Sunday, May 9, 2010


Three of the little student's I taught in Taiwan: Pearlie, Wish and Kin. Taiwanese children will often times adopt an English name that their friends and teachers call them at the English schools. Most of the students I taught did not even know the Chinese names of their friends.

Some English names my 4 and 5 year olds had:

Evonne
Angudy (You may be wondering why this is an English name - I am also wondering this.)
Agnes
Doris
Grace
Pearlie
Scott
Tiger
Della
Leo
Wish
Ben
Chelsea
Jenny
Austin
Kin
Danny
Alex
Wilson

As you can see, there is a mix of normal English names and old time names (with a few totally weird ones or misspelled ones, too).

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