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Thread: Why do you, a chinese, have a english name?
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[quote=JABAROOTOO ,11254]So Benner, What nationality are You??? It's not a Chinese name either.Ever had to teach more than 1000 Chinese students in a week. I defy anyone to learn all their names when you only see them once a week. No Chinese national teacher (or any other country's for that matter) is expected to undertake such a monumental task.I personally ask all my students if they would firstly like an English name for my class and if they would like some help choosing it. Some of them choose some ridiculous names and not just from the English language either.When students choose to use their Chinese name in class I have them write it in Pin Yin so I can at least attempt to address them, but few of them include the tones so I am still left botching thier names in an effort to be polite. Who know's what I am really addressing them as. Names of two syllables like Da Shan, Wu Yi, Xiong Rui, Li Long I can master after some time but it is not until you have learned the Chinese Phonetics that it becomes easier. But three syllable names are a real problem and I even have trouble learning the names of close Chines friends. Try Chen Hai Xiao, Li Hai Shu, Wang Jie Ping by the thousands.As most of us come here at the invitation of the Chinese government to teach English we are often also learning the language amongst other things as we go (not an easy thing)and one of the little concessions to help us manage in this strange but facinating land is for the English learning population to embrace thier learning by ADOPTING an appropriate name if they so choose.[/quote]
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