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November 14, 2004, 02:11:04 PM »
Grand_Duke_Alexei
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Pronounciation
I can never pronounce anything right, does anyone know how to pronounce the following words?
Mme
Alexandrovna
Pavlovna
Petrograd
Vyrubova
Feodorovna
Hesse
Hohenzollern
Ural Mountains (just Ural, I can pronounce mountains
)
Dagmar
Constantine
Constantinovich
Kyril
Pavlovich
I'll probably add some more later.
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November 14, 2004, 02:43:50 PM »
LisaDavidson
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Re: Pronounciation
Mme - Mah - damn
Alexandrovna - Alek -san - drove - nah
Pavlovna - Pav - lov - nah
Petrograd - Pe - tro - grahd
Vyrubova - Veer - oo - bove - a
Feodorovna - Fee - oh - door - ov - nah
Hesse - Hess (rhymes with yes)
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November 14, 2004, 02:45:58 PM »
LisaDavidson
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Re: Pronounciation
Hohenzollern - ho - hen - zoe - learn
Ural Mountains (just Ural, I can pronounce mountains ) Your - ahl
Dagmar - Dahl - mar
Constantine - con - stan - teen
Constantinovich = con - stand - tin - ovich
Kyril - keer - ill
Pavlovich - pav - lo -vich
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November 14, 2004, 02:47:41 PM »
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Re: Pronounciation
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I can never pronounce anything right, does anyone know how to pronounce the following words?
Hohenzollern
Ural Mountains (just Ural, I can pronounce mountains
)
Dagmar
Constantine
Constantinovich
Kyril
Pavlovich
I'll probably add some more later.
I'll do my best to make it clear (it's hard to spell out the phonetically):
Hohenzollern: hoe-en-zoll-urn
Dagmar: Dag-marr
Constantine: kon-stan-teen (I've also heard kon-stan-tine)
Constantinovich: kon-stan-tin-oh-vich
Kyril: keer-ill
Pavlovich: pav-low-vich
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November 14, 2004, 10:19:46 PM »
Olga
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Re: Pronounciation
Alexandrovna
Ah-lyek-sahn-drov-nah.
Pavlovna
Pahv-lov-nah.
Petrograd
Pyet-ro-grat.
Vyrubova
Vi (like the i in bit)-roo-bova.
Feodorovna
Fyo-dor-ov-nah.
Ural
OO-rahl.
Constantine
Kon-stahn-teen.
Constantinovich
Kon-stahn-teen-o-veech.
Kyril
Kee-reel
Pavlovich
Pahv-lo-veech.
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November 17, 2004, 11:23:28 AM »
Lisa
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Re: Pronounciation
Mme= Madame
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November 17, 2004, 01:03:36 PM »
Alexa
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Re: Pronounciation
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Mme= Madame
I know it's been a long time since I took HS French, but I thought "Mme" was mademoiselle.
Alexa
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November 17, 2004, 01:08:27 PM »
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Re: Pronounciation
Mlle = Mademoiselle.
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November 17, 2004, 01:14:36 PM »
Alexa
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Re: Pronounciation
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Mlle = Mademoiselle.
See, I
knew
there was a reason I got booted from French Honors my Junior year.
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November 17, 2004, 03:44:58 PM »
Annie
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Re: Pronounciation
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Vyrubova - Veer - oo - bove - a
Hesse - Hess (rhymes with yes)
Thanks, I always see Anna V.'s name as 'vurbova' so I got the extra syllable now!
And Hess, all these years I thought it was Hessy. There was an old woman who lived near my Grandmother and her last name was Hesse and everyone called her Mrs. Hessy, and she never said it was wrong. Silly Americans!
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November 17, 2004, 03:51:42 PM »
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Re: Pronounciation
Actually, in German, Hesse is pronounced "Hess'-uh" stress on first syllable.
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November 18, 2004, 12:18:51 PM »
Johnny
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Re: Pronounciation
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I can never pronounce anything right, does anyone know how to pronounce the following words?
Mme
Alexandrovna
Pavlovna
Petrograd
Vyrubova
Feodorovna
Hesse
Hohenzollern
Ural Mountains (just Ural, I can pronounce mountains
)
Dagmar
Constantine
Constantinovich
Kyril
Pavlovich
OK, it seems that I have a lot of work to do here. A major part of pronouncing a name correctly is to stress the right syllable which nobody has dealt with yet.
By the way Grand_Duke, do you want the English pronunciation or the Russian pronunciation?
Anyways, let's see:
Mme=ma-DAHM
Alexandrovna=a-lyek-SAHN-druv-nuh
Pavlovna=PAHV-lov-nuh
Petrograd=pyetr-uh-GRAHD
Vyrubova=VIY-roo-buh-vuh
Feodorovna=FYO-duh-ruv-nuh
Hesse=HES-suh like Mess sir(This is a German name)
Hohenzollern=HO-hun-tso-learn
Ural =You-rul (in English), oo-RAHL (in Russian)
Dagmar=(this one I am not 100% sure. I looked it up. Apparently in German it is pronounced dag-marr, and in Danish dow-mer. I don't know which syllable is stressed).
Constantine=CON-stun-teen (in English), kan-stan-TEEN (in Russian)
Constantinovich=kan-stan-TEEN-uh-vich
Kyril=kee-REEL
Pavlovich=PAHV-luh-vich
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November 18, 2004, 02:19:08 PM »
Elisabeth
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Re: Pronounciation
Johnny, thanks for your list. I've always thought the stresses in Russian one of the most difficult aspects of learning that language. (Only one syllable per word is stressed in Russian - unlike in English, where you have primary, secondary, even tertiary stresses - in Russian you just have to memorize each stress, although as you go along you discover certain recurring patterns, in verbs for example.) Anyway, great list, I'm sure it will be of tremendous help to all of us who are non-native speakers.
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November 18, 2004, 09:48:47 PM »
Val289
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Re: Pronounciation
Thanks everyone for posting. It's always good to know the proper pronunciations for places, people and things
- esp. for us who only speak one language that isn't Russian !
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November 19, 2004, 10:03:40 AM »
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Re: Pronounciation
and BTW, the word is
proNUNciation
NOT proNOUNciation.
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