shanghaigale Posted December 26, 2007 Report Share Posted December 26, 2007 My wife worked in Singapore for 2 years before I met her. They insisted on calling her an English name. She was allowed to pick it and picked Catherine. From the first day I met her in 1998 until now she has answered to that name. I didn't even know her Chinese name for several weeks and she didn't want to be called by it. When we moved to the USA and she obtained citizenship about a year ago she officially Changed her name to Catherine Ye Diener (Ye was her chinese family name) and Diener is my last name. She likes the name Catherine. Even though Hong her first name is quite easy to pronounce she prefers Catherine. When our daughter was born in China in 2001 we named her Rosemary and my wife wanted her to have an English name also.Gale Do you call your gal by her Chinese name or her English name? My gal's name does not easily fit in my mouth ...so I (almost always) call her by her Chinese name...but she seems to like her English name. Xiaoyuan told me that she got her English name Cindy in her English class. I do not know if she picked it or if the name was assigned to her. ...but she likes her English name and might even be proud of it. So now I call her Cindy more often... Do you call your gal by her English or Chinese name? Which does she prefer? Link to comment
Corbin Posted December 26, 2007 Report Share Posted December 26, 2007 I call her Ada or Honey. The last time I tried to say her Chinese name Yanglan, she laughed at the way I said it. Link to comment
BillV 8-16-2004 Posted December 26, 2007 Report Share Posted December 26, 2007 I like my wife's Chinese name Shaoying and would not want an English name for her, my personal preference, family, her work and friends may have difficulty at first but they get use to it and do just fine. We pronounce it in Cantonese since Mandarin sounds a little different. I call her Ying though. Link to comment
chilton747 Posted December 26, 2007 Report Share Posted December 26, 2007 My wife wanted no part of having an English name. Link to comment
yemmie Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 My wife wanted no part of having an English name.My girl is on the fence about it. She loves her name, but is a little afraid that Americans will not accept her as easily if she does not have an American sounding name. I don't think she really needs to worry about it because, where I live there are many people with somewhat foreign sounding names, and most of them were born and raised right here. I prefer her Chinese name; it is beautiful. I either call her by her Chinese name, or I call her Honey, and occasionally Sweetheart. However, if she decides she really wants an English name, she can certainly have one, but I will always call her by her Chinese name. Link to comment
Jason+Joanna Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 When I was introduced to my honey, she used the English name Joanna. Since that was the name we were first introduced under, we have kept using it. Obviously she also has a Chinese name, which I also like very much. So, we use Joanna as more of a nick-name -- not formal. Link to comment
izus Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 (edited) the only time i call her actual name is when we are infront of strangers.like some public place....its usually sweet honey, darling, lovey, babydoll....among many others.w¨¯ de l¨£o p¨® zh¨ng gu¨® m¨ªng zi sh¨¬ ch¨±n y¨¤n which sounds kinda like the bicycle name "Schwinn" with out the SH sound and the Yan is where she gets her enlish name from Anne or Annie B) Edited January 8, 2008 by izus (see edit history) Link to comment
ameriken Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 My wifes Chinese name is Jie, and when we have tried telling others her name, they always pronounce it 'jee-ah', 'jee', 'jeh' and others. We gave up and decided for friends, family, and others, to call her 'Jen.' But in private, I still call her 'boo-boo', 'boo' for short. Link to comment
toolman Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 to make her happy i use her english name, stella. but will sometimes call by chinese name shufen,,i prefer shufen she does not,,she calls me evereything , even forrest gump Link to comment
Shenzhen K-1 Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 I just thought about this, very deeply of course!!! B) I am just waiting to call her Mrs. XXXXXXX!!! Link to comment
IllinoisDave Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 My wifes Chinese name is Jie, and when we have tried telling others her name, they always pronounce it 'jee-ah', 'jee', 'jeh' and others. We gave up and decided for friends, family, and others, to call her 'Jen.' But in private, I still call her 'boo-boo', 'boo' for short. B) Awwww...Ya big lug. Link to comment
ameriken Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 My wifes Chinese name is Jie, and when we have tried telling others her name, they always pronounce it 'jee-ah', 'jee', 'jeh' and others. We gave up and decided for friends, family, and others, to call her 'Jen.' But in private, I still call her 'boo-boo', 'boo' for short. Awwww...Ya big lug. Link to comment
Jay & Ping Posted January 14, 2008 Report Share Posted January 14, 2008 Ping asked me to pick an english name for her! What a hysterical task that was.... We settled on Renee (for renew!). We just couldn't get used to it. "Ping" is so cute and has a snap to it - fits her personality. We abandoned Renee last month. Her Daughter preferrs her english name from class - Suzy. Good thing too. I butcher Yanyue every time.Now that we settled on Ping - do I have to sell my golf clubs? Link to comment
jim_julian Posted January 14, 2008 Report Share Posted January 14, 2008 Nahhh ... it's a great choice Jay. We look forward to meeting her. Link to comment
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