Travel with Angela Lansbury: Convert your name when travelling in real life or on the internet

How do you convert your name into something which people from other countries recognize, say correctly and spell correctly? And remember!

You can convert it directly by translating. Shorten it. Or use a nickname.

CHINESE

My name, Angela can be shortened to Angel, or to Ann. In Chinese to An, which means peace.

Here are some translations and associations of well known names.

Trevor - Welsh for village.

Unisex names

Some names can be unisex. This can cause confusion. Or permit anonymity.

For example:

Pat

Francis (male) Frances (Female)

Popular names

Mohammed - Muslim males

Marie - French girls, therefore often combined with a second name, sometimes a hyphenated second name such as Marie Antoinette

Useful Websites (alphabetically)

https://babynames.com/names/search.php

://www.behindthename.com/

JAPANESE

https://japanga.com/ (Japanese name converter gives me this:

Angela in katakana is アンジェラ. This is the conventional way to represent foreign names in Japanese.
Angela in romaji is Anjera This is how you would pronounce it using the roman alphabet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Translators_available

About the Author

Angela Lansbury is on Facebook and the Facebook polyglots page. She trains speakers and businesses in the use of correct English.

About the Author

About Angela The Author

The Author - Quick Quotations

Angela Lansbury B A Hons is the author of ten books by regular publishers plus another ten self-published books.

About Angela The Speaker & Trainer

Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Vice President Public Relations, Immediate Past President.

Former Area Director S3. Club Coach for Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club.

Also Member of: TCA Toastmasters Club; Singapore Online Dynamic; Harrovians UK

The recent meeting of BHA included Garen Tee on using story telling in business, on bha.learncool.sg . Also an educational on using Powerpoint for posters.

Next BHA meetings, (subject to revision)

1 (Saturday, May 15th, was 2 pm Singapore time, postponed because of national speaking contest.)

After Vesak day and Hari Raya:

Postponed to Saturday May 29th, 2021, at 2pm. Login to bha.learncool.sg earlier.

2 Next June meetings 1st Wednesday evening June 2nd at 7 pm Singapore time.

3 Third Saturday afternoon, June 19th, Singapore time. Thanks to the old team and Inauguration of New Team.

Special speech with slides about teamwork in sport and Toastmasters International and life, by the President of West Coast Toastmasters Club who often help BHA with workshops and invite us to give speeches at their club.

Inauguration of new committee by incoming Area Director of S