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Spoken family names (audio)? - stupiddog - 2010-02-27

I love the WWWJDIC addition where you can listen to MP3s of the words you look up there. I use them to make my personal Anki deck more "vivid", and I think I learn faster if I hear the words as I drill them.

However, WWWJDIC has no audios for Japanese names (ENAMDICT). Are there any sites which offer spoken audios (MP3s?) of these?

Greetings,
Andreas

Spoken family names (audio)? - nest0r - 2010-02-27

Personally I just study names as I come across them in media, so usually there's a video somewhere online, i.e. character names or celebrities, etc. Otherwise, you could probably use Misaki (NeoSpeech TTS)... Also, it's in ローマ字, but: http://www.hearnames.com/?option=com_mtree&task=listcats&cat_id=62&Itemid=4

There's also the fact that if it's pronunciation you're worried about, generally if you just learn vocabulary/readings you won't have much trouble with names, it won't be the audio so much as idiosyncrasies in readings that throws you off, I imagine.

Edit: That hearnames link does have surname audio, I was thinking it was just given names, for some reason. Thus:

Surnames: http://www.hearnames.com/name-categories/japanese-names/japanese-surnames.html

Notable names: http://www.hearnames.com/name-categories/japanese-names/notable-japanese.html

Spoken family names (audio)? - Smackle - 2010-02-27

You could record names as you hear them in shows. They're said more than you think.

Spoken family names (audio)? - ruiner - 2010-03-11

I've been using the above-linked Hear Names site more and more lately. It doesn't have everything, nor kanji/kana, but nonetheless it's been, shall we say, nifty?

Spoken family names (audio)? - Katsuo - 2010-03-11

Coscom has a shorter list, but it does include Japanese text.

Spoken family names (audio)? - ruiner - 2010-03-11

Katsuo Wrote:Coscom has a shorter list, but it does include Japanese text.
Well, it's a start. ;p Thanks!