weekend and feeling ready to be on the mic so all  good same here same here Lindsay do you ever have  

people ask you like clarify your name or they're  not sure what your name is or yeah yeah for  

sure sometimes people will say oh is it Lizzy and  like oh it's not really it's not I don't and I'll  

correct them you know it's important to correct  people when they get the name wrong but yeah so  

there are sometimes there's issues with names what  about you Michelle have you had that happen to you  

I remember that in Middle School uh there was a  substitute teacher who kept on calling me Michael  

Michael yeah because interesting yeah I I don't  I don't know I guess she didn't uh I I don't know  

but she she was mispronouncing my name and you  know she was a you know like I should have said  

no it's Michelle that's the thing is I think  sometimes when people mispronounce someone's  

name the other person is just kind of like  whatever especially if it's not gonna be like  

a long-term deep relationship so but yeah what  do you think about that what have you ever heard  

of people kind of just saying whatever whatever  yeah you say my name is yeah I don't like that  

that kind of bothers me too Michelle because it  is a sign of confidence when you correct someone  

and you say no it's you know it's Lindsay it's  not Lizzy I'm not a huge fan of the name Lizzy  

right like right just my personal opinion names  are very opinion based right uh and so I don't  

want people calling me Lizzy it's Lindsay uh  and so I think it does show real confidence  

and assertiveness uh when you do take the time  to correct someone for sure yeah absolutely  

um so and we're going to talk about this  a lot today today guys this episode is all  

about names yes but we have something  important to do first Michelle we have  

something really exciting to share with  you guys um we have a a trophy because

um amazing I have passed 100 000 subscribers  on the all ears English YouTube channel and  

we received this wonderful Trophy and we just  wanted to share this with you guys because you  

guys are the reason this happened I know we want  to say thank you for to you guys for believing  

in connection not Perfection for being right  here with us now YouTube is a really great way  

to consume this podcast because you get to see us  on videos you know our Smiles our expressions of  

course if you love just listening on the podcast  which personally Michelle I'm more of a podcast  

listener than a video Watcher myself so nothing  is ever going to change over there guys you can  

always listen on Spotify Apple podcast Google  podcast but YouTube is a really good option right  

Michelle and you'll have more than a hundred  thousand other fans of all ears English over  

there listening I love it yeah guys really thank  you so much when Lindsay told me that we hit 100  

000 subscribers I was like wow I felt really proud  I felt really good about all yours English about  

our team and the hard work that we put in but  we put in this hard work because we love doing  

it we love doing it for you guys and just thank  you for sticking with us all these some of you  

have you been listening almost 10 years so true  it's amazing our long time listeners we love you  

guys and we're gonna keep going for as long as  we possibly can here at Euler's English so hit  

follow whether it's on YouTube or on Apple  podcast or Spotify and keep listening to all  

ears English good stuff excellent thanks guys  all right Michelle so I loved when I got this  

question from our listener because I thought it  was a unique question it was different it was fun  

you know it's something special so should I go  ahead and read the question from our listeners  

yes okay all right here we go so you know this is  a shout out to our listener I don't have okay this  

is May from China all right this is the first time  I've ever reviewed a podcast normally I'm just a  

quiet listener but I really want to say thank you  to your team I've been following it uh For Five  

Years Learning many useful English Expressions  that I have no chance to get from the textbook  

so it's such a fruitful experience of five stars  love the word fruitful Michelle fantastic this is  

great oh actually this is not a student who asked  the question is it it's a different student yeah

um because we don't have the question here  oh that's weird no the question is below the  

question is below here we go I'm not sure if it  was the same student or if we're just calling out  

a reviewer but anyways okay here's the actual  question here we go Michelle so I'm working at  

a company in Korea and I'm 41 years old and I  have two children and I have a plan to work and  

live in the U.S in the near future with my husband  and my children currently I have no English name  

in my company and my counterpart has difficulty  pronouncing my first name but I'm not sure what  

English name is suitable for my age I would like  to have my own name but when I search the internet  

then only the common names are listing like  Olivia Mia Emma and and so on so could you please  

recommend some English name for me when you have  a chance because I have native friends so I can't  

imagine what kind of name will be suitable I'm a  career woman and I'm very passionate in any task  

I Undertake and very easy going and extroverted  if you suggest a female name for me then it will  

be very motivating to learn my English studying  because this time I'll be able to invest every  

day with others English it's one of my biggest  pleasures and you are my role models wow amazing  

I love that thank you thank you it's so good  and I actually think this is such an interesting  

question and it's true Michelle if you went ahead  and you know as a 41 year old this listener and I  

are the same age by the way and so I totally get  where she's coming from as a 41 year old if you  

go and Google common names you're going to get  names of kids now right right right right right  

right because you're looking at the popular names  from now so like she said exactly Olivia Mia Emma  

those are like alleles need a lot of like little  girls babies with those names yes exactly so we  

have a really good episode planned for today well  so I mean you before we jump into the you know  

our ideas the question is do people have to feel  like they have to change their name I mean I like  

part of it is is fun right so I mean I'm yeah this  isn't the same thing but I remember in high school  

in French class like they would have us choose  names wait did you take French or Spanish you  

said I took into French okay okay yeah what was  your name so my name was Michelle because you know  

but but then I remember the next year I was like I  don't want it to be Michelle I want to have like a  

different identity a different feeling class so  I was Brigitte oh interesting yeah then I loved  

the name Bridget and yeah so I was Bridget and um  what about you did you have like a name and well  

we didn't we didn't have choices we didn't get to  choose our name we were assigned I think my French  

teacher was pretty strict and I was assigned  you did French too yes I did friend we have so  

many parallels Michelle it's so funny this was  fourth grade fourth grade French and I think my  

name was friend friends Francesco or no that's an  Italian name isn't it friends Francois Francoise  

