I Need a English Name
my english name is tutu ,but many of my international friends think it sounds a little funny .maybe it is not like an english name .so i want to change it. for myself tutu is a fantastic name because my chinese family name is tu and then i use double tu for my english name. now i will take it as my english family name .i feel a good name sometimes will bring a good luck to our life .i hope friends here would like to give me some advice .come on thnik a given neme for me.i will appriciate fot that .
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My English name is tutu but many of my international friends think it sounds a little strange/odd/funny.
Maybe it does not sound like an English name so I want to change it. Personally, I find/consider ‘tutu’ a fantastic name because my Chinese surname is Tu - I simply double the sound ‘tu’ to form my English name.
Now I will use 'tu' as my English surname – I feel that a good name may sometime bring good luck (to our lives).
I hope that some of my friends here will advise me on a suitable first name for me – any suggestions/ideas would be much appreciated.
Please pay more attention to your punctuation! It seems that you are not entirely sure when to use capital letters, commas, full stops etc.
My suggestion:
Why not go for a name which contains the ‘tu’ sound like Tsula (meaning ‘fox’ in Cherokee) or Tula (‘peace’ in Hindi), the English Tulip (a flower), Irish Tullia/Tully (peaceful) for instance.
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Tutu!!!!! That's perfect
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I think you should just use your Chinese name in pinyin. It's what all the cool kids are doing. It shows that you are not ashamed of your native culture.
If not, maybe you could choose the name Lesley. Haha.
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Learning a foreign language means getting to know another culture. And names are an intricate part of culture. You say you want a good name because it can bring good luck to your life. However, in English speaking countries -- and in other Western countries for that matter -- names are not chosen for what they mean. Their "meaning", when they do have one, is not the most important deciding factor. Each Western language has a set of pre-existing names for male and female. Parents choose a name from that set based on their own preferences, on some (positive) relationship the name may have with their own lives, or on any other criteria they feel appropriate. On the other hand, as you well know, Chinese parents will "coin" a name for their child, and that name is meant to bring good luck to the new born baby.
Based on that very important cultural difference, I would advise you either keep your Chinese name, or choose a name you personally like. Assuming you keep "TU" as your family name, try and choose a first name that will not clash with your family name. This may be a challenge as "TU" does sound like other very common English words like "to", "two", "too", and may create unpleasant combinations with your chosen name.
Good luck!
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My name is a kind of Chinese version of my Swedish one.
Maybe you can try to do that the other way around.
For example I have a friend, her name is Lü Yan, I gave her a couple of suggestions of English names that are similar to that, and she decided shortly after to call herself "Elaine".
Good luck.
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