Most of us probably see, in print, names of people or places that we don't know how to pronounce. VOA has a pronunciation guide. You can see a short list of names recently in the news here, or a longer list here. VOA provides a phonetic spelling which is very good and also you can hear the name pronounced by clicking on the small speaker icon. (I was not able to get the sound files to play in Windows Media Player but they played fine in Real Audio, which you can download from here.)
Posted by Jon Lutz
