Re: English Names Chosen by Chinese Students
in reply to a message by Juliet
I once taught two Chinese brothers called Fen and Joe. Joe's Chinese name was Chou, so he picked something that sounded much the same. I thought Fen was using his Chinese name, but he said he just paged through the dictionary until he found a "name" he liked. I'm glad he didn't go a bit further into the single-syllable F words ... but I didn't tell him that!