Someone please explain "Nguyen"

[SampSon]

I just pronounce it "hey you".

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: AgentUnknown
Nguyen is my last name. The name is famous now. No white person can pronounce it correctly. Just because u can't pronounce it, or b/c so many ppl have the same last name doesn't mean jack. Fvck all those who are frustrated by the name and think it should be pronounce a certain way. screw yourselves

Heh. For Duong. I get many different versions on how they say it.

Dwong
Du-wong
Ding-Dong
Young
Yaa--uung.
Dung.
Da-ung, or dong (sugar!!!)

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: darkxshade

Originally posted by: bmacd

Originally posted by: tfcmasta97
its kind of a mushed "Nyu-eeng."

then again im pretty whitewashed and i tend to mispronounce things.

to ricochet... no viets arent

like new-ing ?

-=bmacd=-

new egg?

lol...i like the progression

 

[dym]

Originally posted by: Triumph
It's generally unpronounceable by humans, much like most of Vietnamese.

Such a nice comment!!!

I'm Dym Nguyen, and I do appreciate it!!!

Nguyen

 

[vtqanh]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Hi, my name is Patricia and I'm from East Jabip. Since my native language uses characters that look nothing like English letters, I must transliterate the name into a similar English word, so I chose "Patricia". But the P and A are silent, the T is pronounced like a B, the I like a U, and the C I A like T U S. Sort of sounds like "Brutus" in English. Oh, and my last name is McKenzie and uses no letters.

Hope that makes sense to you.

actually, Nguyen is exactly how it is spelled in Vietnamese. The Vietnamese language uses the alphabet.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: vtqanh

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Hi, my name is Patricia and I'm from East Jabip. Since my native language uses characters that look nothing like English letters, I must transliterate the name into a similar English word, so I chose "Patricia". But the P and A are silent, the T is pronounced like a B, the I like a U, and the C I A like T U S. Sort of sounds like "Brutus" in English. Oh, and my last name is McKenzie and uses no letters.

Hope that makes sense to you.

actually, Nguyen is exactly how it is spelled in Vietnamese. The Vietnamese language uses the alphabet.

I did not know that. All I know is that right now I'd like to be lounging by a wet bar in a tropical lagoon, surrounded by hot chicks, sipping on whisky sours.

 

[feelingshorter]

Originally posted by: Ricemarine

Originally posted by: flawlssdistortn
new-yen?

1 syllable.

Some pronounce nyueen (exaggeration is the key).
Vietnamese pronounce wuyeeen

Sounds slurred, but hey.
Try to say my last name, Duong.
Only a few people can actually say it who aren't vietnamese.

quite right...and your name..Duong is pronouned like Young right?

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: vtqanh

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Hi, my name is Patricia and I'm from East Jabip. Since my native language uses characters that look nothing like English letters, I must transliterate the name into a similar English word, so I chose "Patricia". But the P and A are silent, the T is pronounced like a B, the I like a U, and the C I A like T U S. Sort of sounds like "Brutus" in English. Oh, and my last name is McKenzie and uses no letters.

Hope that makes sense to you.

actually, Nguyen is exactly how it is spelled in Vietnamese. The Vietnamese language uses the alphabet.

I did not know that. All I know is that right now I'd like to be lounging by a wet bar in a tropical lagoon, surrounded by hot chicks, sipping on whisky sours.

How could people not know... The french colonized the Vietnamese for a long time... and the French used the alphabet.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: Ricemarine

Originally posted by: flawlssdistortn
new-yen?

1 syllable.

Some pronounce nyueen (exaggeration is the key).
Vietnamese pronounce wuyeeen

Sounds slurred, but hey.
Try to say my last name, Duong.
Only a few people can actually say it who aren't vietnamese.

Let me try: Dong!

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: Ricemarine

Originally posted by: flawlssdistortn
new-yen?

1 syllable.

Some pronounce nyueen (exaggeration is the key).
Vietnamese pronounce wuyeeen

Sounds slurred, but hey.
Try to say my last name, Duong.
Only a few people can actually say it who aren't vietnamese.

Let me try: Dong!

:laugh: anyone else?

 

[ElFenix]

for the nguyen?

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
for the nguyen?

For my last name.

Duong.

