How to pronounce "Wo Long".

[芳歲子]

Going by how the English language works I assume a lot of folk are probably going to pronounce it like the actual English words "woe, long". An easy way to say it correctly is to swap the "o" vowels between the two words mentioned so it sounds more like "wore, low-ng".

For the lazy just copy/paste 臥龍 in google translate to hear it.

Disclaimer: I understand that the Mandarin Chinese language did not yet exist at the time of the Three Kingdoms Han Dynasty era and is probably the least phonetically accurate modern Chinese language to represent it but seeing as it's modern China's lingua franca right now it probably makes to most sense to adopt it for the game.

[Crowzer]

I pronounce 'who' like "who are you" and 'long' like "it's a long train". Guess I was wrong

[AILAD]

I trust this guy with his pronunciations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKe945c2WFQ

That said, for western players Chinese is harder to pronounce than Japanese so it's gonna be interesting hearing people pronounce all these names.

[Kai]

Wouldve preferred Cantonese, as most people are familiar with HK movies.

[猿神擁躉]

Originally posted by 季夏三月:

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Disclaimer: I understand that the Mandarin Chinese language did not yet exist at the time of the Three Kingdoms Han Dynasty era and is probably the least phonetically accurate modern Chinese language to represent it but...

This disclaimer is kinda unnecessary and misleading, because probably every native Chinese speaker and people with basic knowledge of Chinese language can see the EN title is based on Mandarin pronunciation, just without the tone marks since English doesn't have tone marks, and if some foreign audiences have zero basic knowledge of Chinese language beforehand, your disclaimer could also mislead them. Maybe you're also Chinese speaker(Cantonese perhaps?), but you obviously don't have proper knowledge of Mandarin and Chinese language in general.

"Mandarin" just literally refers to common tongue or official tongue(官話) in Chinese. Modern Mandarin(現代官話) is based on the Qing dynasty Mandarin(清朝官話), and Qing Mandarin is based on Ming dynasty Mandarin(明朝官話), Ming Mandarin is based on Medieval Mandarin(中古官話), and Medieval Mandarin is based on Old Mandarin(上古官話), and Old Mandarin was the common tongue of Han dynasty and 3K period, and most of all, they and we are all still writing Chinese Characters(漢字) to modern days, never stop, especially Traditional Chinese(正體字), there is a clear and unbroken succession line of Mandarin and Chinese languages in general, you can't imply like they have no connection at all.

Today we can still use Modern Mandarin to read Han dynasty poems, to teach them, even to create them, it's still completely readable and rhymed, because it's written in the same language, that's how we do it in schools other than HK and Macau. The major difference is when we read them in Cantonese or few other dialects, it could be rhymed more because they preserve more checked tone(入聲). If you don't even know what checked tone is, then you obviously are not qualified to judge Chinese language.

This is not the same case like saying English didn't exist in Roman era, since Britons in Roman era really didn't speak the same language as English, not just the same language in different stages.

If you want to make such ambiguous assertive claim like they didn't exist, then it's not just Modern Mandarin didn't exist in Han dynasty, Modern Cantonese also didn't exist in Han dynasty, Modern Hakka, Minnan and other dialects also didn't exist back then. You can't claim that if a language has some changes in different periods, then they didn't exist, that's not true, it's not like modern mandarin is completely different language to old mandarin. No living language is forever unchanged, only dead language that nobody speaks anymore is unchanged forever, but that's not the case for Chinese.

This has to be clarified since you brought this up.

[AngryChinesEDOTAER]

WOR(RY) (A)LONE, HAHA