How to pronounce Dmitry's last name, Sklyarov
From: Sergey Kharlamov <kharlamov
(at) porsche.ru>
From: Nick Moffitt I don't have appropriate recording
equipment, but it is pronounced sklee-YA-rohv sklee as in "ski"
with an L thrown in. YA as in the German word for
"yes" (spelled "ja"). rov with the o as in "offer". Proper Russians will not pronounce
the "ee" in the "sklee" syllable, but will instead
soften the l in a manner that is difficult to describe in English e-mail.
However, it is good enough for Americans to pronounce it as three syllables. The softening of consonants is one of those things about Russian pronunciation that takes weeks of practice by most Americans. Don't fret over it.
From: Alex Fabrikant I stuck up a couple of sound
clips of the exact russian pronounciations at http://csua.berkeley.edu/~alexf/sklyarov/.
See my comments on Nick's recommendations for simplified pronounciation
below: Nick Moffitt wrote: If you use the three-syllable approximation as Nick [reasonably] suggests, don't pronounce the "y"/"j" in "ya" -- just sklee-A-rohff (the same A sound as you find in german "Ja" [for "yes"]), otherwise it sounds virtually unrecognizable. Also, note "-ff" instead of "-v" ending -- native pronounciation would almost definitely put a voiceless sound there. To follow Nick's example, it's just "off" as in "offer"...
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