Francoise is what it was um I didn't love my name  but I couldn't I didn't have an option to change  

it it was just Francoise yeah so we got to we  got to choosing and that was always exciting  

um and so it you know in some ways it's fun  but I just wanna before we talk about tips  

for choosing the name um say that you don't  have to change your name if you don't yes  

I totally agree with you Michelle it's a really  good take and a good way to start because part  

of learning a new language is bringing our own  identity our sense of humor our personality into  

this new language and so we don't need to bend  ourselves and become a completely new person when  

we speak English so that's the that is an option  to you is just going with the name and coming up  

with tricks to help people learn to pronounce your  name right and and you know don't don't hold back  

like don't say oh this is my name but I know it's  hard to say so don't worry about it like make sure  

you know give people a chance to learn it um they  will right but yeah so so I just wanted to say  

that like your name is part of your identity yes  but yeah sorry go ahead I was gonna say and it  

shows confidence when you have your name maybe  it's hard to pronounce but it's okay because  

you're going to help people with it exactly and  then they'll get it and then when they get they  

get it they'll get it however our listener is  asking and and I'm sure a lot of people have  

thought about this like how to choose another name  maybe maybe it's exciting or fun for you to kind  

of change things up a little bit I know I mean  you know if I were moving to another place maybe  

maybe I would for you know to to just I would I  would change it if it was for you know fun like  

I felt like it was for a fun new identity but  I I wouldn't want to change it to you know feel  

like I was accommodating everybody else does that  make sense right I completely agree so in today's  

episode you know that's the first thing we want  you to think about for our listener here uh you  

have the option to not do this to opt out of it  right but we're going to give you a good framework  

of if you do decide you want to things that  you could think about in today's episode right  

Michelle absolutely we will give you some tips on  choosing your name so things that you can think  

about when deciding on this name so guys before we  uh do that we want to let you know about all yours  

English episode 14 1872 which is this episode is  calling your name personification in English so  

that's something fun to listen to very fun go into  I actually that was a really interesting episode  

we talked about how we can in English we could  talk about how our computer has an attitude or  

becomes a person in the language very different so  check that one out guys okay Michelle where should  

we start today for our listeners who do want to  change their name where can we start okay so I've  

we've come with about six things to consider um  and so we're gonna try and get through most of  

them if not all um and here we go so the first  one we will say is the year and I think Lindsay  

you really uh picked up on that with this this  question yeah you know the question The Listener  

mentioned names like Mia and Emma and you told me  that you actually emailed the listener back right  

Lindsay yeah I I loved this question so much  that I personally responded to this listener  

and sometimes I do that guys sometimes when you  do send in your question you'll get a personal  

response from me not every question but the  really good ones do get a personal response  

and so I did I immediately went to a website  and found you know baby names from 1981 because  

it's the same age as that I am and I was curious  too what are those names um so that would be the  

first thing and we will put a link uh in the blog  post this is a blog post to that but just go to  

Google right Michelle and just type in baby names  1981 USA right if you're going to be working in  

the U.S right so there are there are sites like  babycenter.com that's the one that you you that  

you had so take a look like for example on this  list tour Jessica right we know the name Jessica  

um Lisa Heather you know so so names like that  whereas if you're if you're 41 well I mean listen  

names can be popular at any age I mean I think  they can't I think I'm as pretty Emma is pretty  

classic I mean but uh sure it is one of my closest  friends in high school was named Emma and she was  

my age yeah right so there you go like you don't  but like but something to consider maybe maybe  

that is also on the 1981 list but you don't have  to if you feel like oh I want to kind of have a  

cool new trendy name but something to consider is  like when when were you born and what names were  

popular in this year yeah I've been I've become  kind of disappointed that I've found that a lot  

of Millennials have my name I'm kind of a Gen X  or cusp cusper right between Gen X and Millennial  

and so many Millennials have the name Lindsay but  not very many gen xers so my parents they thought  

they were you know on The Cutting Edge of a trend  but it turns out now all these people I know who  

are millennials have the name Lindsay so okay okay  I don't know yeah maybe it doesn't make sense to  

play the trends just go with something you know if  you're naming a baby for example that you that you  

like right but that's a different story different  question yeah right because some people might want  

their child to have like a trendier name um  something that a lot of people have and some  

like the more unique name so it's just personal  preference and that kind of leads us into the  

second one which is just how does it sound to you  do you like it right I mean that's I mean that is  

something to talk about do you like this name um  so yeah do you like the name you have to like it

yeah exactly I mean I think people have a names  are so opinion based and often it's based on  

someone else we knew at one point that we liked  or didn't like that had that name and that just  

colors the name for us in our minds right right  right right right right right that's true so if  

you like the name the the way it sounds or  maybe like there's a celebrity you like with  

that name maybe there's maybe there's um  a friend or a person that you've met who  

has a name that you like as well um so just  think do you like it I mean it's pretty simple  

yeah exactly exactly I would add one thing to  this before we go into the others is think about  

how your last name and the and the first name go  together if you're going to use them that way like  

I'm not sure if our listener would do that if  she would take her new adopted name and put her  

last name after that but if in general you would  want to think about that how does it sound as one  

full name right does it flow right does it have a  nice a nice flow together something to think about