How would you pronounce Zong-Zhi?

[Bernadine]

I have no idea.

[LLL]

I think the Zh is like a "J" sound

[Bernadine]

Sept 7, 2012 13:12:46 GMT -5 LLL said:

I think the Zh is like a "J" sound

Thanks, that's what I was thinking.

[speckledfrog]

I would go with Jong She

[Deleted]

sjong sjee-ee

[speckledfrog]

Maybe I have it backwards. Shong Jee?

[Deleted]

Like the delicious sticky rice treat wrapped in a leaf?

There's not really an English equivalent to the sound represented by "z" in Mandarin. It's like "ts" if that makes any sense. "Zh" is close to the "j" sound.

So something like TSONG-jih.

[Deleted]

And LOLOLOLOLOLOL to me.

I'm thinking of zongzi.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zongzi

BUT!

Regardless, my pronunciation suggestion above remains the same.

[Bernadine]

After all that, his number didn't work, lol.

[Deleted]

I'm about to work with mostly Chinese scientists (and all Asian scientists, just most are Chinese) -- I expect to be speaking Mandarin by January!!!

j/k But I do hope not to fuck up all their names on the first day.