My name is Nancy and today I'm gonna be walking

JI我是 Nancy，今天我將繞 BuzzFeed 辦公室一圈

around the BuzzFeed office trying to see if my coworkers

看看我的同事們

know how to say my last name.

是否知道如何唸我的姓

How long have we been friends?

我們當朋友多久了？

- Almost a year?

快一年吧？

- A little over a year.

超過一年一點點

- For a good half a year.

差不多半年

- Would you say that we're good friends?

妳覺得我們是好朋友嗎？

- Yeah.

對

- Yeah, we're good friends, we hang.

對啊，我們是好朋友，我們玩在一起

- I've been to your house.

我去過妳家

- Do you know how to pronounce my last name?

你知道怎麼唸我的姓嗎？

(record scratch)

（刮唱片聲）

- Oh, no no no no no, I can't do it.

噢，不～～～～～我唸不出來

- Noy-wen.

Noy-wen

- Ehhh...

呃...

No.

錯

- I don't want to try 'cause I feel like

我不想試因為我覺得

I'm gonna mess it up.

會搞砸

- It's Noo-yin?

是Noo-yin 嗎 ?

I had a friend in high school named Julian Noo-yin.

我有個高中同學叫做 Julian Noo-yin

- It's not.

不是這樣唸

- Waynge?

Waynge ?

- No.

錯

- It's Noo-wen?

是 Noo-wen 嗎 ?

- It's still wrong.

還是錯的

- I feel like I just blew your mind.

我覺得我嚇到妳了

- I've been saying Noy-wen since middle school.

我從中學開始就一直唸 Noy-wen

- N'wen.

- N'wen

- Alright I'll take that.

好吧我可以接受

- Wen?

- Wen ?

Hmmm?

嗯哼 ?

- It's actually Wheng.

其實唸 Wheng

- Wang. Wang?

Wang，Wang ?

Wheng.

Wheng

- Oh, I don't want to try again.

我不想再試了

- Wheng.

Wheng

- Wang.

- Wang

Everybody always says Wang.

大家都唸 Wang

It's Wheng.

唸 Wheng

- What? Can you come closer and say that again?

啥？妳可以靠近點再唸一次嗎

- Wheng.

Wheng

- Wayne?

Wayne ?

- You're just saying Wayne now.

你剛剛唸 Wayne

- I wanna crawl into your mouth and figure out

我想鑽進妳的嘴裡搞清楚

where you're holding the word.

這個字到底怎麼發

- Wheng.

- Wheng.

- Whang?

Whang ?

- That's actually good.

其實唸得還不錯

- So the thing about the Vietnamese language,

越南語

is that it's a monosyllabic language,

其實是單音節的語言，

so every single word is only one syllable.

所以每個單詞只有一個音節

So Nguyen is one word, so Noy-wen is not correct.

所以 Nguyen是一個詞，唸 Noy-wen 是不對的

A lot of the sounds that goes into my last name,

我的姓裡面的很多發音，

doesn't really exist in the English language.

在英語中並不存在

- Nancy told me how to pronounce her last name last year,

去年 Nancy 告訴我如何唸她的姓，

and my dentist has the same last name,

我的牙醫的姓跟她一樣，

so I was able to call her doctor Wheng,

所以我能叫她 Wheng 醫生

and I could tell it meant a lot to her

我看得出來能正確唸她的姓

that I said her last name correctly.

對她來說意義重大

Thank you, Nancy.

謝謝妳，Nancy

- I've heard my last name butchered in so many different

我聽過關於我的姓的奇怪唸法已經多到

ways that nothing really phases me anymore.

沒有什麼能嚇倒我了

We're all learning today.

我們今天都學了一課

Not really me, but definitely a lot of other people are.

不見得是我，但絕對有很多人在學

("Blue Danube")

（藍色多瑙河）

- I'm really sorry, Nancy.

我真的很抱歉

(laughing)

( 笑 )

- It's okay, we're still good friends.

沒關係，我們還是好朋友

You want a hug?

要抱一下嗎 ?

- [friend] Yes.

好