“Chick-cent-me-hai” is how I learned it, with the -lyi ending functionally silent

In every talk, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi is consigned to Mike "Last-Name-I-cannot-pronounce".  Have to feel for the guy, really.  Hint: It sounds close to "chick-sent-me-high-lee", in case you want to set things right in your next talk about flow.

didnt expect a hungarian course here haha, but @jmaaloe’s way is slightly closer, except you do pronounce and even push the -lyi at the end too 😉

Your way was how I had learned it too :)  I ended up referring to what the pronunciation in Wikipedia indicated.

also, as ‘Csík’ includes a long ‘í’ I d suggest swapping the ‘chick’ to ‘cheek’

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