I like how they hear the correct pronunciation from the person and then double down on the Italian pronunciation. I swear it's the most Italian thing ever
I still have to find an English native speaker who can pronounce my name correctly (Gabriella). Even if they can say the final a properly, instead of pretending is not there, that double l is just impossible.
@@gabsie7224 isnt it gah-brie-el-uh? brie pronounced like the cheese. everyone in the US pronounces Gabriella like that. i think people might be accidentally reading it as Gabriel (gay-brie-uhl) somehow? dunno how you could miss the a otherwise.
That's rude as hell I'm sorry they said that. Your name is beautiful I would've never put the two together and as a Mexican I eat tortillas almost daily. What a bunch of A Holes. Very unique name I love it.
@@marthahawkinson-michau9611 I've met far more nice Karens than the current representations. I think it's pretty cruel. And with the beautiful name Isis. The media ruined that one.
Opposite problem, I live in the UK and I go by Grace here cause when I introduce myself as Grazia people ask me if my parents really named me "Thank you" 😵
I had to look it up "cachi de pepe" is a cheese and pepper pasta. Haha better your name sounds like cheese rather than plunger or something in Italian!
It's actually cacio e pepe (cacio is a cheese and pepper) but yes you're right 😂 she got lucky, if people wanted to be mean with her they could have said "like cachi" (pronounced CA like in cake and KI like in kid) it'd mean either "like the fruit cachi" and "how do you shit" 👀💀
I feel this one. I married a South African and her whole family insists my name is spelled "KC". So they just gave me a Tswana name that they call me-- Rapula.
My name is Cidalia (with an “S” sound). It’s Portuguese. Years ago, when I worked as a cashier, I had an Italian gentleman come through my register, look at my name tag and say my name “Chee-dahlia.” I kinda like it. 😂
I speak fluent English but even I would pronounce it like that if I met you in Italy haha i'd probably attempt a better pronunciation if I met you abroad though 😄
My name is super Norwegian (Synne, pronounced as sinner without an r) and I married a brit. After almost 3 years in England, people still joke that I'm a sin, the biggest sinner and anything in that word group. It would have been okay only if I wasn't Christian and go to church every week 😅
When I was in South Korea teaching, my name, Autumn, usually got heard or pronounced as orum. Well, my students would laugh and call me ice teacher. One day I got curious and looked up ice in phrasebook and saw Orum 😆
@@felissylvestris6557 it's really hard to explain over text, but when Korean people say my name, they use their way of pronouncing those letters. Hard t sounds have a r/l sound - cause Koreans don't really use a whole bunch of hard t sounds. The A in Autumn, rather than have a ah sound, usually gets turned into a oa sound. So when my name goes through a Korean filter, it usually become orum or oa-rum. It probably doesn't help I'm southern and sometimes my own hard t becomes closer to a d sound so, Audumn.
This is mean, but funny. My greek coworkers last name is Pissa. In german that sounds exactly like an insult. "Pisser" means something like someone that pee's.
I’m Mexican but I’m sorry I had to laugh 😭😭😭 Panka Bene. Don’t many people can’t pronounce my middle name ‘Guadalupe’ which is the Spanish name for the Virgin Mary, even the US has the Guadeloupe Islands 😭
@@junihase1496"pissa" is also pee (the substance) in Finnish and "to pee" (the verb) in Icelandic. Same root word as "piss" in English, obviously, and there are cognates in French and other Romance languages too.
Americans used to have a lot of trouble acknowledging Fiona as a name, let alone pronouncing it. But it's all been fine since the Shrek movie came out.
I live in Rwanda, Africa now and until I came here I thought the name “Brittany” had to be the easiest name…nope. They gave me a kinyarwanda name. It doesn’t bother me though. I like it. It took me a while to get their names down.
I was an exchange student in France for half a year and not a single native French person could ever pronounce my name right. Other exchange students from the farthest corners of the Earth could pronounce. Really annoying. They would read my name’s spelling, then pronounce it fanatically in French, and then repeat a French word that is not my name.
