To pronounce the h in my name when I speak French?

[KellysZeros]

My surname begins with an h (like Henderson or Harris). When I speak French to French people, am I unreasonable to say "je m'appelle Madame Harris"? Or should I say "Madame 'arris"?

Say it with the H - that is how you say your own name, though expect that you will get 'arris back!

By that reasoning wouldn't you leave out the 's' at the end too, so it would je m'appelle 'arri' ? We dont expect someone with an international name to adapt how they pronounce it so why would they expect you to?

I just wonder when I say it, I sound aggressive, as I go from a french accent, to a forceful HARRIS

I lived in Spain for a while and my first name is very difficult for Spanish speakers to say. I started off trying to teach people to say it properly but soon gave up and just dropped the last bit of the name people had issues with. Spanish people struggle with hard J/G sounds so you'll hear "Yennifer" instead of "Jennifer". If you're a Jennifer in Spain, you just have to accept "Yenni" or "Yennifer" or call yourself something else entirely ;-)

Well a 'H' sound isn't too aggressive like a 'J' or hard 'G' as mentioned above so I personally would introduce myself as 'Mme Harris' but not correct people if they use 'Mme Arris' back. It's just a pronunciation difference, it's not like they are getting your name wrong, they're just pronouncing it in their own accent.

Like when I read an article saying 'we're all saying Zara wrong!' (The clothes shop, not the name in general) The person writing the article said they'd just got back from Barcelona and everyone there pronounced it like 'thara' with a very soft 'z' sound. But that is simply the Catalan accent and I hoped people weren't going to suddenly start pronouncing Zara in a put-on accent! If you're speaking English, you pronounce Paris with the 's' (if you're speaking French, obviously, you don't) or Copenhagen like Co-pen-hay-gen not Co-pen-haa-gen.

You are quite within your rights to pronounce your name as you like. However, I live in Italy and if I pronounce my name in the correct way it is ALWAYS written down wrongly. To save myself time, I just pronounce it the Italian way now.

I say my name as they would pronounce it as does DH (different surnames) it sounds too clunky to add in a completely different sound in the local language and is even more confusing for the person you're speaking to. Shame that I have a name that sounds awful in French! This is to people I don't know btw, friends know how to pronounce my name and speak some English so it fits in with the Franglais we usually speak better.

My name is Megan. When I lived in France no one understood me until I said "May-gann" like the car. In the end I just started introducing myself like that.

Say it as you would normally. Then spell it if necessary.

I lived in France for 10+ years and my surname begins with a H .... after a while I just pronounced it the french way, and if it was a hotel, doctors, anyone that would need to read or write the name, systematically spell it ... so if I were to take HArris as an example, i usually said "c'est Madame 'arris, h-a-r-r-i-s"
If i pronounced it as I would at home, I just got too many confused looks