Re: How to pronounce last names
in reply to a message by acnecyst
I always heard nuh-GWIN, but I'm not sure.
We're all in the gutter, but some of us look at the stars.
~Oscar Wilde.
We're all in the gutter, but some of us look at the stars.
~Oscar Wilde.
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I don't know this particular name, but it is likely to be prenasalized stop /ⁿg/. It is the probably close to the sound in English finger, except in English, this combination doesn't appear syllable initially. So, one could start by realizing that one can keep humming a nasal like nnnnnnn without any other vowel, then think of saying nnnnnnguyen, and then shortening the initial sequence down so that the ng takes roughly the same time as a g would in that position.