In grade 6 my french teacher would always frenchify my friend’s name. Their name is Chloe and she would always add an accented e to their name and my friend kept asking her to stop and she never did. I live in Canada though, not France
@@megansaneibingley8420 yeah that’s pretty messed up when you think about it. Your name is a symbol of identity and that teacher couldn’t even respect that.
In Italy I had to change my name to Cinzia. My name is Cynthia and when I would introduce myself they would be confused. "th" sounds don't exist in their language. 😅
Oh yes. I'm a german with a french Name. It's sometimes amusing how my name got butcherd. Then when you have coworkers from around the globe, their is a whole New World of name butchering xD Most of the time i just go with a nickname xD
@@riccardozanoni2531 no it can be used for a girl even here, it's just less common. I was friend with a girl in elementary school that was named Andrea
@@maria-melek In Chinese, Maria would turn into Malia. I guess it's still recognizable, but the "ri" as you would pronounce it in English doesn't exist in Chinese. In Chinese, the R sound, when at the front of a syllable, sounds more like a hybrid between an actual R and the S in "pleasure." The "I" in certain Chinese syllables (including "ri") is pronounced like a vocalized continuation of the consonant. So the closest approximation to the English "ri" would be "li."
@@lisamedlaOMG, you are right, took me a while to get it (你呢？for you poor people as dumb as me xD). But still, at least the sounds exist. Nina is pretty universal, but if I had a baby and wanted to name it the most worldwide pronouncable name, I would go with Maya. I have a very long, unpronouncable name so I've been thinking about it a lot actually. How to spare a child from having a 'chrz' in their name. (I'm Polish, we love our consonant clusters.)
Japanese actually doesn't have the R sound either, they have a sound that's between R and L. It can sound like one or the other depending on where the sound is located in a word, but also other factors. It's a hard thing for them to decompose that sound into two.
I used to get weird looks when I told people my name was "Becca" in Austria...never understood why until I realized it sounded similar to how they pronounced "bäcker" which means baker. 🤷♀️
That's why German speaking Rebecca's usually hate any nicknames btw. Becky/Becca sounds like "Bäcker" and Re sounds like "Reh" which means deer (although in Franconia its acceptable as everyone usually gets a 2 to 3 letter nickname, rarely 4, with the first letters of your name shoutout to La, Jo, Ani, Rie and Eli) and in Austria the saying "Ein Reh pieselt in den Neusiedlersee" (A deer pees into the Neusiedlerlake) is unfortunatly rather common. 🙃
@@Serenity_yt Ich komme mit Bayern, Franken, generell eher den südlicher wohnenden Leuten, nicht klar. Niemand kann meinen Namen aussprechen und kürzen lässt sich "Gysar" auch nicht wirklich gut. Außerdem denken die Spackos gefühlt alle, ich wäre ein Ausländer. Nein, ihr sollte mich nicht für mein "schon gutes" Deutsch loben!
I always hear “Dandara come Zanzara (mosquito in italian)” And they ALWAYS laugh at their own joke as if it was extraordinary and no one never thought about that before
As someone who has the letter Y in her name and lives in Finland, that feeling of dreadfulness whenever they pronounced my name wrong even after so many times of correcting them, I feel you... 😢
I’m also Finn and extremely curious, especially as to what your native language is and what your name is. I’m also interested to hear if you feel like pronouncing Finnish names is easy for you or if you get corrected often. I feel like finns generally let it slide rather than trying to correct foreign people visiting here when it comes to our names, since it’s pretty much to be expected your name wouldn’t be said correctly anyway. Try Jyrki, Yrjö, Paavo, Riikka or Aino for example. Not a single person with a native language other than finnish or swedish has ever pronounced my name with the douple consonants it has. My username is not my actual name so you can’t deduce much from that, but I do usually introduce myself with my nickname like ”it’s like Emma but with an A” for english pronunciation when I don’t bother explaining my long first name and how you’re not supposed to stress random syllables in the middle of the name and all letters are pronounced :D
As a Finn with a name beginning with J I've had to live with the reverse for most of my life, at least in English-speaking countries and many other places (other Nordic countries and Estonia have the same J that we do, Germans would probably get it right as well), at least whenever people try to pronounce my name just based off how it's written. Finnish J is the soft /j/ that is often written with Y in English. Finnish J is never pronounced as /d͡ʒ/ like it often is in English. Think jello (/d͡ʒɛloʊ/) versus yellow (/jɛl.əʊ/).
