10 Japanese Brands You Pronounce Wrong! // How To Pronounce Japanese 

Lol, you think these are bad? How about how Japanese people butcher English words with katakana? 🤣 ウイルス??? Willis? Ohhhhhh, you mean 'virus'!!

I really enjoyed your new no BS format. Part of the reason westerners mispronounce these Japanese brands is because that is how Japanese companies market themselves overseas. Our domestic commercials for Japanese brands, made and paid for by Japanese companies, actually teach us to say them incorrectly!

It might interest you to know that many foreigners KNOW they're pronouncing it incorrectly, but they do it any ways because it sounds better. Like Nikon. We like it better the way we say it. 🤣

Asaginators, i love that !

I think it's me who must make confused face when a Japanese pronounce "Asics" as "ASHIKKUSU" cause doesn't matter how hard I try but I can't find there letters "H, S, K" the same for "UNIQLO" 😂😂😂

Haha except they (the Japanese) don’t really try to use マックドナルド (makkudonarudo) when they’re speaking in a non-Japanese speaking country. I get what you’re trying to say though.

It was meant just as a joke, please don't take offence for what i wrote. I know it's just the way the Japanese language works, and when you speak other languages, you use the pronunciation from the respective language.

@@maybe867Yeah I know what you meant.

"Kito kato" too for kit kat... theres actually a song about their pronunciations cant remember the title

@@Burneth_ Tokyo Bon by Namewee for the Olympics?

Thanks for saying that!!

Because, the Japanese don't make the slightest attempt to change how they pronounce our words! They katakanize every - damn - word! The Japanize it and won't even try to say our words properly!

Because once they decided this is how their country and language pronounce it, there is no way they want to be told how it originally should sound like? I personally like to pronounce words in their original pronunciation (words like croissant, Tour de France etc) and show respect for the language, regardless of how people look at me or think of me. I cringed when I hear people say "kao" as cow (even if they are employees of the company that is based in another country). I don't feel the need to point them out though, since I'm not Japanese :) and when people can't understand what I say, I will tell them this is how it is pronounced in Japan and they can continue with their cows and I can continue with my ka-ous, all is good, no issues at all :)

@@jr9329 , understood. But, in the educational system, where japan spends millions a year and continues to get the same result century after century, it becomes a problem. And, English spelling, well, you know how that goes. Sounds and alphabet spelling or how a word is spelled is inconsistent. When kids constantly katakazie words, you're going to fail your tests. They just refuse to do the right thing and just either spell it the way it is supposed to be spelled or sound it the way it's supposed to be pronounced. And, there you have it. When consulting firms look for bilingual people they don't look towards Japan.

@@jr9329 The TOEIC and TOEFL scores are horrible. But, I had a teacher tell me once, that it's better to teach improper grammar than to teach it correctly where it's really hard!

Get your pokemans off the floor

fr fr

Pokeman

Poky mans lol

Yeah, I got your ‘Pocket Monster’ for you, right HERE! lol

What is a 'Bee', other than an insect?

@@user-kq8if3ud5e Spelling bee

@@user-kq8if3ud5e it’s a tiny fly animal. Make honey

Oh, so helpful and handy. Thank you.

神戸 日清 カルピコ トヨタ ユニクロ アシックス ニコン カシオ ヤクルト ポケモン

Actually Toyota in Chinese is written as 丰/豐田 (Fēng tián; note how different the pronunciation in Chinese is despite using the same script as Japanese _kanji_ ), which translates as 'Toyoda' instead in Japanese, but meanwhile Nikon is tranliterated by its phonetics instead into 尼康 (Ní kāng) for some reason

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Ditto for italians

Also for Germans

Ahuevodesu

Lies, Lies, and more lies

The vowels are certainly pronounced the same. English is more aye ee eye oh you

probably because Japanese does not have 'si' sound. They only have sa shi su se so, but I prefer your theory.

@@DeadHix There is an extended katakana sound for スィ(SI)

@@JamieJamez If presented without contexts, that will still be read as 'Shii' by the Japanese. Besides, Nissin is technically Japanese word and should not be written using katagana to begin with. You still cant convince me otherwise from those CEO trying to troll the gaijins.

