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 Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:40 pm
Pistil I've never had a different name... even in grade 4 in french class when we were 'translating our names to French' I was like "What's mine? What's mine?" Jennifer. In french? Jennifer. stare I have the same problem...my name is Chantal, it's already french cry weird name is Dirk a friend of mine, he's been called d**k and Jerk, because of people confusing his name, it's pretty funny.
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 11:41 pm
The first school I started taking German in didn't highly encourage us to pick names, but when I switched schools my new German teacher did. I told her I didn't really want one so she picked one out for me. She picked Eva because it was one of the shortest on the list. It turns out that I love it. My last name is really long so it's nice. I hate how people Americanize it though. If I ever have a daughter I want to name her Eva...not Ava. Oh...and I convinced my mom to name her bird Eva. I wanted the name to live on since they don't do German names in college. sad
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:40 am
judobabe Pistil I've never had a different name... even in grade 4 in french class when we were 'translating our names to French' I was like "What's mine? What's mine?" Jennifer. In french? Jennifer. stare I have the same problem...my name is Chantal, it's already french cry weird name is Dirk a friend of mine, he's been called d**k and Jerk, because of people confusing his name, it's pretty funny. But Jennifer isn't a french name, it's welsh (from Genevieve (sp?)) XD
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:43 am
The weirdest names I've heard of don't belong to people, but places.
Like: Boy-smashed-head-in Buffalo Jump (story goes: Boy fell over and smashed his head in. Go figure) in Alberta, Canada.
Or that mountain (?) in New Zealand (?) that is one very long word, but translated to english is pretty much a story. XD
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:44 pm
I liked the name Aurora i used for spanish in elementry school.
I love cutsey Japanese names. We had to do a project for a class, where you pretend to be a person from another country writing a letter to someone. I picked Japan and my name was Reiko.
In french class I was Karine.
my chinese name that got english-ified is Kai lin, but my mom decided to change it to irene.
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Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:42 am
My Chinese name is 昭怡 . No one actually calls me that though.
It's probably because when I write my full name in English, the transliteration of my Chinese name (the Cantonese transliteration is "Chiu Yee" and that's how I write it) becomes my middle name, so naturally everyone will just use my first name.
At least I don't have my English given name as a middle name, which would defeat the whole point of having one.
I like the fact that "昭" means clear and "怡" means cheerful, but "Kerry" means "the dark" so my English name is opposite of my Chinese name.
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Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:04 pm
www.blogthings.com/frenchnamegenerator/
slightly off topic, but still fun.
If you cant decide on your own name.
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Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:35 pm
Your French Name is: Alavda Chretien surprised
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 4:08 pm
Ooh, mine's Rochelle Marchal.
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:43 pm
Well, my real name is Felicia (Fa-LEE-sha) which means happy. I think it might be spanish, but I'm not spanish. I don't know what name I would choose for a foriegn language name. But I'm trying to learn French. I want to learn Japanese, Latin, Irish and other languages related to those. So I don't know.....
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:41 am
I talked to a girl on Gaia who had lived in both Poland, Belgium and now in the USA. However when I mentioned the name "Johan" she had never heard about it. I found it a bit odd as it is one of the most common names in Sweden, where I live, and it's not far from either Poland or Belgium. In which parts of the world does the name exist? Just Scandinavian countries?
Names are funny. I am named Nike after the Greek godess of victory, but of course not many people see that connection and I've gotten quite many people pronounce my name in odd ways. Oh well, it's cute to see them trying <3
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Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 9:59 pm
I'm trying to learn Japanese so the name I would pick would either be Sachiko (like this name), it means blessed/blissful child or Akina which means flower, both are very pretty.
When I learn Spainish again latter, i'll pick mercedes (sp?) cause that was the I was supposed to have but my mom named me Danielle instead, which is hebrew for "God is my Judge"
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:19 am
Felucca I talked to a girl on Gaia who had lived in both Poland, Belgium and now in the USA. However when I mentioned the name "Johan" she had never heard about it. I found it a bit odd as it is one of the most common names in Sweden, where I live, and it's not far from either Poland or Belgium. In which parts of the world does the name exist? Just Scandinavian countries? I currently live in Canada but have previously lived in Israel and Russia, and the name Johan doesn't sound foreign to me. domokun Then again I get more exposure to other languages/cultures/names than the other kids in my class, so... sweatdrop crying
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:29 am
Ute is my German name. I picked 'cause I thought it was a cool name.
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 4:10 pm
My name in Spanish class in Marina, which really irritates me because i really would rather just be called my regular name and she keeps messing up and caling me martina at random.
In my french class i get to keep my name megan! Yay for my name! I love my french teacher!
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