OK, once and for all...how do you pronounce Yi Jianlian?

Maybe: "EE JEEYEN LEEYEN"

 

EEE,

not sure about thelast name.

 

Yi is the last name ...

 

YOW MING

 

that is about right

although no real y pronunciation in jeeyen and leeyen

really like G(as in the letter)-en,lee-en
say the last two words real fast and you got it

 

What about EEE Gin Lin? Heard some people pronounce it that way and it sounded simple enough.

 

Yi is pronounced similar to the first part of "easy"

Jian is like the first part of "Giant"

Lian is like the 2nd part of "Julian"

now put them together.

 

so easy giant julian ?

 

I remember before the draft, EVERYONE I heard was saying "Gillian" as in "Gillian Anderson, I love you", it was weird because that's obviously not right. I mean, it's written in English, for us to read, based on our rules, how would it possibly be that?

 

So is it pronounced E G Lee

 

so Easy Giant Julian

makes something like

EE JYin-LEEin
(no stresses on the last name)

this guy needs a nickname seriously before he gets good

 

haha, that's crystal clear.

 

Her voice creeps me out.

 

sounds wrong to me. its certainly not Gi-Lian as you put it.

 

Go here:
hxxp://www.neospeech.com/demo/demo_text.php

Select "Chinese."

Copy and paste Yi's name into the text area multiple times, so that you can differentiate between the introductory notification and the actual translation:
易建联
易建联
易建联
易建联
易建联

 

Oops, Clutch beat me.

 

Btw, 90% of the people here pronounce "Yao Ming" wrongly. It should be "Yao MEEE-NG"

 

Yao's Mini-Me.