There is no c. Like when japanese say see it sounds like she because the sound doesn't exist

@@popn6189 yah you are right.... i mistook the katana su with katakana shi.

But not BY the US consumers. Many non-American companies change their pronounciations for the US market because they think either we're not capable of pronouncing it correctly, we won't buy the product if it "sounds foreign," or it will just make more sense to Americans if it "sounds American." Personally, I'd rather they didn't Anglicize their names, but I have an Eastern European surname.

Everyone does it. No surprises there.

The biggest mispronounce Korean brand is Hyeundai. the proper way is HyeunDAE (dae as in day). Another one similar is tay kwon do. it is TAY kwan doe, not TIE

Ironically, you Americanised the spelling of Americanised. It doesn't have a zed in it, it has an ess.

ive always thought Asics was derived from the word basic as in basic necessities for sports so this was really cool

And it's pronounced "Onitsuka".

It's an acronym for the latin phrase: anima sana in corpore sano = sound mind in a sound body

@@8tonystark8 Yeap we all watched the video like you did :3

@@8tonystark8 and what does that mean?

Some Chinese news reports translate Sony into 新力 (Xīn lì)(which literally means "new strength") & I thought that was how 'Sony' was written in Japanese _kanji_

@@lzh4950 Original comment learned from Morita’s biography. Good book! 👍🏼

Ah yes the "Young Man PlayStation"

A guy at my local gas station has "Sony" on his nametag, pronounced "Sonny"

Another fun fact: there is a Toyoda town in Hino, Tokyo. It has the same spelling, 豊田, as Toyota in Aichi.

Laugh so hard

@@ivankulola5847 language so hard

@@flowerofash4439 😂😂 indeed

Or for brands, "Microsoft" vs something more like "my-kuh-ro-so-fuh-to"

Sutorito faita tuh furashu ( street fighter 2 ' )

I'm proud of you too 👏

Seems like the way we Dutch pronounce it, is the right way too :)

I had no idea it was a Japanese brand lol.

@@harmmiddeljans6468 same in Slovakia and Czech Republic 👍, looks like Europeans know how to pronounce foreign words....not like US and UK folks 🤣

Same here, I've never pronounced it nigh-kon so I'm proud of both of us♡

She's too beautiful. Can't focus! 😍

Actually e.g. 'Asics' is officially 'Onitsuka Tiger' in Japan... the latin Abbreviation is made for western market.

Or just teaching us to not be stupid. Teaching us to be correct

When we talk to Japanese about brands they usually want to sell these products and they know very well what we are talking about. If we speak to ordinary people, it doesn't matter. The owners of these brands don't care how we pronounce them, they only want us to buy them. Toyota in various countries uses local way of saying Toyota. If you want to move to Japan and work for NeeSun then yeah I suppose knowing how to correctly say that is important and surely you'd need to know Japanese itself, but for the rest of us unwashed and dirty gaijin who are just barbarians we only buy the stuff and keep feeding some Japanese salaryman's enjo kosai habit.

She just trying to help educate the US population and doing a far better job than the US Government does.

But Japan switched from copying France to copying Prussia after Prussia showed who's boss in 1879.

Same here, the actual Japanese pronunciation is sooo similar to ours! I didn't they had nasal vowels too

Latin languages seem to give a good base. It’s my Spanish that makes pronouncing Japanese a bit more intuitive for me.

Great, my friend

Most European languages can naturally pronounce japanese words correctly, this video is almost only relevant to native English speakers.

I don't remember that commercial, but I can envision it😂😂😂

Exactly! Thank you.

For its quality? Yes

relate much ☺️

It is expensive in somewhere in Asean. 😭 Me hard to buy it!

@@heika77 Yes but compared to other brands, it's reasonable.

@@heika77 consider the currency rate. The Ordinary retail price is like 10usd and sold 60myr+ in my country. Its not just currency but also cost for duty,shipping and other stuffs

No but you see it's ok for Japanese to mispronounce words, it's not ok for us gaijin foreigners to not say Toyota correctly because it is a holy word made by the sacred Bushido tradition.

