Forvo.com is a great website that features native speakers pronouncing words or names from all over the world. Apparently Vincent Van Gogh's name, which most of us lazy English speakers pronounce Van Go or Van Goff, is really pronounced closer to Van Hoch. You have to get really guttural with the GH.
Here's how it
sounds. Make sure you hit the arrow with
Juansi at the bottom of the page or else you'll get a German version.
Here's another from the
vggallery.comand yet another from a website I've just discovered called
ingolo.com
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