Sooooo what’s the best way for actually reading people’s names? Or is it just best learning the names like pieces of vocab rather than learning all the 人名用？
The best way is ask people how to read their names ngl
Source: I am a teacher and we have katakana seating charts for a reason haha
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If you want to get ahead in being able to read names, you could always try out the Japanese name anki deck.
I’ve been slowly going through it myself, and it gets to a point where you start to recognise the reading for names, like how you recognise the reading for in words.
Otherwise it’s not something you really need to worry about.
Like cafelatte said, you can always just ask people you meet, work with or study with how to read their names.
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