Congratulations to Robert Kohls for the Pronunciation Awareness Project

Author: Chris Conroy
February 20, 2026

We're proud to share Associate Professor Robert Kohl's work on the Pronunciation Awareness Project! This project aims to help our SF State Faculty and Tutors engage with our multilingual students, highlight multiple languages. Today, we have a series of videos to share that highlight the pronunciation of names and the associated gender identity of these names in Hindi, Mandarin Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese. Below you'll find these videos, as well as an overview of this project from Robert Kohl directly. Thank you very much to Robert and the speakers in these videos for your work!

Hindi

Thai

Mandarin Chinese

Vietnamese