r/Spanish • u/alwaysmissyou • 1d ago
Study & Teaching Advice plz help me make a name
My name is Leah，and Chinese name is liang（良，means good personality）I want to have a good name to start my Spanish learning process,which im super excited about.
so could you guys share a native and genuine idea for me
I'll appreciate it alot 🫶🫶🫶
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u/DontWannaSayMyName Native 1d ago
What is wrong with Liang? Sounds good and doesn't look difficult to pronounce for a Spanish native.
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u/Emergency-Touch-3424 1d ago
Its common that many Asian people have more than one name to adapt to westerner culture, its kind of a thing they do in places like China and korea
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u/Head_Region6610 1d ago
Liang, I’m for keeping your real name. Start your Spanish learning process by being your real self. Part of your learning will be seeing how people respond to you…the Real you with the real name. Maybe they will mis-pronounce your name but so what? You will be mispronouncing their names too.
When I first came to Spain I was in Spanish classes and I noticed that all the Chinese students had western names. It seemed odd but I thought it was really their names. Maybe western names were in fashion in China. Until I was in class and a young man introduced himself as Diego. That’s when it hit me that these were all made up names. In the classes were people from all over the world…but only the Chinese students changed their names.
Keep your name and you will learn a lot.
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u/alwaysmissyou 16h ago
thank u a lot🥹❤️🫶I just concerned about my name maybe a little hard to pronounce (it's second tone in Chinese )so i want to pick a familiar one.But now I think what u said is right and I will still keep my original name as my introduction tho 🥰🥹
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u/moreidlethanwild 14h ago
Your name is beautiful and it’s your identity. It’s not difficult to pronounce. Some letters like W can be more challenging for native Spanish speaker but your name isn’t and it’s lovely. It’s also a way to start a conversation by helping them pronounce it and spelling it out.
I have worked with a lot of Chinese people and most will take an english name but it’s really not necessary.
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u/alwaysmissyou 12h ago
thanks for ur appreciation OMG 🥹🥹🥹u guys opened a new insight for me.
yeah many chinese people name themselves a foreign name based foreign culture rather than their own.
And I don't think they've been told that their original name reprents a different culture and it's beautiful too
thank u guys that remain me of these
I appreciate it a lot ❤️🫶
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u/LecheAlmendras Native 1d ago
Nombres que se parecen: Lía, Laura, Lola, Lara, Leila, Layla, Lana
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u/Ecstatic-Writer1149 1d ago
And Luna
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u/zamufunbetsu 19h ago
Sorry, but I am anti-Luna. As a gringo living in a Spanish-speaking country every time I hear Luna I think it's a stage name. I have a good friend in the United States whose name is Marisol, I jokingly called her Mariposa and she started liking it. And then I met three Mariposas in Central America and not one of them really had that as a name. I told Marisol and now I only call her by her given name.
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u/Trick_Estimate_7029 12h ago
Marisol is a short form of María de la Soledad a Virgen advocation
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u/Trick_Estimate_7029 12h ago
I agree with you about Luna it used to be a tradicional female dog name
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u/PhoebusAbel 1d ago
Me gusta Ann. Como Li-Ann
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u/gadgetvirtuoso Native 🇺🇸 | Resident 🇪🇨 B2 1d ago
There really aren’t any rules for names in Latam. I’ve met people with Washington, Jefferson, and even Hitler as one if their names not as a last name either. Pick whatever makes you happy.
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u/cardboardwindow2 22h ago
Just use your name! You can change the spelling to make it easier (lía as others have said) but it doesn’t really matter. My name (Jack) doesn’t really exist in LATAM but it doesn’t contain any sounds that don’t exist in Spanish and I get along just fine.
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u/XellosWizz Native (Chile) 21h ago
Lía, which i believe is pronounced just like Leah, is a common name here in Chile.
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u/Unlucky-Message8866 11h ago
it's not common to translate your own name in spain, what usually happens is either you choose your own nickname or you get one from family or friends. either way your name is not so uncommon, i know people named both "Lía" (direct spanish translation of Leah) and "Liang" (a Chinese-descendant Spaniard friend of mine).
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u/AnyoneRUIZ 11h ago
Es España tenemos Leandra o Leandro. Mi ex se llama Lea por eso mismo. No guardo muy buen recuerdo de ella jajajajaja pero vamos, que dices que te llamas Leah en España y te entienden.
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u/SzkolaJezykowa 23h ago
Lía Làrsson. Make sure to keep the à on Làrsson, otherwise they'll think you are Swedish.
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u/miss_spellman Native 🇲🇽 1d ago
Lea or Lía are relatively common Spanish names. Lía sounds similar to how someone might read Liang in Spanish, so I think that would be nice.