☆ENGLISH ONLY☆コミュのCan you remember people's names?

Hello all.

I'm terrible with names, especially in conversation.
It's ok to remember names in kanji (Chinese characters), not with sounds.

How do you remember people's name?
Convert name to kanji in your head or say again and again it in your mind?

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[1] mixiユーザー 07月04日 10:44

Well, I also have a hard time remembering peoples names...but I am very good with faces. Sometimes depending how many people you know, it's easier just to remember faces...

[2] mixiユーザー 07月04日 11:55

I'm also bad with names. I make efforts by writing names on a
notebook. Still it's hard to remember huge numbers of names.

When I meet someone, I tell the person that I'm bad with names.
in advance. Fortunately I haven't cause a big mistakes about n
ames yet.

I'm not a business person, so I'm okay about it.

[3] mixiユーザー 07月04日 12:01

Hi. I sometimes don't remember names, just remamber fases. And I investigate in our talking.If I do that I can be getting remembering.

[4] mixiユーザー 07月04日 12:14

I'm bad with names, so when someone introduces themselves and I need to remember the name, I repeat it. And I try to repeat it again as we talk. That helps.

[5] mixiユーザー 07月05日 01:59

Thanks for comments.

Telling the person my bad memory in advance is a good idea! So, it's gonna be easier to ask the name again.

I often talk to my classmates at a English school, however, I don't know the names of some of them. And I can't ask their names any more.
I'll catch their names in conversations somehow. And, to remember, I'll repeat them at every turn from this out.

[6] mixiユーザー 07月05日 02:11

I usually get their info from them, like put it on my phone. And with their info I take a picture. So I can go back and refer names to pictures :)

[7] mixiユーザー 07月07日 19:23

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haha yea that is a good idea, if you can't remember their name!!
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I must be one of the lucky people that find it easy to remember names and faces, and i find Japanese names pretty easy to remember ^_^.

[8] mixiユーザー 07月07日 19:38

I usually can't...
I think it is because I rarely say people's names when I speak to them in English. I usually just say "you". But in Japanese you often start the sentence with the person's name.
such as:
"do you?"
"ひとみちゃんは?"

Also, I don't really care about learning most people's names, so... that doesn't help.

Greg
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[9] mixiユーザー 07月07日 20:19

just take his/her mobile phone number and i bet you can remember his/her name easily

[10] mixiユーザー 07月07日 23:55

Exchanging phone numbers is a good idea, too!
It's a best chance to find the person's name in kanji, isn't it?

[12] mixiユーザー 07月08日 00:16

I'm bad with names too. So i repeat their names and write it down in a note.
If I can't write Kanji, i want them to write it down in my note.

Recently I exchange phone number by wireless. I can get their name exactly and easily.

[13] mixiユーザー 07月08日 00:28

I often forget names of people who I met, especially at bar.
And tend to come up with my own combination of name, and people will get laugh out of it.

[14] mixiユーザー 07月08日 00:30

i usually cant remember the names,so til i remember names, i dont call their names.just say,hey! or something.
and i get their names in someone's conversation.

[16] mixiユーザー 07月10日 21:53

Imagine strange connections between them and their name.

For example, If you meet a girl named Amber, imagine she is stuck inside a big lump of amber.

If you meet a guy named Hiro, imagine he is wearing a cape and flying.

The stranger the image, the better.

It sounds stupid, but it works.

[17] mixiユーザー 07月10日 23:42

Oh, many peoples are usually not good with names.
It `s me too.

Most important thing in order to retain person`s name
is that we try to call their name and talk to them with eye contact
when we meet them for the first time, especially.
Then, we should`t hesitate to do it.
Japanese peoples tend to hesitate
to call their name for the first contact to someone,
I feel it these days. (It`s me too..)

In private time, especially, I feel sometime that
what is this man`s name for the second contact..

Then, 「Sorry, what `s your name?」
Oh, we must not say it to him.

[18] mixiユーザー 07月10日 23:44

This post makes me feel so good...
Japanese people tend to address each other by name instead of saying "you", so its kinda bad not to remember names.
I have severe ADHD... I can rarely remember anyone's name... and when I was running a shop (let alone teaching) anyone I met expected me to remember their name...
It was very stressful. :-(

[19] mixiユーザー 07月11日 00:38

I'm good with faces, not names. So, I often have to "tie" their name to their face in my mind.

> #16
> It sounds stupid, but it works

Doesn't sound stupid at all, it's one of the well-known methods. Our memory depends on two things: ability to concentrate, and the amount of attention we give to an object or event. As unusual things will get more attention, people will remember them better. (｡￫‿ฺ￩｡)

[20] mixiユーザー 07月11日 00:46

I'm not sure about the nature of our memory of person's names, but it is probable that the semantic content of the parts of the chinese letter may help us remind his/her names. The chinese characters have other traits as well: they convey a restricted set of pronunciation. Thus, crucially the chinese characters convery two properties for communicating things about person's names and who he/she is. The pronunciation or the sounds of the chinese characters have a kind of onomatopeic effect as well. For example, the names of men often includes voiced obstruents, while those of women does not. The types of the vowel set also are related with this traits, as far as I can observe.

[21] mixiユーザー 07月11日 01:47

names... uaah

for me names are difficuld.

i have the half family in russia i need to remember russian names.
I am from germany so I got used to german names.
I live in japan, but those names are totaly new for me.

In conclusion, I need to know many names from different cultural areas.
I try to make a memory with pictures or something.
Like: Today I met a girl her name is Hato .. I just thought of a Heart.