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No its the fact that no one has any interest in learning how to pronounce it correctly. It's not like I'm out there making a fool of myself by pronouncing it correctly, because everyone expects you...

That might be a good grammatical translation or whatever but they are not pronounced the same unless I'm missing something. (Ivan and Иван)

I've seen like 4 different spellings for "James" in...

Okay but I mean immigrating, in which case I figured you would have stated that (most people don't change their name when they go on vacation :wink:). What I mean about everything going into English...

But he's not going to Russia, thats one thing- though I would still tell them my name is James. I think its unfortunate we put almost everything into English these days but I wouldn't expect ethnic...

Personally I wouldn't change your last name. For just realistic reasons, you ever apply for another job you gotta specify that you changed your name, they are going to ask why, and "personal...

It's not a requirement, but has many reasons- the strongest (IMO) of which being based in Christ's renaming of his disciples. For me the name change would serve as a constant reminder of Who I owe...