Tuesday, May 19, 2009

What I learned today

I had my first round of translation done today. This says Clarissa in Korean:

There's nothing particularly exciting about that, it just makes me smile to look at it. :)

4 comments:

Tracie said...

So how does that work? They can translate any name into Korean Hangul? I wouldn't have thought so! That's very cool.

My son lived in Sri Lanka... their language (Sinhala) has pretty amazing characters. He said his name couldn't translate at all, so I just assumed Hangul would be like that, too.

Love it! Are you going to hang that in her room?

Misty said...

Nice! :) Do you have it memorized yet so you can write it, too?

My5Blessings said...

Wow, the Korean letters are very beautiful! I agree you should have a sign made for her room, great idea!

Wendy said...

Hangul is actually pretty simple to learn. There are only 24 Hangul characters in their alphabet. Each character makes a sound, so to translate an American name into Korean they basically just sound it out and use the hangul characters that correspond with each sound. There are a few sounds that don't translate well, so they just try to get as close as possible. If a Korean person read it, it wouldn't sound exactly like Clarissa, said with an American accent, but it would be close enough.

I think I will make some kind of artwork for her room that has her name in Korean. I just haven't decided what yet! :)