Many Americans cant prounounce correctly German surnames

[Heather Duval]

English not being phonetically spelt (it rather has an archaic spelling based on how the language used to be centuries ago) makes many Anglophones prone of dyslexia, I believe. Now, English spelling is good as it is; but I noticed this on YT that many Anglophones struggle with reading.
This is also why they often can't grasp the easiest most phonetically spelled words/names in foreign languages. They haven't studied those language, you tell me? Yes, that's also true, but educated people use loanwords and have notions of foreign language to fully understand them. It's a more classical view of education, though.

Some Americans even tried to make their Germans names more American sounding. We did the same in Brazil, many immigrants changed their surname

[Heather Duval]

[Óttar]

Gracile med.

[irishwinner]

German is a very strange language.

[Mortimer]

german names are pretty similar to anglo names, they will struggle much more with french russian names and of course non-european names like arabic, chinese or indian

[irishwinner]

german names are pretty similar to anglo names, they will struggle much more with french russian names and of course non-european names like arabic, chinese or indian

French and even Russian are easier than German. Arabic and especially Chinese are harder.

[Mortimer]

French and even Russian are easier than German. Arabic and especially Chinese are harder.

you really think? i think german names are very similar to english names like smith/schmidt, braun/brown, drumpf/trump etc. müller/miller etc.

[Mens-Sarda]

English speakers can't pronounce correctly any foreign surname

[Cristiano viejo]

English speakers can't pronounce correctly any foreign surname

I remember a NBA player called Cedric Ceballos (Spanish surname) and how the commentarists pronounced his name: Sedric Sebalos...
Anglos even dont bother to name it correctly.

[Mens-Sarda]

I remember a NBA player called Cedric Ceballos (Spanish surname) and how the commentarists pronounced his name: Sedric Sebalos...
Anglos even dont bother to name it correctly.

Thinking to TV series, sometimes ago I was rewatching Star Trek - Deep Space Nine: one of the actors is named Cirroc Lofton and when I was a child and I didn't know a word of English I used to read it "Cheerrok"; now that I know English I realized that Cirroc is the crippled version of Cyrus pronounced by niggers (the actor is black). The correct pronounce in classical Latin should be something like "Keeroos".