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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: I am troubled naming babies/children/teens/adults in China is such a chore. why me?
why do they want/need an English name? ..My wife I suggested at least half a dozen to... settled on Michele ma belle... but I prefer and she prefers Yunhua... so why bother the exercise
daughter wanted English name... so i gave her one..... she does use it sometimes, but what the hell for ..Jamie or Jiaxin.
And now I am a "namer", friends and family come from miles around to get their English name. For me it is a pretty special thing, what I name my son/daughter............ nobody can just change it.
think I will ask my son, back home if he would be happy if I called him "wuqi" or "zujin"from now on.... seems how I am in China.
You can set yourself up as some sort of mystical foreign guru charging 5000 RMB a pop for the baby/child/teen/ adult to go through a ritual (a different one for each age group) where they come out with an english name.
All you need is 2 sets of random names taken out of a book: male and female
make a big thing of selecting one (at random) and they leave with a name card with the new English name.
I suggest at Kindergartens I'm working, all kids have English names. I ask TA to name all chairs and beds in Kindy with name stickers, so each kid has her/his chair and bed. I also have my chair and spare (kiddy) bed named. Kids can learn my name through the tag on my chair, and I know who's who through their chair tags.
I always call them by English names at our class, because when kid hears her/his English name, they must change language, and speak English.
The other thing is, I don't speak Chinese much, and it's very difficult to memorize Chinese names, but I don't tell them that! I just memorised present and past CCP premier's names, as Xi and Huu (me with deep voice and green eyes).
http://www.20000-names.com/female_english_names.htm
Don't forget to get a little silk bag and put some shiny stones and chicken bones in it.
You can throw the stones and bones on the floor as you hum incantations.
That should be a service worth a bottle of beer or two. You could have real fun with that .
icnif77:
'Meiyou beer!' What's wrong with you? ''French wine bottled in Shandong port 'winery''…..
icnif77:
Yust get your ice ready! F. red in China is best with ice. I can't type animore
BHGAL:
few hours later guys.. tuned in now... and really giggling at what you wrote......thanks, I needed a giggle.... doubt there is much of a business in "naming babies".. but a few extra bucks..what the hey.
ScotsAlan:
You just need vodoo BH.
Tell them you are 600 years old and their great great great granny said their name should be Fred.