How do you pronounce the surnames "Ng" and "Nguyen"?
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"nahng" or "nawng" and "new yen"
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I think it could also be interpreted as a "noi" or "noy" sound. I am trying to learn vietnamese, and thats how it has been represented to me even though... I think Ng would be pronounced "ing". The noy would be in the Nguyen. I think.
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My dad told my that nguyen is said "when." He has taught MANY people with that last name. I think he would know.
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Ng = "Way" Nguyen = "Wen"
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Ng= ING Nguyen= NWHEN
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Wikipedia provides ample information on the exact pronunciation of Nguyen (including the pronunciation of the "ng" sound. Apparently Nguyen is the most common surname in Vietnam. QUOTE: "The pronunciation of Nguyá»…n can be approximated by English speakers as "win"." SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen#Pronunciation
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I have a friend named Dat Nguyen, and he pronounces his last name "WHEN"----I dont know about the others.
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say ''Enguyen'' it'S easy, try it...
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Ng is "ing" or "eng," but the vowel is smaller, tighter, and shorter than it would be in English. Hearing a Chinese speaker, you hear less distinction between a short e and a short i than you do hearing an English-language speaker. You really have to listen, to hear the difference between "chin" and "chen." (And then there are the tones, which are a whole other difficulty for English speakers.) Nguyen does sound like a lot like "wen," but try also making the sound "ng" before the "w" sound. Don't make a "g" sound as part of it - the sound is like the "ng" in "singer," not the "ng" in "finger." It's easy: "ngwen." At the beginning of a word, "ngw" works the way "sw" does, but we're not used to "ngw" starting a word in English. (Other languages have MANY sounds/phonemes that English doesn't contain and we therefore don't develop the ear for.)
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Ng = Eng... as in England
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My asian in-laws don't correct me whan I say "Ing" and "Noo-yen" so I think that's at least close.
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I work with someone whose last name is Nguyen and she pronounces it Nuwhen
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I had an employee once with the last name Nguyen and he said it was pronounced sounding like " When".
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I've always heard it pronounced "when". I work with a Chinese man with the last name of Ngai...try that one! He pronounces it "I", but I just call him Chino, unless we're being professional.
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NG = erng or urng - thats how i used to tell people to say it. It annoyed me when it was pronounced "Ning" coz it just wasnt right.
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I am vietnamese and if you're not a native vietnamese speaker then the easiest way (but still incorrect) is "when". It's not really all that close to the correct vietnamese pronunciation, but we know that people have a hard time pronouncing it correctly so we accept a wide variety of incorrect pronunciations of "nguyen". I'm not a linguistics major and wouldn't know how to break down the phonetics. However, being fluent in english, I don't think there is (or at least a well known one) an english equivalent of the sounds needed to say the words correctly.
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