I would love to know how to write my name too. It's Sophie, but in my country it's pronounced right out. The "o" pronounced like ㅗ and the "e" pronounced like ㅐ. So it's like Sㅗphiㅐ .. If anyone understood that. x'3
Therefore:?
'So" like 'so and so,' also 'sow' and 'sew'
"phi" like 'fee,' also like 'feet' without the 't'
"e" like 'aye' also 'acorn' without the 'corn'
Hi 소피애, nice to met you;
Sounds like you know how to write it already. The only trouble I see is if 'ph' is pronounced like 'f,' because, as I'm sure you know, there is no 'F' sound in the Korean language.
Ready for the shocker?
The following sounds do not exist in Korean and can only be closely approximated in Hangul by substitutions of similar sounds:
F, V, Z, TH, ER, and the sound of 'a' as it is pronounced in words like 'at' 'cat' 'hat' 'rat'
typical substitutions:
F - ㅍ strong P sound
V - ㅂ b sound
Z - ㅈ j sound
TH - ㄷ d sound
ER - 어 eo sound (the 'uh' sound in 'duh')
the 'a' sound in cat and hat is replaced commonly with 에 (sounds like 'eigh' as in weigh ) and sometimes 아 (ah)
so in a word like 'father' (containing THREE missing sounds) we would typically see 파더 (Paduh), which would be almost unintelligible to a native speaker of English