Friday, October 28, 2011

Working abroad in Japan. Names issue.?

Question:


This came up in a conversation. Japanese people have trouble pronouncing my North American name (Katharine) and I was wondering if I could adopt a nickname that might be easier to pronounce for Japanese people. Is that permissible?

If so, is there anything similar to Katharine that I could use?

ありがとうございます

Answer:


No. not hard to pronounce your name

Katharine is a common name in English. And there is a Japanese way to write it like キャサリン. Its pronunciation is slightly different from the original Katharine. But anyway, we can pronounce it.

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