Me too! My lips go all poochy. 
And thanks to my mom - I stick an extra H in “asphalt” so it comes out “ash-phalt”.
I found another word I can’t pronounce. I was on the phone with my boss and my boss’s boss, and I tried to say “Albemarle” (It’s a city in NC), and I just couldn’t. It came out “Arbemarle”, and once “Arbemar”.
Unless I’m extremely careful, tangential always becomes tan genital.
Mille-feulle is a hurdle for me at a French patisserie.
Mnemonic
This is a little ridiculous, but I can’t say “oil” without a Southern accent. Unless, I try really, really hard, it comes out “awl.” If I do try really, really hard, it comes out with two syllables-- “oy-ul.” I don’t have much of a pronounced accent otherwise
Oh I just thought of another - horseradish. It always comes out as “horsh-radiss” unless I conciously think about it.
French-Canadian here 
Laure is closer to the english “Lore” than what you’re working with.
So - start with “Lore”
Then, open up the “o” sound so that it’s closer to the “o” of “box” (in between an “o” and the “ah” sound).
Instead of closing the “re” sound, leave it open, and close the “r” at the back of your throat (that’s the Quebec “r”, which is not rolled, nor is it the “errr” sound you hear in english).
Work on it, damnit
Elly
… Oh! Extra tip on the “r” – try doing that silly sound people make before they spit (in comedic settings - the Rrrrrr-ptui! thing…) - it’s at the back of the throat, not at the front/pulled like the spanish rolled “r”, or round like the english “r”, which is very similar to the mouth position you use for a “w” sound.
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Does it show I teach singing, often to young children who need some speech therapy work?
Tee hee.
E.
How exactly do you say it then? I’ve always said it like on-oui (oui as in yes in French) Is that right?
Oo…that one’s Hungarian. In Hungarian it’s pronounced “CHEE-lawg-HED-yee.” (The "ee"s are a bit shorter than in English.) “Csillag” means star. “Hegy” means hill or mountain. “-i” is the adjectival ending.
But the name may have been Anglicized by the time you encountered it.
Oo…Polish (my ethnicity.) “SHCHESS-nih” and “rah-JEE-von” (Stress in Polish is almost always on the penultimate syllable, with the exception of some Greek words.) “Szczesny” is an archaic Polish word meaning “lucky or fortunate.” Similar to the modern Polish “szczęśliwy,”
Anyhow, I’m not saying your pronunciations are wrong—just that they are different in the original language.
At the age of 26, I’m still running into words I’ve only seen and not heard. I recently was corrected on my pronunciation of solder. D’oh.
Polish names get me. No clue how to pronounce them.
La Jolla, CA is pronounced the Spanish way - La HOY-a.
Conscientious gives me a lisp. It has too many shushes in it. I want to say con-thee-enthuth or something.
Another, very common, Vietnamese name (please help me on this): Ng
Also, if I may offer gripes about others’ mispronouncements, in hopes of edifying some perps:
coup de grace is coo der grahss, not coop dee grah
same with Havre de Grace (Md) (Havre is like (Bret) Favre)-good luck, USA’ers)
asterisk is ass ter risk, not ass ter ik
et cetera has no k in it and the c is like an s and one should not say “…and et cetera” as the “et” means “and”
height does not end in th so it should be pronounced like “hyte” not “hyth”
I know a girl with the last name Ng, and she pronounces it just like Ing. Like, running, without the “run” part.
I never pronounce “sandwich” correctly for some reason. It comes out something like “sehwich”, with the first syllable being slightly nasal. I can say it if I think about it, but when I’m just speaking normally, “sehwich” is what comes out.
Yes, this sounds (to my ears) like how it should be pronounced.
Indeed, he was an American by more than one generation.
I have to admit I’m reaching back 20 years with these, so my memory of the pronounciations I was taught is chancy. I certainly paid attention at the time as one was a girlfriend and the other one might have become one if things had gone differently!
For those who are curious, Rezakhanlou is Iranian.
That pronunciation of “Csillaghegyi” is the first time I’ve seen the English version of a name more difficult than the original.
Holy moley! Thanks! I’ve always said it as “Bi-opic,” too. I know what it means but it’s just never occured to me to pronounce it “bio-pic.”