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Help[Opinions] Re: To anyone who is Italian --
in reply to a message by Fionnghuala
Italian living in Italy, here :)
No, I don't think she will end up as a Rosamaria: if she tells them how to pronounce it, they will pronounce it almost well, because the sounds are not that difficult to make for an Italian speaker.
They will probably find difficult reading or writing it, though. My name is Michelle and it is never spelled and rarely read properly, but no-one has ever had difficulties saying it.
Side note: in some areas of Southern Italy (where the majority of immigrants to the US came from), it is a tradition to give grandparents' names to grandchildren, regardless if other grandchildren already have it. So, for examples, there will be a grandfather named Antonio and each one of his children will have a son named Antonio. The same for grandmothers.
(I hope this is understandable and I apologize for grammar mistakes)
No, I don't think she will end up as a Rosamaria: if she tells them how to pronounce it, they will pronounce it almost well, because the sounds are not that difficult to make for an Italian speaker.
They will probably find difficult reading or writing it, though. My name is Michelle and it is never spelled and rarely read properly, but no-one has ever had difficulties saying it.
Side note: in some areas of Southern Italy (where the majority of immigrants to the US came from), it is a tradition to give grandparents' names to grandchildren, regardless if other grandchildren already have it. So, for examples, there will be a grandfather named Antonio and each one of his children will have a son named Antonio. The same for grandmothers.
(I hope this is understandable and I apologize for grammar mistakes)
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