Indian female names, how they are pronounced

Assume you have names like these, and you get pissed off by the way they are pronounced by Americans. You try to correct em, but in vain. Whose fault is it? Yours or americans'?

Not with americans, of course.

vinita vɪ 'ni tə or vi nee ta
prathiba prə ˈθi bə or pra theeba
nisha, niʃə or neesha (recall visa)
archana, ɑr ˈkeɪ nə (recall arcana); ar sounds like car, cha like Kay, na like nah or indian na.
anita, a nee ta (recall Anita Dunn)

vandana, van-dan-a (like can) væn dæn ə

The trick: look at the middle syllable, if it is 3-syllable.

There are many phonlogical stuff involved in why they are pr'ced the way they are.

Metre of spoken english forces ya to stress the middle syllable in a 3-syllable word; depeding upon which vowel occurs in the spelling of your name, we can predict the pronunciation of that vowel. Like -ni- in vinita leads to nee.

If you see consonant clusters, you gotta split acorss syllables. Closed syllables (like CVC) follows its own patterns (like van has cat vowel sound)

That's why vandita is pronounced as Van--dee-ta; contrast the american pronunciation of pratiba, which contains a in first syllable. The sound of the first /a/ in vandita and pratiba are different, because of consonant-cluster, syllabification, etc.

Just remebering pronunciations of thousands of words does no good, amigo, since it is unproductive;whenever you see a word, predict the pronunciation, then you have the same ability as native speaker does posess.

Here is a test: (1) how do ya pronounce the gibberish word aptrology, why its pronunciation doesn't follow the pattern of astrology?

(2) Why 'o' in posterity has cot vowel sound?

Don't ask me for answers: focus on the problems and learn subseqntly