[eozoon]

I'm from HK, the sounds in my name only really make sense in Cantonese - it is difficult to pronounce in most Chinese dialect, even I get stuck trying to say it in Mandarin myself.

So when I'm with non-Cantonese speaking people, I go by a random Anglo name I picked for myself decades ago. Honestly, I feel more attached to that name than any non-Cantonese pronunciation of my legal name.

It gets annoying when some well meaning people insist that they must learn how to pronounce my "real name", it leaves me two choices:

A) Lie and say that their attempt is good, and resign to never knowing if they're calling me for the rest of time, or

B) Repeat it dozens of time until they give up, and sometimes have them complain that they never encountered those sounds in their Chinese 101 class...

So while I think it's good to make an effort to pronounce names correctly, it's probably better to give up after a few honest attempt, if the person you are addressing don't mind.