How do you pronounce 'Nguyen' ?

[Platypus]

LazyB, record you saying it properly for us

 

[homercles337]

Originally posted by: dbk
knew-en?

Yep thats it. I dated a chick with that last name. For being a vietnamese/chinese mix she was hawt!

 

[silverpig]

When camping you enter the woods...

I think if you say that part of the sentence really fast and mash it together, you'll be pretty close.

 

[TXHokie]

Friend of mine knows all the butchered version of his last name so he'd rather recognize all the versions than try to fix em:
Win
Gwen
Nuh-Guy-Yen
Nu-gent (as it Ted Nugent, he likes this one best)
Ni-gent

I've heard the way he pronounced it in Vietnamese but can't do it myself.

 

[LazyB]

Platypus

I am at work now but I'll try to find it on the web..I am pretty sure that it's available.

 

[FreshPrince]

went to high school with a Nguyen and he told me to just pronounce it gwen like the girl's name.

 

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: KLin
new-win?

More like

noo-win (there is no "U" sound in the middle.)

But it is monosyllabic, so even then that is a rough estimate.

noowen

 

[MasonLuke]

Originally posted by: DVK916
I have an uncle named, Nguyen Nguyen.

His parents are very creative

 

[ebaycj]

NOOOOOG-IN (or at least that's what we called the Vietnamese girl in college whose last name was Nguyen).

But really I think it's pronounced "win", as in "win a game of counterstrike".

 

[trmiv]

Every Vietnamese person I've know has always told me to pronounce it "win."

 

[chr6]

win

 

[joshmroest]

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
n'guy-en

Like Nuh-Guy-En

Nuh-Guy-En FTW!

 

[Q]

naga you son en chin gwin bin?

 

[Valhalla1]

"win"

straight from poker pro Scotty Nguyen's mouth. He likes that Americanized version and the context "win" has as a pro game player, so I'll go with that.

"You call, its gonna be all over baby"

 

[OOBradm]

Originally posted by: silverpig
When camping you enter the woods...

I think if you say that part of the sentence really fast and mash it together, you'll be pretty close.

i like this

 

[xcript]

No freaking idea.

I'd probably pronounce it "Nnn-Guy-En" and, according to this thread, be completely wrong.

 

[ShadoWing]

fob power.

 

[her209]

Sum yung guy

 

[Kromis]

Originally posted by: ShadoWing
fob power.

I take offense to that (somewhat). You take that back!

 

[TheNinja]

Originally posted by: BigToque
I don't know why, but I see it as "new-gin"

I think the exact same thing even though it makes no sense.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: joshmroest

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
n'guy-en

Like Nuh-Guy-En

Nuh-Guy-En FTW!

I'm with this guy! Nuh-Guy-En all the way!

 

[AgentUnknown]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
why didn't they just spell it newen?

Because it's a vietnamese name you dumb fuk

 

[AgentUnknown]

It's pronounced win. End of thread.

 

[Doodoo]

The only time i've ever heard it pronounced win or newen is when viet people say their name to white people. Its very hard to pronounce unless you have a viet tongue.