Quote Originally Posted by TATY
Quote Originally Posted by waxwing
Quote Originally Posted by TATY
Can you say Как ты?
Most assuredly you can.

Jared would be spelt Джэрад.
You may say why use Э instead of A? It's because the Э is actually closer to the American English sound man, pan. Russian A is too open for these sounds. E.g. Джарад would aound like Jar-rаd.
I don't agree at all about that. э is a much better transcription of e as in "bed" or "Jared" than the Russian "а", therefore I prefer Джарэд to Джэрад. They will both be wrong, because as you mentioned, the first vowel phoneme will not be rendered correctly, but the former option will be much better.
The Russians have no easy way of producing our "a" in pan and man, but э certainly isn't the solution to that problem. джеред is another option - perhaps you meant that. But no easy answer.
I say Jared (Ja-rudd) The u = the u in put, foot. Thus i use Russian a. Pizza Hut is transliterated as Хат.
I am British, this is how we say it. The e in Jared isn't pronounced the same as that in bed and red, not even by Americans.
Джерад sounds the same as Джэрад anyway, because Ж is hard. So i conclude that my transliteration is Джерад. Or if you want to transliterate for the Irish pronounciation: Джаард

Э is the standard way of transliterating the vowel in pan and man.
E.g. the Russian word Бизнесмэн = Buissnessman. Batman is Бэтмэн or something.
The name Andrew is often written. Эндру
If you want to put on a Russian accent when speaking English. for Pan, and Man, say пэн мэн
OK first about the 'u' part.
What you say is very confused. Firstly, I am almost sure that when you say you use the 'u' in 'put' in Jared, it's not the case. You almost certainly use a 'schwa', which is subtly different (but close in some accents). The schwa is the classic reduced vowel sound in English, for example if you say "Can I ..." with can spoken quickly, it's not an 'a' sound at all, but a schwa.
Secondly, the 'u' in Hut is an entirely different phoneme (sound) to the 'u' in put. Note I'm particularly talking about British English here. The 'u' in Hut is also extremely problematic for Russians, and I accept that the Russian 'a' is as good a solution to that problem as anything else.
I am also British, and I think I could easily pronounce the 'e' in Jared like 'bed'. Of course, it's not an English name, and that's an important point. But nevertheless the rest of what you say has a lot of validity. Because the name is stressed on the first syllable (right?), the second syllable is likely to be reduced. This could either result in a schwa or a short 'i' sound depending on your preference.
Now about the last point - you're right, I was wrong, in as much as Russians do use э for 'a' as in 'pan' and 'man'. I had just forgotten that they often prefer this, although both options of course are inadequate.

Believe me, you don't need to tell me what Russian accented English sounds like, I heard nothing else all last year