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I am having a lot of problems with pronunciation of foreign place names and people names in the English language.Could you recommend you a dictionary or website that can help me with it?
How do you say the following?
Fritjof Capra
Robert Cailliau
John von Neumann

And a lot more!!!!!
I don't know where to look for their pronunciation?

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None of these are English names: Capra is Austrian, Caillau is Belgian, von Neumann is Hungarian.

With English applied they would come out as

Frit-yoff Ca-pra
Robert Cay-loe
John von new-man
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