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What's my name in Japanese? (make requests here!)

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Postby dinaga1828 » September 15th, 2012 10:33 pm

Natsuko-san, thank you very much for the welcome! :)

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Postby natsukoy9313 » September 16th, 2012 6:09 am

DinoTrnka san,
dou itashimashite :wink:

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Postby motoxkid20058640 » September 21st, 2012 11:01 am

My name is Aaron Symes, would anyone be so kind as to translate it for me please :).

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Postby mmmason8967 » September 21st, 2012 1:01 pm

motoxkid20058640 wrote:My name is Aaron Symes, would anyone be so kind as to translate it for me please :).

I think it is エーロン・サイムズ, which is E-e-ro-n Sa-i-mu-zu.

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Postby natsukoy9313 » September 21st, 2012 1:16 pm

Like マイケルsan wrote, エーロン・サイムス(or ズ) could be one way.
Also, many Aaron-san and Arron-san adopt アーロン for the first part. As you like :wink:

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Postby motoxkid20058640 » September 21st, 2012 1:42 pm

Thanks for the responses!

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Postby natsukoy9313 » September 22nd, 2012 6:53 am

You're welcome! :wink:

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Re: What's my name in Japanese? (make requests here!)

Postby radu9976 » October 7th, 2012 3:39 am

What about mine? :)

Radu Raicea

Pronounced:
Rah-doo
Rah-i-tcha

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Re: What's my name in Japanese? (make requests here!)

Postby mmmason8967 » October 7th, 2012 8:06 am

I think your name is probably ラードゥ・ライチャ, which is ra-a-du ra-i-cha.

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Re: What's my name in Japanese? (make requests here!)

Postby carliwilcox7927 » October 7th, 2012 11:37 pm

My name is Carli Wilcox.
I think it will be カッルイ ワコス

Also I have a friend named Kelly and her son Pat.
They would like to know what their names would be.

あり儀と ございます!!

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Re: What's my name in Japanese? (make requests here!)

Postby mmmason8967 » October 8th, 2012 7:40 am

carliwilcox7927 wrote:My name is Carli Wilcox.
I think it will be カッルイ ワコス

I think your name is カーリー・ウイルコクス, which is ka-a-ri-i u-i-ru-ko-ku-su.

Also I have a friend named Kelly and her son Pat.
They would like to know what their names would be.

Kelly is けりー, which is ke-ri-i.

Pat is パト, which is pa-to.

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Re: What's my name in Japanese? (make requests here!)

Postby radu9976 » October 8th, 2012 6:38 pm

mmmason8967 wrote:I think your name is probably ラードゥ・ライチャ, which is ra-a-du ra-i-cha.

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Ra-a-du has three syllables, while your translation has four.

Same goes with Ra-i-cha...

Can you explain? ^_^

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Re: What's my name in Japanese? (make requests here!)

Postby mmmason8967 » October 8th, 2012 7:29 pm

Yes, I'll try to explain how it works:-

ラ  ra
ー  symbol that means the preceding vowel (in this case 'a') should be held twice as long
ドゥ combination pronounced as 'du'; it's made up of ド (do) and a small-size ウ (u).
ラ  ra
イ  i
チャ combination pronounced as 'cha', made of チ (chi) and a small-size ヤ (ya).

The combinations are written as a normal-size kana followed by a small-size kana, so it's ドゥ, not ドウ, and it's チャ, not チヤ. Although they're made of two kana, these combinations are pronounced as a single syllable, so although each name looks like four syllables, there's actually only three in each one.

The ドゥ combination is a special one used for western words and names. The first character is 'to' and the two little marks indicate that it's voiced, meaning that it changes from 'to' to 'do'. This applies to all the 't' characters: the two marks indicated that the 't' sound is replaced by a 'd' sound. The 't' characters are ta, ti, tu, te and to but as you probably already know, 'ti' is pronounced 'chi' and 'tu' is pronounced 'tsu'. The voiced version of the 'tsu' character pronounced 'zu' and not 'du' as you might expect, so the combination ドゥ is used to represent the 'du' sound in western words and names.

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Re: What's my name in Japanese? (make requests here!)

Postby jpcw20128731 » October 22nd, 2012 11:14 pm

Hello not been learning long and would love to know my name in japanese if some would be so kind to translate if for me
carl ward :)

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Re: What's my name in Japanese? (make requests here!)

Postby natsukoy9313 » October 23rd, 2012 4:56 am

Hi, everyone!
Wow, マイケルsan, very good advice! I think ラードゥ・ライチャ and ケリー are perfect.

I have other suggestions;
Carli Wilcox: カーリ・ウィルコックス
Pat: パット

And, Carl Ward san, is your surname pronounced rather "wa-a-d" or "wo-o-d"?
Carl Ward: カール・ワード (if "wa-a-d") or カール・ウォード (if "wo-o-d")

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