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[Opinions] More German names (long) + German Pronounciations of names
Paul (Pah-ul)
Daniel (Dah-nee-el)
Hannes (Hah-ness)
Timo (Tee-mo)
Jan (yahn)
Julia (Yuh-lee-a)
Leah (Lay-ah)
Heike (High-kuh)
Lilian (Lilly-ahn)
Samuel (Sah-mu-ale)
Leonie (Lay-oh-nee)I don't know...I ran out of names...do you have any names that you would like to have the German pronounciation of?!
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Hi there! I like Leonie (named my hamster this!), Hannes and Daniel from those there. I think Daniel sounds way better in German, same goes for Michael which is gorgeous with the German pronunciation. I wanted to say though that I disagree with your Heike pronunciation, I'd say it's "HIGH-keh", not "HIGH-kuh". "keh" rhymes with the first 'e' in elephant or empire. ~SHILOH~
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HEy - yeah, you're right about the Heike pronounciation! That's my aunt's name. It's hard to write the names how they are pronounced :D
I'm sure I have a lot more German names...(since I live here...*haha*)
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Hi there! Yeah, it is. It's especially hard to tell someone how to pronounce a name like Juergen or Michael (one that has an oe, ae or ue- sorry don't know how to get the umlaut with my keyboard, or a name that has a ch). Heck, most of the time it's hard to get someone to say it right when they're standing right there and you're talking to them... Anyway, other German names I like are for boys: Valentin (I think this is so sweet especially because when I lived in Austria, my host mother's nephew was this precious little three month old boy named Valentin and I got to see him grow during his first year. He was so sweet and for some reason he adored me, would stop crying as soon as someone gave him to me to hold...), Felix, Jakob, Michael and Daniel (know I already said those!), Jonas, Nikolas, and for girls: Karolina, Angelika, Elisabeth ww nn Lilli or Eliss, Eliss (like it on it's own too!), Klara, Mirjam, Adalheid, Marie, Katja, Katarina... That's pretty much it. As much as I love Austria and the German language, my gosh does it have a TON of uuuuugly names. I think the worst are (for boys): Horst, Eugen (that one's really bad, doesn't even sound like a name) for girls: Waltraud, Almut, Berta, Elke, Ursula w/ nns Ursi or Uschi, Doris, Vera, Matilda (though I do like Mathilde or Mathild), Ingeborg, Helga...

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I like (with American pronounciations):
Paul
Daniel
SamuelEdit: Spelling.
-Lissa Hannah-
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. - Allan Bloom

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