Question i m capt in pak army. i,ve interest in ww2. however in russian campaigns its very difficult to pronounce the places and names of various generals. i.e smolensk,tukhasheviski,dneiper river etc.
Answer Salaam aleikum, Captain!
I can sympathize with you, as Cyrillic is not the alphabet I grew up with either.
I don't know the Arabic alphabet either, so my pronunciation of Urdu (I'm
assuming here that it is your native language, or at least the one you use
at work) would be handicapped by having to pronounce it in a Latin alphabet
transliteration. For instance, English doesn't have a sound that corresponds
to the "bh" sound in Bhutto.
Japanese have problems with words that contain consonant clusters,
so they say "Afuganusutan" instead of "Afghanistan" because their
language has a vowel in each syllable and, I believe, never two consonant sounds
together in a syllable.
So, my advice is to learn the Cyrillic alphabet. It's very phonetic, unlike the
English language. Once you master it you can go to sources like Wikipedia,
which will tell you where to place the accent:
