Thanks for clarifying, Freeshadow. The names of the girls were Ksenia and Tirel. I did okay with the 'Ks' even though most of my colleagues didn't, but I pronounced the e like 'ay' and kept getting told that was not *quite* right. Most of the other staff called her Ka-senee-ya which, from what my tutoring student's mother told me, is not right at all.
As for Tirel, it's t-long ee-r-bird chirp sound, but we may call her teer-ee-al :-)
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