Back

Spoken family names (audio)?

#1
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
Reply
#2
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_mtr...2&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...names.html

Notable names: http://www.hearnames.com/name-categories...anese.html
Edited: 2010-02-27, 9:25 pm
Reply
#3
You could record names as you hear them in shows. They're said more than you think.
Reply
May 16 - 30 : Pretty Big Deal: Save 31% on all Premium Subscriptions! - Sign up here
JapanesePod101
#4
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?
Reply
#5
Coscom has a shorter list, but it does include Japanese text.
Reply
#6
Katsuo Wrote:Coscom has a shorter list, but it does include Japanese text.
Well, it's a start. ;p Thanks!
Reply