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.
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.