How do you pronounce the name, Che Guevara?

[Kurai Tsuki]

Am I missing a common mispronunciation?

[Individual]

Oh my goodness-gracious!

He looked at me.. Did ya see him, did ya?

Che Guevara looked at me!

*Faints*

[Latin American Socialist]

theyre all wrong. Its Ch-eh Geh-Vah-Rah

[Latin American Socialist]

chei gei vah rah is the english way to say his name

[Ortega]

T-chay Gei-vah-rah.

Not that it matters.

[elijahcraig]

T

Where did that come from?

[CubanFox]

Ch-ay Gwa-vah-rah.

Mmm...dirty anglicised version.

[EneME]

lol um I thought it was

tch-eh gweh-vah-rah

[synthesis]

You're all wrong. It's actually pronounced Jim-me Payje.

[synthesis]

By the way, there is a forum for this type of stuff.

[elijahcraig]

tch

Where the fuck are you people getting the "t" from?

[EneME]

Originally posted by [email protected] 4 2004, 06:37 AM

Where the fuck are you people getting the "t" from?
it's from the spanish language ;) and most especially from my Argentinan friends who all call eachother "che" meaning...comrade or friend

[elijahcraig]

My Spanish teacher(s) must have been horrible.

[EneME]

well in the spanish language the "ch" sound is alot harder than it is in english...it sounds like their is a "t" in front of it cuz of it.....for example, if you were to ask a spanish person to say "chevrolet" they would pronounce it with a strong "ch" sound like "tchevrolet"

[Kurai Tsuki]

Odd that my thread would be moved to the Eresto Che Guevara section, where there is no option for poll creation ^^;

[dark fairy]

hablen espanol!!!... hay no dan lastima pero come no todos aqui son de un lugar donde se hable el espanol... estabien...

[enigma2517]

I like Shay better, personally ;).

Also, since I am a stupid uninformed Western teenager I always read it as Shay, because its not like anybody around here knows anyway.

[Postteen]

Listen to Carlos Puebla when he sing Comandante CHE Guevara,and you'll find out the correct!

[Wiesty]

THATS IT
lets end it right now

Its Pronounced

chA (long A so it make the sound of the letter)
Gih-Var-Ah

[Kurai Tsuki]

I find it kind of hard to believe that Gue would be pronounced as Gih, especially in Spanish. I also think ei represents a Spanish E better than a long English A.

[Kurai Tsuki]

Originally posted by Beatle [email protected] 4 2004, 04:49 PM
Listen to Carlos Puebla when he sing Comandante CHE Guevara,and you'll find out the correct!
Yeah, good point ^_^
I just wanted to get an idea about how many people are mispronouncing his name, there really don't seem to be that many.

At least nobody voted that they pronounced it Shay Gwaverra, even though enigma admitted to saying it that way in his post.

Pay attention to the pronunciation that Jacobo Arbenz gives, that's the right one :D


T-chay Gei-vah-rah.

[fernando]

Originally posted by [email protected] 4 2004, 07:30 AM
it's from the spanish language ;) and most especially from my Argentinan friends who all call eachother "che" meaning...comrade or friend
"Che" means something like "dude" in Cordoba right? So Ernesto "Che" Guevara has gone into history as "El Che"..."The Dude" <_< EAT THAT BIG LEBOWSKI&#33;&#33;&#33;

[bobby]

Wiesty is correct. I get this problem all the time with people on Che (on Mao Tse-tung as well)/

[Kurai Tsuki]

This Spanish pronunciation webpage should show it to be more in line with Jacobo Arbenz&#39;s pronunciation (http://members.aol.com/alvareze/spanish/frame.html) :D

I assure you, no Es will be found being pronounced as "ih"

[Pasionaria]

Well,sorry,I´m new in this forum.Perhaps in the beginin I can´t explain my opinion in english very good.The name doesn´t pronounce as in your options.Written is:Che Guevara,and pronounced is Che Gevara.

[bobby]

and pronounced is Che Gevara.

What the hell?

[Wiesty]

Originally posted by [email protected] 4 2004, 10:43 PM
I find it kind of hard to believe that Gue would be pronounced as Gih, especially in Spanish. I also think ei represents a Spanish E better than a long English A.
its a short i so it makes a "IH"
so like

Gih vah rah
or geh vah rah

when u say it at normal speed they both sound identical

[Wiesty]

o and if u wana make it more authentic
roll the R in guevara
so like


Chay Geh Vah RRah

[Wiesty]

here i thew together a quick little page for those boneheads out there who chose to mispronounce a name of greatness
click on the link at the bottom for a pronouciation file that i made

Che Guevara Prounouciation Page (http://www.geocities.com/dylanwiest2000/chepronounce.html)

[Kurai Tsuki]

Hey, that&#39;s a really cool page :)

[Wiesty]

lol
i put it together in like 2 minutes

[Gen Arkan]

i pronounce it shay goo e vara

i know its wrong :P

[Wiesty]

Originally posted by [email protected] 5 2004, 12:02 AM
This Spanish pronunciation webpage should show it to be more in line with Jacobo Arbenz&#39;s pronunciation (http://members.aol.com/alvareze/spanish/frame.html) :D

I assure you, no Es will be found being pronounced as "ih"
cool page
so thats where the word negro came from
it was the spanish word for black
interesting..........

[Rex_20XD6]

It’s funny to watch the people on here. –No it’s like this. –no there’s no t –No it’s like Che-T-lafhl-nl-fhd-njl

[Rex_20XD6]

g-vär or g-värä: last name

[KrazyRabidSheep]

i hesitate to stir up this issue again, but here goes

in spanish class, we were always taught "v"s were pronounced like "b"s ("b" burro versus "v" vaca), so it would be geh bah rah

i could be wrong. . .my spanish teacher was from Barcelona, so we learned the spanish dialect. . .little things like the vosotros verb form that most people who took spanish (mostley they teach latino dialect) have no idea what i&#39;m talking about

[DaCuBaN]

Well, I&#39;ve got a scottish accent, so when I it comes out somewhat like shae gie varra

[Kurai Tsuki]

Originally posted by [email protected] 12 2004, 02:04 AM
in spanish class, we were always taught "v"s were pronounced like "b"s ("b" burro versus "v" vaca), so it would be geh bah rah
I don&#39;t know about that, on the documentary El Che: Investigating a Legend you can see a Cuban demonstration where they prounounce the v, it sounds about the same.

Sometimes foreign language teachers can give bad advice, I once had a French teacher from Quebec who said that the French term for "Together" was "class-capet" or something like that. I lived in France for two years, and the term used for together was always ensemble..

[tepatoken]

well, i&#39;m spanish, for my is very simple, but is so complicated to write at an english forum jejej. I pronounce the name as CHEH- GUEHVARAH
DON ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA DE LA SERNA FOR THE FRIENDS JEJE