Gian Luca

[kan3malato]

HI!!
How do you write my name" Gian Luca" in Japanese?
I know, I should give you my attempt, but really I would not know where to start
Thanks in advance

 

[jorge_val_ribera]

I would go with ジアン　ルカ (jian ruka). I guess that's how it's pronounced.

 

[kan3malato]

I would go with ジアン　ルカ (jian ruka). I guess that's how it's pronounced.

Thanks

 

[地獄の森_jigoku_no_mori]

Actually you would probably want to hold the Ji sound for an extra syllable
making it: ジーアン・ルカ

 

[Whodunit]

According to Wikipedia it should be ジャ... Unfortunately, I don't know much about the Italian pronunciation of "Gian." Question for kan3malato: Is the "gi" and own syllable or pronounced like the "g" as in "garage".

 

[地獄の森_jigoku_no_mori]

The way I put it is adequate. G before a, o, and u and before consonants has a sound like the g in good; before e and i like the g in general. Example; the name "Giovanni" would be "ジーオヴァンニ"(ji-ovanni) because the closest sound to "GI" in Japanese is pronounced "JI".

 

[Aoyama]

I would go with Jorge. Lengthening of JI (ji-an) is unusual .

 

[地獄の森_jigoku_no_mori]

well, I lengthened it because it's not as quick as jian it's kinda in the middle.

 

[Flaminius]

According to a Japanese Wiki article, Italian <gia> and <gio> correspond to Japanese <ジャ> and <ジョ>. Thus proper transcriptions for the names given so far in this thread would be;
ジャン・ルカ (Gian Luca)
ジョヴァンニ (Giovanni).

If, however, the first syllable of <Gian> has an accent, it can sound, or actually be pronounced, a bit longer than a standard syllable (as per Hell Forest). Thus, a more phonetically accurate transcription would be, ジアン・ルーカ.

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