How to write your name in Japanese

[Columbine]

Originally Posted by spicytuna

Ok, here's a quiz.

Can anyone figure out my (first) name?

家根須

ya-ne-su

Janice?

[Aquilus]

I think this is pretty far away from my real name,
wonder if you can figure it out

ア-ン

[spicytuna]

Originally Posted by Columbine

ya-ne-su

Janice?

The 2nd and 3rd characters are correct.

[Columbine]

Originally Posted by spicytuna

The 2nd and 3rd characters are correct.

Yakonsu? No idea how to transliterate that to a name though~ :/

[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by Aquilus

I think this is pretty far away from my real name,
wonder if you can figure it out

ア-ン

Ahn. But that is not German.

[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by spicytuna

Ok, here's a quiz.

Can anyone figure out my (first) name?

家根須

Kenneth. And PS it's wrong. If you don't read the first two as やね (as you already said you don't by saying only the second and third are correct), then you read them as かこん.

[Aquilus]

Originally Posted by KyleGoetz

Ahn. But that is not German.

no that isn't my name.
Personally I think there is a better way to write it, but this is what the website said.

[MMM]

Originally Posted by Aquilus

no that isn't my name.
Personally I think there is a better way to write it, but this is what the website said.

I don't understand. ア-ン isn't really a name I am familiar with....but if your name is Ann it would be アン

[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by Aquilus

no that isn't my name.
Personally I think there is a better way to write it, but this is what the website said.

What is your name? What the website told you is wrong.

[spicytuna]

Originally Posted by KyleGoetz

Kenneth. And PS it's wrong. If you don't read the first two as やね (as you already said you don't by saying only the second and third are correct), then you read them as かこん.

Yes, Kenneth is correct and the kanji are simply used as 当て字 so there's no right or wrong... although I was wrong not to have mentioned it in the first place.