Isçe Güner Gökçen

English translation: I tried to explain it below

20:20 Sep 9, 2003

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Turkish term or phrase: Isçe Güner Gökçen

Isçer Güner Gökçen

This is a female proper name that I have to transcribe into Lithuanian, my mother tongue; therefore, I need to know how it is pronounced.

Thank you.

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English translation:I tried to explain it below

Explanation:
it is so difficult to write the pronounciation of a name. All I can say is those 'c's with a line underneath in 'Isce' and 'Gokcen' are pronounced as 'che' as the Cuban leader.
The 'u' in Guner is pronounced like 'er' in 'terrific'.
The 'o' in 'Gokcen' is pronounced like 'ur' in 'hurt'
Hope this helps.

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Note added at 2003-09-09 21:40:59 (GMT)
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Also \'er\' in Guner is pronouncd as \'pear\' the fruit. And \'en\' in Gokcen is pronounced as in \'pen\'

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Zorlu
Local time: 17:32

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I tried to explain it below

Zorlu

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Two explanations, first

Özden Arıkan

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Ish chair gyoon air gurkchen

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I tried to explain it below

Zorlu
Local time: 17:32
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Ish chair gyoon air gurkchen

Explanation:
may be easier to comprehend it this way

wandadorff
Local time: 17:32
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Zorlu: 'air's are not the right sound though but close. Also there is no 'r' in Gokcen.

1 hr

-> tsk. This is how an English person would understand the pronunciation. The spelling is irrelevant.

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Gregory Key: The spelling is a bit misleading, though. In the syllable represented by "air," the 'r' needs to be pronounced, but not in the one represented by "chair." This is an important distinction, especially since the asker is transcribing into Lithuanian.

1 day 5 hrs

-> tsk

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Özden Arıkan: [ch]air doesnt give the "er" sound in turk.,which's closer to germ."herr" which in turn IS different than eng."air". so is "gurk" in comparison to "gök". "gyoon" is also very misleading, imo, but i agree that "ish" transcribes perfectly for "iş" ;-)

4 days

-> air & chair do give the er sound for an London English speaker who doesn't speak Turkish. The same applies to gurk and gyoon. The only reason that ish is the perfect pronunciation for iş, is that the sound already exists in English.

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Two explanations, first

Explanation:
1) I've never heard of a name as "Isçer" which I understand should be spelled as "İşçer" with Turkish characters. Also, in the questions list I saw it written as "Isçe" and the first thing that crossed my mind then was that it was "Isçi=İşçi=Worker". So maybe you need to make sure if it's really meant to be a personal name.

2) Güner and Gökçen are both unisex names. So this Güner Gökçen can be either male or female. I just thought I would tell it in case you're not 100% sure about the gender.

As for the pronounciation, a syllable-by-syllable key could be:

İsçer = İşçer
iş = ish; as in [Engl]ish or in Ish[tar]
çen = chen; the first character is the same as the "ch" in chair. As for the rest, the "e" should neither be pronounced too wide nor too closed, in fact it's exactly the same as in the pronounciation of the English male name "Ken".

Güner:
gü = the same as the first syllable of "Gü-tenberg"
ner = the "e" should be pronounced as in the "çer" above again; think of it as the "ner" in "Ner-uda"

Gökçen:
gök = think of it as a German word, you'll easily pronounce it. A full "ö" as in "Gött" or as in the "coeur" in French (though this second "ö" is a bit longer). And the "k" is full and hard, too, as in "flack" or "brick".
çen = "ç" is to be pronounced as in "ch" in chair or choke again, and remember the example of "Ken" above for the rest.

Good luck...

Özden Arıkan
Germany
Local time: 18:32
Native speaker of:

Turkish

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