How Do Foreigners to Remember Each Other's Names Just now, as I was searching for information, I saw the name of a foreigner which was Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre. He was a French revolutionist and one of the important leaders of French Revolution. The first reaction when I looked at his name was that how the French to call and remember his name. Maybe my intelligence quotient is so limited that I can not solve this little problem by myself. He is known as "Robespierre", his family name, in China. In addition to this problem, I have another one. As we all know that English, French and many others are alphabetic languages, numerous words and names can be composed by letters. I am quite sure that a foreigner must have failed to pronounce a stranger's name at the first glance. I think it is not uncommon. When an university teacher was rolling call, if he found that there were many names which he was not sure the correct pronunciations of them, how would he handle this situation?