I used to always have people mispronounce/misspell my first name…then I married a Swiss man and now everyone has trouble with my last name too! 😅 the struggle
I totally feel you. I just hand over my ID and smile to whatever pronunciation I get that day. 😂 This made me think very hard about what names I gave my multi ethnic kids growing up in different country.
God, I felt this so deeply in my soul. I’m Latina so this happened all the time with my name. I eventually had to deal with being called Naomi since that’s the closest Americans come to pronouncing my name even though it’s wrong. 😭😭
You're not helping us to know how to pronounce your name with your comment. I'm still reading your name as Rizzo like from grease 🤷 How should we pronounce your name??
For me I just love how every Italian always forgets the s at the end of my name. They always just call me Mathia, which actually sounds kinda sweet when you pronounce it Italian.
I feel this one‼️ I lived in Italy for a while and Tracy is a difficult name it seems 😕 so I was called Teresa most of the time. Which is a little funny as my sister's name is Taresa‼️😂🤗😉
My neighbor did legally change the spelling of her name to Sabina when she became an American citizen because she couldn't stand people calling her Sa-bean.
Most countries require the spelling to match so she would have to change her name in America first and have issues in America as well. I'm 100% sure many people would assume Cheisi is pronounced Cheesey in America. Maybe she could just go by Kay?
😂😂 my moms MARRIED last name is Andrews.. first name? JULIE. We live in America.. EVERY TIME she tells someone her name they go “omg do you sing? Are you an AcTrESs?!” 😂 I die. Good time. Gooood times.
I have the same issue in Germany. However here at the doctor they ask you for your birthday and then search for it in their system. Usually I'm the only one with an Italian name and that birthday, so they are able to find me this way.
I’ve gotten Trackie for Tracy overseas … they didn’t understand why I didn’t response when they called my name. Meanwhile I’m thinking - who would name someone Trackie? 😅
I knew someone whose name sounds like Casey (Kei-see), but hers was written Kesi. The most probable explanation for it was to keep the pronounciation, as Casey would be read as Cha-say there. Kacie would also be pronounced Ka-chi-e or Ka-chi 😅
I had classmate transfer to our school from China. I don't know how she actually spelled her name but it was pronounced Urine. I felt so bad because she didn't speak any English and had no clue that her name sounded like the English word for pee. I still think about her and wonder if she ever decided to go by a nickname or something or if she didn't care and kept going by her regular name.
I went to school with a girl from China who anglicized her name with the spelling “Qing.” So people would say “ching.” And she would ALWAYS correct them with “actually, is pronounce CHINK! 😊”. 🤦♀️
I have a Norwegian name here in America and I just say it the Americanized way and spell it out at Dr appointments 😅 Meanwhile, every Norwegian I run across goes “hey! Did you know your [last] name means skull? Isn’t that cool?!?” Like yeah… I’m also Norwegian lol.
@@user-bo7ob1ek2x I mean flora is just vegetation. In a lot of languages it’s the word for flower, I have hard time believing anybody’s first tought would be a gut medicine rather than something to do with nature
Im double challenged. Born and raised in Berlin Germany. My last name Jurke is slang for cucumber in Berlin dialect. I now live in Ireland 😥 everyone calls me Ms J*rk
Living in France with a name that doesn’t make sense to them makes funny situations! In The Netherlands it’s a conman name but over here people ask me or my partner after a few minutes “so…what’s your real name?” I am so used to it right now that the second thing I tell people after introducing myself is “yes that’s my real name!”
