{"id":1589,"date":"2012-09-15T12:47:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T12:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2012-09-06T21:49:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T21:49:28","slug":"asian-name-pronunciation-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/15\/asian-name-pronunciation-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian name pronunciation guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a multi-cultural society, so in our everyday lives, it\u2019s likely we\u2019ll encounter someone with an unfamiliar name.<\/p>\n<p>If you work in higher education, it\u2019s likely that you\u2019ll meet international students all day long. So you might become familiar with how to pronounce certain names&#8230; but what about others?<\/p>\n<p>California State Polytechnic University in America has produced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csupomona.edu\/~pronunciation\/japanese.html\">handy website<\/a> if you\u2019re not sure about pronunciation of Asian names. It also links to resources for help with names from around the world. Each page is linked to a particular language and has helpful hints as well as phonetic pronunciations of particular common names. You can also search the site for something specific.<\/p>\n<p>Have you tried the website? It seem that it hasn&#8217;t been updated for a while &#8211; what do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a multi-cultural society, so in our everyday lives, it\u2019s likely we\u2019ll encounter someone with an unfamiliar name. If you work in higher education, it\u2019s likely that you\u2019ll meet international students all day long. So you might become familiar with how to pronounce certain names&#8230; but what about others? California State Polytechnic University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,83],"tags":[1154,51,1156,815,1155],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-pronunciation","tag-asian-names","tag-language","tag-name-pronunciation","tag-names","tag-pronunication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}