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

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

Postby mmmason8967 » December 13th, 2014 8:44 am

You write your name the way it is pronounced, so I think your name is ジャン.

I'm an English speaker and don't know Turkish. But I believe that Can is pronounced like "Jan" and not like "Kan". Katakana is phonetic, so it will be ジャン and not カン.

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

Postby thenightt37_503143 » December 13th, 2014 9:02 am

mmmason8967 wrote:You write your name the way it is pronounced, so I think your name is ジャン.

I'm an English speaker and don't know Turkish. But I believe that Can is pronounced like "Jan" and not like "Kan". Katakana is phonetic, so it will be ジャン and not カン.

マイケル


Yeah, the reading of both languages(Turkish and Japanese) are same.
Thank you.

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

Postby community.japanese » December 14th, 2014 8:50 am

マイケル san,
今日は。
どうもありがとうございます。

thenightt37 さん、
Can I call you ジャンさん from now on?

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

Postby thenightt37_503143 » December 15th, 2014 5:06 am

community.japanese wrote:マイケル san,
今日は。
どうもありがとうございます。

thenightt37 さん、
Can I call you ジャンさん from now on?

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由紀-さん、
はい。Sure. (^▽^)

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

Postby community.japanese » December 15th, 2014 7:07 am

ジャンさん
ありがとうございます。分かりました。

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

Postby tajroycalhoun » December 16th, 2014 11:05 pm

Hey everybody,

I'm relatively new here, and was looking for help on how to say my name in Japanese / write my name is katakana. I have a very untraditional name.

My name is TajRoy Duane Calhoun (or just TajRoy).

If my first name looks hard to pronounce, it really isn't.
Taj is like. . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA-vL8O75zM
And Roy is a simply as it seems. Just Royal without the al.

Would Taj be タジ or タジュ
And would Roy be ロ or ロー (or ロウ) or ロイ or ロユ

Also, are middle names used in Japanese?

I would be so grateful for any help!
こんにちは皆様

カルフーンタジロイです

どうぞよろしくお願いします

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

Postby community.japanese » December 18th, 2014 4:14 am

TajRoy Duane Calhoun san,

Konnichiwa.
Thank you for the question.
Firstly your first name, it would be タジロイ or タージロイ.
You can choose one is close your original name.

Second, Japanese native speakers don’t have middle names however, if you want to use yours, of course you can tell that to Japanese people.

Third, katakana is phonetic. Unfortunately I am not sure how to pronounce your middle name and family name so I can’t tell you how to write them in Japanese. If you tell me the pronunciations, I will tell you them in Japanese as I did for your first name.


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

Postby mmmason8967 » December 18th, 2014 8:30 am

community.japanese wrote:Firstly your first name, it would be タジロイ or タージロイ.
You can choose one is close your original name.

Duane is conventionally written as ヂュアン. Personally, I think it ought to be ヂュエイン but sometimes there is already a convention and you just have to go along with it. For example, London (the capital city of England) is conventioally written as ロンドン but phonetically it really ought to be ランドン.

Calhoun is written as カルフーン. The fu in the middle is pronounced somewhere between "hu" and "fu".

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

Postby community.japanese » December 21st, 2014 11:08 am

マイケルさん、
今日は。
そうですね。ロンドンはすでに決まっていますからランドンではいけません。
しかし、インターネットがインタネットになるように変わる時や両方使っていい時もあります。
そして、「ヂュ」はほとんど使われない字ですからジュの方がいいと思います。

That’s right. Writing London is already decided so it must be ロンドン not ランドン.
However, like インターネットbecomes インタネット or using both of them is sometimes ok.
Then ヂュ is hardly used so ジュ may be better.
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Re: What's my name in Japanese? (make requests here!)

Postby Aki_no_Kage » December 23rd, 2014 7:16 pm

Konnichiwa!

Can you tell me my name in Japanese? It is Jonathan Herrington.

Thank you very much!!
ありがとうございます

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

Postby mmmason8967 » December 24th, 2014 8:27 am

秋の影さん、こんにちは。
Aki-no-Kage-san, konnichiwa.

秋の影さんの名前は、「ジョナサン・ヘリントン」です。
秋の影さん の 名前 は、「ジョナサン ・ ヘリントン」 です。
Aki-no-Kage-san no namae wa "ジョナサン ・ ヘリントン" desu.
Your name will be ジョナサン ・ ヘリントン.

ジョ ナ サ ン ⇒ Jo-na-sa-n

ヘ リ ン ト ン ⇒ He-ri-n-to-n

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

Postby Aki_no_Kage » December 24th, 2014 3:26 pm

mmmason8967 wrote:秋の影さん、こんにちは。
Aki-no-Kage-san, konnichiwa.

秋の影さんの名前は、「ジョナサン・ヘリントン」です。
秋の影さん の 名前 は、「ジョナサン ・ ヘリントン」 です。
Aki-no-Kage-san no namae wa "ジョナサン ・ ヘリントン" desu.
Your name will be ジョナサン ・ ヘリントン.

ジョ ナ サ ン ⇒ Jo-na-sa-n

ヘ リ ン ト ン ⇒ He-ri-n-to-n

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Arigato gozaimasu!
ありがとうございます

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

Postby community.japanese » December 25th, 2014 7:09 am

マイケルさん、
どうもありがとうございます。

Aki_no_Kage san,
Konnichiwa.
I agree with マイケルさん.

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

Postby frank_is_amazing17_503466 » December 29th, 2014 5:16 pm

こんにちわ,
僕の名前は Frank Liu
My first name is フランク i think
and my last name is ???
Help please.

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

Postby community.japanese » December 31st, 2014 7:44 am

frank_is_amazing17 san,
こんにちは。
The last syllable of Konnichiwa is は because it’s particle.
Your family name is リュー.
フランク リュー さんです。

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