Tips:

• Pronounce this word, which is a man’s name, as two syllables, stressing the first one.
• Pronounce the letter “i” like the name of the letter “e”—
  /i/.
• Pronounce the letter “a” as the weak schwa vowel
  /ə/.
• Use the y-like consonant glide
  /j/ to link from the frist to the second syllable—from
  /i/ to
  /ə/.