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While reading online, I found numerous websites that had "Romaji translations"
of names that use the Roman alphabet. For example, the Japanese version of
Jordan is said to be either Jo-dan or Yorudan. So how do introduce myself?
"Watashi no namae wa Jordan desu" or "watashi no namae wa Jo-dan/Yorudan
desu?"
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names rōmaji transcription
Introducing yourself in Japanese when you have a Roman name?
If you're going to use Roman alphabet, you can either leave it as original
spelling, or convert it to rōmaji (= in Japanese pronunciation).

If you go with original spelling, you'll be fine at that point, but may face a
"So, how do you pronounce it after all?" afterwards.

If you choose rōmaji, you should transcribe it according to **the sound in
your language, instead of spelling**. Fortunately, [transcription from
English](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_into_Japanese) has been
very predictable: _Jordan_ always becomes _jōdan_ (ジョーダン). What you found
_yorudan_ (ヨルダン) is for the name of [Kingdom of
Jordan](https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3),
or of those from Germany and other Central European countries, where they
pronounce the letters that way.
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