In France they could not pronounce Sarah as much as they tried, I realised quickly that there was no point correcting them as it didn't really matter. For a year I was "SAH-RAH"
A for apple, honey. It is uou who is mispronouncing your own name. It comes from the Hebrew and thats exactly how it is pronounced. English speakers have adapted the phonetic
I have a similar thing in Japanese. My name sounds basically the same as Harry, and very well known western men's name. They've all seen the boy wizard movies, you know? Unless they're really good with English, I generally tell my Japanese friends that they can call me Haru.
Same here. I had people go "Ah your name is quite hard, but I'll try my best" and I just told them to use my last name or a Japanese nickname because none of the sounds in my name properly exist in Japanese and I'd rather they give up than put both of us through that pain
I am so sorry, i understand that feeling as someone who use to get asked if I was having a good day just cuz of my sir name being Day. Also got "Gay" a lot...kids can be mean but I'm sure the adults don't mean anything by it.
Being a female named Drew, people seem more surprised by gender rather than the pronunciation. I learned quickly that a lot of languages pronounce it more like "Ja-ru" 😅
It makes me really appreciate that my parents called me Julia - that's a pretty common name, especially in Europe where I live and there is multiple different ways of pronouncing it depending on the country and it don't cause any confusion most of the time hahah
Same here, my name is Maria so it works pretty well everywhere thankfully 😃 pretty hard to butcher it completely although some pronounce it with minor variations but I don’t mind
So many names are beautiful in Italian. They sound more unusual and exotic, like Beatrice, for example. It’s my favorite language. I hope you don’t get that a lot (what the receptionist here said about the pasta), bc it’s a lovely name either way. I didn’t relate it with that at all.
Not gonna lie, when I first started following you on insta I pronounced the name wrong 😂 like I knew it was not "cacie" but still my Italian mind couldn't help
This has always confused me from a bystander’s pov. If you’re told the pronunciation of someone’s name straight from that person, shouldn’t you automatically take that as correct? Why do some people insist on a locally-accented name?- They were not named that way! Also inclusive of my experiences of people butchering my last name to make it more local or relatives saying it’s “the same”. My parents didn’t teach me my last name only for it to be “wrong”, jfc.
But if you only see the name written down and you don't know the person language and pronunciation, you will read it wrong when speaking. Of course your name is not wrong, just sometimes people will butcher it without malice because they don't know better
The receptionist was saying how she had to spell it in order to look it up on her computer, she wasn't repeating her name to her the way she would pronounce it. The video wasn't very clear I agree.
I completely agree but no matter how hard you try you just cannot pronounce someone's name right sometimes as the sounds in their name aren't in your language!! But yes you should do your best to TRY to say the name the way someone introduces themselves even if you don't get it right. I went to school with a girl from China. She had an English name so I asked her if that was her legal name. She confirmed that this was an English nickname but her name was something similar to Zay Zoon (phonetic spelling from me and u cannot remember the english spelling on her passport!!). I repeated what she said. She told me to just call her by the English name!!!! 😂😂
Your accent is getting better! Please visit Gaeta if you haven’t already! It’s wonderful small town! I’m biased being from there but we are so kind and have great goat cheese!
Someday when I take my husband to Colombia to meet my family I imagine this is how it’s going to be since his name is “Kelly” and the “ll” and “y” sounds are the same in Spanish and make no sense to be put together. I’ve already had to explain to my family that the way you say his name is “Keli.” So yeah. Marrying an Irish man is fun 😂.
Wow, never crossed my mind how the Italian pronunciation of some letters would mess up my name. But my name is Italian 😂 so it gets messed up in my own country (that also speaks a Latin language so not that bad) I laughed so much with this! 😂
My name means “light around the moon” in Arabic and is not usual for a European to have. Got an Icelandic friend drunk and he told me my name is pronounced and sounds the same as the word for “barf” in Icelandic. 😂😂😂
My name is Bianca (an Italian name). I’m American but my mom spent time in Italy as a child and loved Italian names. Growing up in the USA, and even as an adult I get all sorts of weird pronunciations - Binaca, Blanca, Beyon-ika. It’s always interesting to see how people spell or pronounce foreign names.
