I just started sentence mining with Migaku and have stumbled across a bunch of characters name and I don’t really know what to do about them, for example, there is a girl named ユカリ, however ゆかり can also mean relation/connection/etc… So should I just put it as known and next time I encounter ゆかり as 縁, I just mine it this time? Or do I just not care and leave it as unknown? I also thought about creating a second deck with only names where I could just put a high starting ease to get myself a little more familiar with Japanese names, as any of you ever done that? I know it’s not a very big issue but I’d still like to have people’s opinions on it to see how people deal with those things
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IMO don’t use SRS on all the random names and their millions and billions of alternate spellings (you can spell a name basically any way you want, as long as it’s a name kanji)
There are exceptions to every rule. But generally….
For me it’s just names, I read them once, yellow them, leave them alone, for the moment I have my plate full with unknown words, when I get to the 20k words maybe I will start learning them if they did not stick after all that time, long journey for me ahead. I will make some exceptions with mains like 悟 “Satoru” from erased, because I’m learning that kanji with the nihongoshark deck.
Usually ignore them unless its specific Kanji. For SRS you are looking for words that are going to be useful or difficult to remember and names generally aren’t either but it depends, i never did RRTK for instance so something like 泉/Izumi would be at some point.
I ignore them but that’s up to you. I personally just know it’s a losing battle in my own mind.
Ever since Migaku added the “Ignore” status (4 key) I use that for most names and anything that’s a long vocalization/onomatopoeia like ヘヘヘヘ
I’ve never heard of memorizing names as vocabulary, is it necessary? I do it with people I might meet again, but that’s so I remember THEIR name, not the name itself.