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02-22-2007, 05:24 AM

Japanese pronunciation is simple; it's a syllabary.
I'm assuming yours came out as タイラー.
タ - Ta
イ - I
ラ - Ra
ー - Trailing (unlike in Hiragana, you do not repeat a character to double a vowel sound, you simply add a trailing mark such as this to double the vowel)

Ta as in Tah
I sounds like E
Ra as in Rah, with a slight trail at the end for the vowel sound.
A little hard to explain, much easier if you hear it...

~Nao

PS: Foreign names are very easy, don't need to bother using some machine translator. All foreign names are written in katakana, and since it's a syllabary, it's very easy to piece together names.

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