What's my name in Japanese? (make requests here!)

[dedde]

how would say my name or spell in hiragana?
my name is Belgenman Stovall.

[Alan]

Foreign names are written in katakana instead of hiragana. Some approximations have to be made for sounds that don't exist in Japanese. e.g. 'l' -> 'r'; 'v' -> 'b'. However there are some non-standard katakana extensions for non-japanese sounds like 'v'

Thus 'vu' can be written as ヴ and this can be extended to approximate other 'v' sounds such as 'va' which becomes ヴァ.

Furthermore, where several consonants are adjacent, it is not possible to express this exactly in japanese. You may need to add extra vowels (usually 'u') or otherwise approximate the sound.

So Belgenman Stovall => be ru ge ma n tso va ru => ベルゲマン　ツォヴァル

This does of course assume I've got the pronunciation of your name right in the first place. You may need to adjust the above if it doesn't sound right.

[pord]

Im quite interrested in how my name would come out

My name is: Gordon Parton

[Alan]

I'd suggest:　Gordon Parton => go- do n pa- to n => ゴードン　パートン
Again this is in katakana. The '-' symbol stretches the preceding vowel sound.

Alan
アラン

[dante117]

Hello guys! I'm new here and I don't know how to speak japanese. Just wanna ask you guys how to say my name in japanese.

My full name is Dan Florente San Pablo.

Thanks in advance!

[Bueller_007]

Hello guys! I'm new here and I don't know how to speak japanese. Just wanna ask you guys how to say my name in japanese.

My full name is Dan Florente San Pablo.

Thanks in advance!

You'd say it pretty much exactly the same.

Dan Furorente San Paburo.
ダン・フロレンテ・サン・パブロ

[dante117]

Woah Nice! Thanks a lot man!
Those japanese characters below my name, is that how I write my name in japanese?

[Jason]

Those japanese characters below my name, is that how I write my name in japanese?

Yes.

[landregistry]

Hi, could somebody please help me say my name in Japanese. It is Simon Heath. Thanks

[jkid]

My guess is you would write it this way...

サイモン・ヒッウ
sa i mon hi tsuu

Any corrections?

[landregistry]

Ha ha, it sounds like Simon hits you. Thanks very much!

[Alex Trigo]

My guess is you would write it this way...

サイモン・ヒッウ
sa i mon hi tsuu

Any corrections?

サイモン・ヒース is how you'd put it in Katakana.

[jkid]

Ah, a small mistake

[wmitchell]

Im just learning the basics my self

My name is Will Mitchell ??

[Bueller_007]

Im just learning the basics my self

My name is Will Mitchell ??

ウィル・ミッチェル (Uiru Miccheru)

Just so everyone knows, like 99% of common "English" foreign names and their katakana equivalents can be found in Jim Breen's enamdict.

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi- ... dic.cgi?1C

Go here, select "enamdict" as your dictionary, type your given or family name in the box. Done.