Weird. Where does he live in Germany, Franconia, maybe Saxony? Unless you have that kind of dialect, Feargal doesn’t really sound like Ferkel.
Most people would know how to pronounce Sean. I mean, Sean Connery for a start.
Pronounced Schohrn.
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Ha ha funny. I 'm sure your German pronounciation is absolutely spot on all the time. How about ‘Dschonn’ then.
Berlin.
It’s not exact, but close enough to cause sniggering apparently.
I am not a really red, but i want nevertheless here post. I do lives in North Rhine-Westphalia, ,Kreis’’ Minden-Lübbecke.
We had a works meeting with a team from Scotland, and I had to try and write the Gaelic names out phonetically for our guys.
The thing is that there are literal equivalents, for example, Katrina for Caitrìona. But I had to approximate Siobhán. One of my teammates thought it was some sort of Irish motorway.
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Schiwonn 
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Weirdness…
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It took a baby for him to finally resign (they say he had to), unfortunately he still retains his Bundestags mandate. But at least…
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