How to Pronounce Nguyen? (CORRECTLY) Most Common Vietnamese Name Pronunciation

sorry. I will pronounce it EXACTLY as it is shown in the ENGLISH spelling. If you use English Alphabets, we will say it as it spells.

This shit aint right

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Thank you!

Lol that's not it

NEW ANN OR TO SIMPLIFY IT IN ENGLISH WE JUST PRONOUNCE IT ........ JOHN

Every person I've met with this name (in America) has pronounced it "Win." I am sus.

That's the Vietnamese Nguyen. The source sound? 😅

Pernounced Wynn. My 11 neighbors with the last name Nguyen will attest to it.

New When kinda or New Win, just guessing

Thats my last name and I usually say win ( like the word in english )

Native Vietnamese speaker here. This guy's not even Vietnamese and he's out here telling everyine the completely wrong pronunciation!

It doesn't matter whether its the northern accent, or the southern accent, or the central accent, this is not how you pronounce it!

He can't even get the pronunciation of the first two letters correct!

Actually you don't pronounce N and Y, so it's not pronounce nuyen. When you see Ng, basically pronounce the sound from your nose.

It will always be "N-guy-en" for me

My gf, whos last name is nguyen, says it is pronounced “we-in” really fast

Given I've known several Nguyen's and they all pronounce it differently. Good luck.

I am Vietnamese and this pronunciation is 100% wrong. It is /ŋwiəʔən˧˥/ (I do not know any other way to explain the true pronunciation through text) and for those who says that it is "win" or something like that, its just a way to make western people pronounce the surname easier. You can use google translate to hear the correct pronunciation if you want.

its " nu gu yen "

This is not the correct pronunciation! I know someone personally with this name and he pronounces it "gwen" like the American surname Guinn.

I know a woman named Truc and her son is Van.

I remember when I was a kid I asked a vietnamese mother if her last name was "Na-Guy-En" and she got really pissed at me. True story I swear.

This is a totally wrong pronunciation, unfortunately ... :(

close - a little less of the "u" (not so much 'new') and the INFLECTION should go 'up'

the "ng" is a very short lingual sound (the tongue touching the top of the mouth)

if you add a "n" to the start of the Anglo name 'Gwen' and take off some of the 'en' sound, it's also very close

I'm not vietnamese but this sounds wrong to me.

Some of you are very a-new-win

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I used to say nightwing I’m sorry 😂

This is right. Ask my viet friends when I was younger said this is how you say it

And here u had me thinking its pronounced as "nuy-en."

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We pronounce it as whing

nice try my man, but not even close

I had a doctor at my clinic with this last name. She said it’s pronounced as “Win”

THAT IS NOT HOW YOU SAY IT 😭

I was told we-yen by a customer service representative and she was pretty f-ing condescending/rude about it… come to find out, she was wrong to boot!😅

I think that just saying “win” with a slight “ng” at the beginning suffices, but the words I know come from southern Vietnam and Hue so maybe it’s different?

well..that makes sense

I was right my Vietnamese friend tried to say it was pronounced as wind and I couldn’t believe it it’s sad honestly America has erased culture from many people.

Uhhhh I grew up with a bunch of Vietnamese in Houston and they all said “win”

Nuwen Nuwen

Vietnamese is the silliest sounding language 😬

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Absolutely not.

My last name is Nguyen ❤

Heya Vietnamese here, it's not "win". That's just how many Westerners pronounce it, so many in fact that we can no longer correct anyone 😭😭.
I'd say the closest pronunciation to "Nguyen" is "ng'win" with the "ng" in "sing" (si"nging")