How to say American names

[pixuli]

agreed with MMM.It goes to all foreign words. some examples;

Beth=Besu
Emily=Emirii
Amy=Eimii
peace=piisu
shop guide=shiroppu gaido
toilet paper=toiretto peepaa
story snap=sutoriito sunappu
gothic=goshikku
style=sutairi

and so on~

p.s;
baby the stars shine bright=
beibii da sutaadu shiiso buraito

[lpdirufangirl09]

Originally Posted by YaksokuDa

R and L are mixed. So Kelly would be said as "Kerry". That's just an eg.
To learn the accent you will have to learn the sounds of hiragana.

Hiragana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kerry desu!! lol.


my name's Kelly. i do that to make nicknames for my friend [switch L with R]
but so, If your name was Kerry, it'd be said Kelly?

[MMM]

Originally Posted by lpdirufangirl09

Kerry desu!! lol.


my name's Kelly. i do that to make nicknames for my friend [switch L with R]
but so, If your name was Kerry, it'd be said Kelly?

Great question Kelly. And I think you are starting to get it.

"Kerry" and "Kelly" are pronounced exactly the same in Japanese.

We don't have that sound in English, so there are no letters to write it properly with with English alphabet.

[lpdirufangirl09]

Originally Posted by MMM

Great question Kelly. And I think you are starting to get it.

"Kerry" and "Kelly" are pronounced exactly the same in Japanese.

We don't have that sound in English, so there are no letters to write it properly with with English alphabet.

ahh! i think i understand. so L is usually replaced with R and R is usually replaced with L?

[MMM]

Kelly, check out this post I made earlier. It's isn't "switched" as much as both the R sound and the L sound are pronounced in the same way, and it is a sound (one of the only in Japanese) that doesn't exist in English.

Originally Posted by MMM

R and L aren't "mixed" so much as they share the same sound, which is a sound in between the two. (Where on L you put your tongue at the tip of your top teeth, and R your tongue doesn't move...for the Japanese R/L sound your tongue taps the top back part of yor front teeth.

Japanese has fewer individual sounds than English names must be "morphed" to fit into the sounds available, and so they can be spelled using Japanese writing.

The "meaning" of an American name won't make any difference because foreign names are written in the katakana "alphabet" reserved for foreign names and loan-words, among other things. Only native Japanese get to use kanji in their names.

[lpdirufangirl09]

Originally Posted by MMM

Kelly, check out this post I made earlier. It's isn't "switched" as much as both the R sound and the L sound are pronounced in the same way, and it is a sound (one of the only in Japanese) that doesn't exist in English.

okay i understand now! =] arigotou!

[MMM]

[HIalchemist]

My name is Perris so to translate it u make a combanation of which characters make it sound closer

EX.
leonardo=reonarudo
Perris=Peresu
Liz=Rizu

In japanese you'll say it so fast that [r] sounds like an [L]

[Jsleazoid]

so then...
allie and arrie would sound exactly the same
^.^
cooli

[HIalchemist]

Yep! VIKUTORI!