Do you use another name when introducing yourself to people outside your country?

[Sulli Su]

Is this something you do?

[Freighter]

No, my name isn't complicated enough for foreigners to pronounce for me to consider it.

[callipygoustp]

My first thought was "what a bizarre concept" then I laughed at myself as I remembered doing that at parties/bars/etc when I was a kid.

[Flame6]

Eh I guess so. Instead of using Tommy, when I speak in Spanish I'll use the Spanish pronunciation of Thomas.

[shadowmouse]

Many foreign language classes like to hang a name in that language on a person, but it isn't something that has happened to me.

There have been situations here where people had to find something Chinese to call me, for their own comfort, but I never introduce myself that way and none of the attempts to give me "a Chinese name" have made it past the quasi-adoptive daughters.

[conceptKitty]

Nope, my name is Morena at all times.

[Mythic-RaidLead]

I have a Chinese name that I use when I interact with people who are fluent only in Mandarin.

[almarsguides]

In my experience it is common for people in east asia to use “english names” when talking to people from the west because we have difficulty pronouncing their names/words

[Dwarfhamster]

Nope, I just use my name.

[Sunseeker]

I give fake names when ordering food because I get tired of people who can't pronounce "Sean" when I write it or spell it wrong when I say it. So I call myself Bill, or Jim, or John, depending on my mood.

[Xarkan]

Is this something you do?

No..

The opposite however

People in Denmark tend to assume that if you are Danish and there is a Danish pronounciation of your name then that is your name

So i allow people to change my name when speking with people inside my country since it is too much effort to do it any other way

Well i allow people to pronounce a k that is not in the name anyhow

[Muzjhath]

I do not, however my dad tends to go by Chris when outside of the Nordics. Since Christer is hard for barbaric English mouths to pronounce for some reason.

[Katie N]

Yes, my name is Hiền, to foreigners I say I am Katie. xD

I don't bother to correct them when they mispronounce Nguyễn because they never learn.

[Temp name]

My name is fairly hard to pronounce for foreigners.. But no, fuck 'em. There are sounds in my name that you won't find outside of the Nordic countries (At least not in any popular language), so I generally allow for some butchering of the pronunciation, but I refuse to go by my middle name, because I honestly find it funny when people try to pronounce my first name and fail.

[Dwarfhamster]

Yes, my name is Hiền, to foreigners I say I am Katie. xD

I don't bother to correct them when they mispronounce Nguyễn because they never learn.

Nuh-guu-yen

[Rozz]

No, but I do play a game where I go by the last mangled version of my name whenever I order food. It's like playing telephone at this point.

[Monster Hunter]

Yes, my name is Hiền, to foreigners I say I am Katie. xD

I don't bother to correct them when they mispronounce Nguyễn because they never learn.

My dad had a similar loosing battle with his Welsh name everywhere.

If it's got any sound that's not naturally made in some else's language you have next to no chance of some one who dosnt speak it getting your name right :/

[Temp name]

My dad had a similar loosing battle with his Welsh name everywhere.

If it's got any sound that's not naturally made in some else's language you have next to no chance of some one who dosnt speak it getting your name right :/

That's the problem I have as well.. People don't like new phonemes

[shadowmouse]

@Katie N Thanks. Yes, I would have mispronounced it, even among Vietnamese in the US I'm used to hearing the old war era NOO-yen. I looked it up and find:

https://inogolo.com/pronunciation/Nguyen

I'd probably still mangle it a bit, but could probably manage close to that.

[Monster Hunter]

That's the problem I have as well.. People don't like new phonemes

I don't think it's that they don't like it, more there toungs just don't know how to make that sound and sometimes they just don't even know what's silent and what isn't and how two letters change each other. Or how special chars sound.