My name is Eileen. For some reason Chinese middle aged people cannot for the life of them pronounce Eileen unless I add specific accents to it as if it were Chinese 💀 I’m always called “Elaine” lol
When i lived in the French house in college I could NOT get the lab tutors to call me by my nickname 😂 “it’s just prettier if we say madeline, more French this way”
No way 😂❤ mammamia i am dying 😂! I lived in Italy quasi tre anni pero viveva in una comunita, per questo mia experienca e molto diversa e mi fai ridere tantissima tua video e scenete ❤spero che mi capisci ❤
I understand this struggle, my name is Jovi because it comes from the word jovial, but every single time I introduce myself its always "oh! like Bon Jovi!"
As an Italian I'm sorry😭😭 best way to cope with it is just to find it cute haha. They don't mean any harm, they're just not very used to foreigners and relating names to things is a thing we do even with weird Italian names
I’m Japanese, and this one day in high school an exchange student from the US visited our class and introduced herself like this: “Hi, I’m Devin. But please call me Dev for short!” Literally the whole room went dead quiet except for a few boys suppressing their laughter. Little did she know, _debu_ in Japanese means _fatty,_ which wasn’t helped by the fact that she was a bit on the curvier side. I was the only other English speaker there but didn’t have the heart to tell her that.
.... The last time I travelled for a longer period of time and interacted with locals a lot... I ended up either being called either 'mamasita' or.. 'Hildita'... as my name is one of those names where you almost have to be Scandinavian to be able to pronounce it properly. While 'Hildegunn' is pretty straightforward in Norwegian (said how its written basically)... its not so much otherwise.
Since my name is Kacie as well its nice to know if I ever go to Italy my name will be pronounced that way. It's very rare to see the same spelling as me. And when I stumbled across this video I'm in awe.
I am German. My family name is pretty rare and it appears to be an American (or actually Irish) name as it is written with a y. So many Germans can't pronounce it, even if I tell them to just pronounce it like a German name. German letters are directly connected to a single sound unless they part of the 3 or 4 combinations, which have their own sound connected. So you don't have five pronunciation for 'e' or something, so there is a single way of pronouncing the letters correctly. They still can't pronounce my name.
My mum's German and my last name is Lewis. So funny the average German trying to pronounce although not as bad as used to be as there are a few famous people with first or last name Lewis now. When I was a little girl though they would say Lay-vis!
Mine is in reverse. My husband from Ecuador shortens my name from Vanessa to Vané. But pronounced in Spanish it sounds like “Bannay”, or, how I hear it, “Bunny”.
Since I have started learning Italian, the “GEE oh VAW nee” (as it is pronounced where I live) phenomenon has given me an eye twitch. I can’t even imagine how much the feminine form destroys people further! haha 😅
@@katherinec6031 eye twitching since i could remember 😂🤣😂 my eyes are so tired. I've started correcting people. If you can say "Kardashian," you can say Giovanna. Thanks for learning the language! What made you choose it?
@@cardiabardia439 The Kardashian example is brilliant! I love that haha I have liked Italian pretty well all my life, but I really fell in love with it about a year ago when I intently listened to native speakers of it in movies and videos. I had attempted to learn different languages over the years, but the curricula I had available at the time were usually poor quality, so the idea of trying to learn French or Spanish or German again stressed me out. But with Italian, I had no baggage, so I felt free to pursue this gorgeous language. Also, I have wanted to visit Italy since I was a child, and since it is a good idea to know some of the local language before traveling, learning will hopefully let me spread my wings one day!
@@katherinec6031 aww well I hope you get the chance to visit one day! Sorry your schools didn't have Italian offered for you, but It makes me proud that you sought to learn it anyways! Your grammar is likely better than mine! This has been so nice :) I hope you get that chance one day!
My name is Beverlie. I live in Australia now… so that’s fun. I’m usually Barbara. Sometimes I just choose an easy name if I’m getting takeaway. There’s no need for the confusion 😂
