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Karl

A few weeks back I was registering myself at Kasamatsu city hall.

And since my name is not written in Katakana, Hiragana or Kanji, I had to write my name in Romaji letters of course.

But when it comes to pronouncing my first and last name in Japanese, Ka Ru Cho Pu are the consonants known in spoken Japanese.

Karl Tschopp is simply impossible to say for a Japanese.

It’s weird and amusing at the same time for me.

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