Archives For Pronouncing Foreign Rosters

Tony Parker playing for France

As a public service in promotion of better pronunciation of foreign names, here is the proper way to say the names of the players on the French men’s roster, brought to you by the great basketball minds at the French site posterdunk.com, (@posterdunk on Twitter).

This one’s for you, Doug Collins and Bob Fitzgerald.

KΓ©vin SERAPHIN

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Nicolas BATUM
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Fabien CAUSEUR
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Yakhouba DIAWARA
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Ali TRAORE
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Tony PARKER
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Yannick BOKOLO
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Florent PIETRUS
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Nando DE COLO
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Mickael GELABALE
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Boris DIAW
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Ronny TURIAF
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