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