si.ma/*, /i."Ra:k/, /ma."dRIt/,
/ha."vAna/, /sAU) "pAU)lo/
Carsten
*) Where goes the stress? Is it analogue to /hi."RO.Si.ma/
or is it /ka.go."Si.ma/? Where is that city, anyway? That's
by chance not the same as Hiroshima, or is it?
--
"Miranayam kepauara naranoaris." (Kalvin nay Hobbes)
Palayena, Sanam 16, 2316 ya 13:46:13 pd
(Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 12:27:27 pm)
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