Jenny, To write the prounciation of my name was a more difficult task than I thought. An American collague of me said my first name could be written "Kó-oo-ta". He was not able to write the pronounciation of my last name at all.
I asked also an England-born friend of me, who has lived long time in Finland and speaks almost perfect Finnish. He said the pronounciation is very easy to write with the International Phonetic Alphabet: k/ɔ/u/t/a r/æ/s/æ/n/e/n. That's what I meant when I wrote that in Finnish all the letters are spoken so as they are. However, he said if one cannot read phonetic alphabets, the pronounciation is impossible to write fully correctly, but he gave the following advices: FIRST NAME (Kouta): 'kou' is almost like an exclamation "Ho!" or "No!" or "Oh!" but 'k' instead of 'h', 'n' etc. 'ta' is as you would say it. LAST NAME (Räsänen): 'räs' is like "has" but 'r' instead of 'h'. 'än' is almost like the article "an". 'en' is as you would say it. It would be highly interesting to hear, how you would pronounce my name with these advices! ;) - Kouta On Nov 15, 1:06 am, [email protected] wrote: > Kouta, > Oh, by the way, how do you pronounce your name? -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