 

[caivoma]

Originally posted by: ricochet

Originally posted by: jspeicher
every vietnamese at work has that last name, well...maybe just 10 of them....why is this?

It's because Vietnamese are incestous. Duh.

It is because you are an dumbass and what is incestous?

 

[InlineFour]

it's pronounced "win".

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: caivoma

Originally posted by: ricochet

Originally posted by: jspeicher
every vietnamese at work has that last name, well...maybe just 10 of them....why is this?

It's because Vietnamese are incestous. Duh.

It is because you are an dumbass and what is incestous?

Something along the lines of _____.

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: feelingshorter

Originally posted by: Ricemarine

Originally posted by: flawlssdistortn
new-yen?

1 syllable.

Some pronounce nyueen (exaggeration is the key).
Vietnamese pronounce wuyeeen

Sounds slurred, but hey.
Try to say my last name, Duong.
Only a few people can actually say it who aren't vietnamese.

quite right...and your name..Duong is pronouned like Young right?

Yeah. but people pronounce it EXACTLY as Young. Which is incorrect.

 

[DVK916]

Originally posted by: Ricemarine

Originally posted by: feelingshorter

Originally posted by: Ricemarine

Originally posted by: flawlssdistortn
new-yen?

1 syllable.

Some pronounce nyueen (exaggeration is the key).
Vietnamese pronounce wuyeeen

Sounds slurred, but hey.
Try to say my last name, Duong.
Only a few people can actually say it who aren't vietnamese.

quite right...and your name..Duong is pronouned like Young right?

Yeah. but people pronounce it EXACTLY as Young. Which is incorrect.

I know some Viets say your name sort of like Zoung instead of Young.

 

[oboeguy]

Would someone please at least partially clear this up with an IPA transciption? Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[AAman]

I'm leaving for Vietnam on Saturday, I'll sit on the beach for ya, stare at the hotties, and ask every one of them if she can teach me how to pronounce her last name...show me how your lips and tongue pronounce that again...one more time, if you don't mind

The French created the writing system in order to use the Roman alphabet (some missionary I think, getting old and forgetting these things) and to replace Chinese characters....really helped them in setting up the colonial system there and spreading Catholicism.

Personally, I go with 'new-yen', or 'nuh-win', but hey I only speak some Chinese, my Viet is absolutely atrocious. My French is barely any better, people get a great laugh out of me in Saigon.

 

[AgentUnknown]

Originally posted by: ricochet

Originally posted by: jspeicher
every vietnamese at work has that last name, well...maybe just 10 of them....why is this?

It's because Vietnamese are incestous. Duh.

That an idiotic statement.

The name is pronounced NGUYEN and I will say and pronounce it the way I want it b/c it's my last name. Fvck off.

 

[Xylitol]

Its becuase many immigrants from Asia could not spell well.
For example -
Kim is supposed to something like Keem

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Originally posted by: Xylitol
Its becuase many immigrants from Asia could not spell well.
For example -
Kim is supposed to something like Keem

we come from isolated villages what u expect

 

[Xylitol]

Originally posted by: AznAnarchy99

Originally posted by: Xylitol
Its becuase many immigrants from Asia could not spell well.
For example -
Kim is supposed to something like Keem

we come from isolated villages what u expect

Thanks I'm korean

 

[JinLien]

Most common Vietnamese surnames are borrowed from the Chinese.

Nyg is a common Chinese sound (also is a last name) that are in use in parts of Asia.

Nguyen is pronounce exactly the way it is spell as 99.99% of the Vietnamese words, however the South, parts of the North, and Central Vietnam bastardized it because they are too lazy to pronounce it correctly as it is intended.

Vietnamese are so lazy that they drop characters or part of a word so they can talk quicker such as, Cali for California, or pound as pow (it is too much work to pronounce the d at the end).

South Vietnamese pronounce tr as g, and v as d.

PS. Most educated Vietnamese do not speak with the speech impediment that plagues the common population.

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: AznAnarchy99

Originally posted by: Xylitol
Its becuase many immigrants from Asia could not spell well.
For example -
Kim is supposed to something like Keem

we come from isolated villages what u expect

More like Geem or Gim or in between. I knew a korean dude though his last name was Geem.

How do you pronounce Thuyen?