Re: How do Japanese learn names ?

Sharptongue wrote:
My first approach, if they're some kind of "celebrity", is to Google it.
I usually find pages with the name reading pretty easily that way.
Lately, I've been using Wikipedia Japanese which almost always has the
reading for the person's name.

Do you mean Google it after composing/entering the kanji ?
Ouch. That's a very labour-intensive process. I can read kanji names at
moderate speed, apart from difficult ones, but composing/typing them is
way too time-consuming.

I use JWPce which has several kanji lookup methods so I can compose the name pretty quickly. Then I cut & paste it into Google.
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