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Part 3: Pronouncing Names... How to Get it Right

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  • Last updated May 22, 2023 at 8:55 AM by sweethometc
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You have two seconds to make it count. It’s a gift they’ll remember for a long time.

From the Episode:

Gonzalez describes several “tools” or strategies to help you get it right.
“Whatever you do, do something.  You have two seconds to make it count.  It’s a gift they’ll remember for a long time.”-Jennifer Gonzalez

There are many resources available that provide audio clips of pronunciations.  While "hearnow.com" wasn’t available when making this Digital Badge course, several other resources were.  After a quick search, many popped up to try.

Listen Here:

https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/gift-of-pronunciation/
  1. Click on the episode link above.
  2. Listen to the segment (17:30 - 23:17)

Evidence of Learning:

  1. What do you Think??  EXPLORE these resources:  
    1. https://inogolo.com/
    2. https://www.thenameengine.com/ (famous names)
    3. https://www.howtopronounce.com/  ;
  2. Now What??  PRACTICE: Try to search for student names that are currently in your class.  After several attempts, what is the success rate?  Can you add to the databases?  Would you recommend any of these or other similar resources?

All posted evidence

Websites

1.     I have to agree- I had the most luck with the 3rd resource How to Pronounce.  It was very user friendly. I was able to find a few of my students’ names like Daniyah & Chigozie. It was nice to see the option to add names into the database and even to add your own pronunciation of the name/term.  

This resource could be helpful especially in teaching Global History with pronouncing names of key people/leaders or groups & vocabulary terms in lieu of “Americanizing” it.  I typed in some terms we recently used in my class such as Upanishads (for Hinduism) & Shi Huangdi (for the Chinese Empires) and was pleasantly surprised they were in the database.  I definitely would recommend this site. 

The 2nd resource of Name Engine was also of value.  It was interesting to see where students’ names were found (NBA, NCAA, etc.) and even famous individuals who share the same first name.
cutzig Almost 4 years ago

https://www.howtopronounce.com/ for the win!

  1. The 3rd resource was by far the most user friendly for me. Being able to sift through the sub groups was nice and made the seek process pretty quick.
2. I found a students name that is very challenging to me, so this made me smile that I have a resource that can help. I wonder how students would feel adding their names to a database in an effort to have their names and everyones names pronounced correctly? Even on a smaller scale, after a student tells me their name at the end of class, I will make a quick recording on my phone of me saying it, so that way I can revisit it (I am shocked I have never thought of that to this point!)

dtracz About 4 years ago

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1.      I found the howtopronounce.com website to be the most user friendly and helpful. This allows you to join/create communities for collaboration and questions.  You can search the names by nation for more specific pronunciation. And you can create an audio collection for future use and reference.  I thought this was the most helpful site by far and I have never seen any of its kind. I will for sure use this in the future. 

2.     While browsing the site I searched three student names I struggled with this year. They were Xici, Mihiukumar, and Obaidi. None of the names came up in the general search or when specifying the nation of origin.  Despite this names can be added.  So I still fine these search engines for pronunciation helpful.  I would definitely recommend the howtopronounce.com site to colleagues for the reasons specified in question 1.
dliberta About 4 years ago