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

About Angela The Blogger 

Angela has several blogs on speeches, comedy and song writing and organizing, writing intermittently, but writes almost daily on these three:

travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

See next post on sculptor Tom Harvey.

Please share links to your favourite posts. 

The information on Toastmasters is updated regularly.

Your Name And My Name or Nickname In Chinese (Mandarin): Ann, Happy and Lucky

Problem
How do I get my name translated into Chinese? Years ago I paid to have my name written in Chinese in calligraphy at a tourist spot. I was upset when I had it done again and found a totally different drawing.

Answer
However, a friend told me that since the name could be written many ways, both of the artists' works were equally valid.

Angela has no direct translation. I asked somebody to give me a translation of Angel. I didn't like the sound and it was not memorable.

In Singapore in Orchard Road, the equivalent of London's Oxford Street, the main department store complex is called Ngee Ann city, after the founder-owner. I thought of combining my name with An.

I asked a Grab taxi driver to translate my name. I asked him for a translation of Lucky Ann.

It comes out like this:
Pronunciation (sound)
Sing Onn Ann. (That is easy to remember. Sing on or oon, Ann.)
The spelling is:
XIN YUN AN.

Lucky is a value judgement.

Happy is more of an accurate description.

Happy Ann becomes
Kai Sing An (pronunciation) and the spelling is
KAI XIN AN.

I could be Kai Sing An from Singapore. In a foreign language you have a chance to pick a new name or nickname, and market yourself with any name which brings you luck or makes you happy.

The Ngee Ann City Shopping Mall, located along shopping street Orchard Road, Singapore. (2MP version)
Date	December 2006
Source	Own work
Author	Img by Calvin Teo
Permission (Reusing this file)	CC-BY-SA-2.5, GFDL

Angela Lansbury
Travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.