Re: How do Japanese learn names ?
- From: declan_murphy@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 7 Mar 2006 04:09:15 -0800
Sharptongue wrote:
<snip>the only way to be sure of the correct
pronounciation is to ask the person concerned
Yes. Its a pretty good conversation starter actually.
The point I am making here is that even a highly educated Japanese can
struggle with reading kanji names. So how do ordinary Japanese cope
with this, or is it not seen as much of an issue ?
It isn't really an issue. If you hear a name, you start wondering how
they write it, and ask. If you read a name, you start wondering how
they read it, and ask. Its kinda fun, and the Japanese around me seem
to enjoy it more. Hardly anyone in Sydney pronounces my simple 2
syllable name correctly on first attempt, and other than the Irish
mafia nobody manages it in Japan period.
Which leads to a further question. Quite a lot of gaijin manage to
reach fluency in Japanese, both living inside and outside Japan. At
some stage, these people must encounter and master the reading of kanji
names. How do they do it ? Are there particular schools of thought
which have systematic approaches ? Or is it just straight familiarity
and memorization ?
Familiarity and memorization gets you so far, so you learn most of the
surnames easily, and then some of the more common given names, and then
there is guesswork, but mostly it comes down to asking (or in my case
reading the furigana they write on the resumes they send me or any
romaji in the email address. I can do without the photo, but have to
have the furigana for the given name).
.
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