Need more content translated? Check out our professional Spanish translation services Chinese:Ī Chinese name starts with the family name followed by the first name. So, if you have any messages intended for your visitors on your Spanish website, you should leave more space for the family name and also address your visitors using their surnames, not their first names.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez would be addressed as Señor Marquez (though, I‘ve read that friends call him Gabo…)įirst names are appropriate among friends and young people. One surname will be used when speaking with a person and both surnames will be used when writing to a person. The first surname – father’s surname – is commonly used when addressing somebody. His parents wereGabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán, so his two surnames are Garcia and Marquez. One of my favorite writers is Gabriel García Márquez (full name: Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez). Most Spanish people (other than Argentines) have two surnames the first inherited from the father and the second from the mother. Websites dedicated to young people will welcome visitors using their first name, but official websites or those dedicated to all ages will use first and last name together, or formal titles followed by family name. Things are changing and addressing someone only by their first name is very common. However, I’ve seen that this is no longer common. Even now, when visiting my family in Romania, I still call those older than me as Mister or Madame, followed by their first name if I know them very well, or family name. This has now changed in Romania and everyone signs their name using first name followed by last name.īack in my native country, I never called a person older than me only by his/her first name as this would have been rude. I believe this was mostly one of the communist rules to diminish individual importance. It wasn’t very common at that time to have your name listed in this order and it didn’t matter if you were 10 or 50 years old. I remember once in high school my teacher got mad at me because I signed one of my papers using my first name followed by my last name. This also applies to online communication, even if it’s becoming more common in many languages to use the first name when addressing someone new. In some cultures it’s inappropriate to address someone using his/her first name, unless you are invited to do so. When creating an online form for people from other countries to fill out, it’s important to remember that some names might need more space than standard English names: Spanish people usually have two surnames Chinese names are listed in a different order the forms should be set up to allow Unicode characters as some languages have accents, some use non-roman scripts, etc.
It’s very common to complete an application or form online, to subscribe to some services, newsletters, etc. Interactivity with site visitors is an important feature most websites now have. This is also an issue when dealing with foreign people online.
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Not knowing how to address someone properly can create a very embarrassing situation for both parties. People from different countries and cultures have specific ways of addressing and greeting others when making new acquaintances.
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