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Re: Which do you like as names?
I like Victoria! I prefer Viktoriya, but I am just biased Slavic person.
How do you say Kyiv and Kiev as English speaker? Here is ki-yeevw and kee-yeef. What is Vilnius and Bratislava associations?
I personally like Bratislava very much, it has very cool meaning ("glory of our brothers"). What is bad association in English?

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Something like ki-yeev? Or kee-eev.
Kiev I've heard more like kee-ehv / kee-yev / kee-yevf.Brat means rude child, or pronounced a different way, sausage.Vilnius reminds me of villain/villainous, but that one's more distant an association and partly just because vil*n is an uncommon letter/sound combination.

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