Expat Videocast: What's in a name?

Rachel from Rio Gringa discusses what happens to your name when you move to a different country; in her case, her name in Brazil and Latin America

For more expat videocasts, see:
http://riogringa.typepad.com/my_weblog/expat-videocast-series.html

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• name
• expat
• Brazil
• US
• videocast

[roginooo]

I was searching for a video of the Rochom P'ngieng aka jungle girl and found your video .. I think is super cool what you doing and I have more time I'll look into your web.. I'm brazilian living in florida and my first name is Roger.I loved my name in school back in brazil I was the only one in the whole school, here people told me that my name sounds like an old man =P

[addisuntaylor]

haha. i went to brazil last summer to visit my brazilian bf. my name is "Addisun" which isn't even common in the U.S. but when i introduced myself in brazil they all thought my name was "Edison" Lol like "Thomas Edison" THEN they said that reminded them of "Thomas Jefferson" so my name becam JEFF Lol

[daniloprates]

Eu estou indo pra Londres em maio e não posso esperar pra ouvir os gringos tentando pronunciar meu nome, Danilo... "Hey, Déneilou", hahaha.