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| cod2 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4554 days ago 48 posts - 69 votes  | Message 1 of 3 09 July 2015 at 2:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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To all sentence miners:
How do you learn the reading of Japanese person names and place names? As they have no relation to the meanings of the kanjis involved, I am finding them pretty much impossible to remember - apart from the really basic ones like Tanaka, Kagawa and Tadashii. I did a forum search but nothing useful came up. Thanks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5960 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 2 of 3 09 July 2015 at 5:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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By looking them up, one by one, over many years. After enough time, that will allow you
to make educated guesses for most names. Also, it helps if you have a face to go with the name. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4665 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 3 of 3 14 July 2015 at 1:39am | IP Logged | ||
I don't think I've specifically learned any at all: I've certainly not made an effort to do so. In my Anki sentence deck, I highlight names (people and places) in blue so that I know that it's a name when I'm trying to understand the sentence (that way I don't spend too long wondering why I don't remember that particular "word"!) Some names come up so often that they are hard not to learn: 田中 (Tanaka) and 鈴木 (Suzuki). Various place names also crop up very often: 東京, 大阪, and 京都. Some others I can recognise because they crop up reasonably often. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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