@@peterc.1419 As I german I feel similar. It's (M(ama) - air - (ca)ts - (m)a(te) - diss, Be(t) - n(o) - (ca)ts; M air ts a diss, Be n ts (That's the best transcription I could do)) Mercedes-Benz not (Merseediss, Benz)

@@marioo849 he is being sarcastic.

A friend who worked in the Navy told us that once he asked for the initials of a ship that was approaching and the sailor said: furofo. They asked again and he repeated 'furofo'. Until someone realized that he was saying four-o-four ( 404 )...

@@lotus_flower2001 He's should try to do it better then.

Japanese are notoriously bad at English and all of the loanwords are comical.

It's literally spelled "hyun dai" so I don't get how they're getting "hun day" out of it

@@InfernosReaper In Korean it is "hyeon" + "day". The vowel in "hyeon" is similar to an "uh" sound in English but with a bit of an "oh" sound and also a y sound at the beginning, which is softened in many Korean's accent. (The vowel "eo" is made in the lower front part of the mouth.) The "dai" is written "dae" in modern romanization (and pronounced like "day" by most Korean speakers, but the "ae" used to sound more like the "a" in hat), but the vowel "ae" actually is a combination of "a" and "i" and was originally the diphthong "ai" ("eye"). It is no longer pronounced that way in Korean, and hasn't been for a long time, but in Japanese the same Chinese character is pronounced with an "ai" sound.

@@gmalcolms And there in lies they problem, piss-poor romanization that makes it look like it should be something completely different than how it's supposed to be

@@InfernosReaper it's worse than that... it's also cos english itself borrowed the latin alphabet, which does not map well onto a LOT of its native vowel sounds (and quite a few consonants too)... on top of english borrowing super liberally from every other language with their own spelling/pronunciation quirks.

Germans would recommend a name change for Uniqlo too. Because "qlo" sounds like the german word "klo" which means toilet.

In french " e-tron " means ... !

@@tomkiki6499 Haha, yes i know! What a big fail for such a big company like Audi, that they didn't check the name before! 🤦

Hmmmm. Sounds like beer from a fake GTA V game ad or something similar. Brewed from the muddy water of the San Joaquin river, it’s Cal Piss!

@@Roboprogs In Japanese, it's not Cal, it's pronounced Ca-ru -- two syllables.

Me too, my friend. Amazing video 🥰🥰

She's farting into a barrel with her naive insistence that foreigners should pronounce Japanese brand names the way the Japanese pronounce them.

I dont think there are many people in US that buy Calpico either

The pronounciation would be the same in romanian too. I think italian too.

kippis!

Pretty much any language that doesn't use long vowels have it easy too. It's just that English, French, and the like aren't one of those languages. Filipinos, Indonesians, and the like also hsve it easy.

Same voul sounds as Spanish as well

Ditto for Norwegian. Except for the "Asics" one. Nobody gets that one right without having been told the specific Japanese pronunciation.

I bet us Finns find the Japanese vowels ever easier. However, I reckon Germans would probably pronounce some Japanese consonant combinations better than Finns, seeing how German is quite a consonant heavy language, whereas Finnish is a vowel heavy language. Btw, Finns and Swedes could laugh at the American scifi series Stargate because they wrote it as "STARGÅTE". That A with a circle above it is a proper Swedish vowel and sounds totally different from A. Still, in my opinion, the best American brand name is probably Häagen-Dazs (the ice cream brand). It's such a joke to try to pronounce it as it's written, with Ä and A next to each other like that. But yes, the examples you mentioned are excellent as well.

@@herrakaarme :-D I've heard German inspired the Klingon language in Star Trek....it feels familiar somehow.... And Häagen-Dazs...yes. Before I knew better, I tried to pronounce it in all of its Germano-Slavic glory....it's hilarious. With the spelling, Stargate would be closer to Star Goat than to a portal to another dimension? IIRC, Star Gate is a scenario in Goat Simulator....

Ye same here in Holland. But we also pronounce bmw, audi, volkswagen and mercedes as it should be pronounced ;p

I´m Czech. Recently I watched same video of german brands. In the end I find I pronounce mercedes wrong. But now using google translate I see the german lady was actually pronouncing it with english nor german pronouciation. She switched it. 😀

@@michalviktorin6758 Mercedes is hard to pronounce correctly. How we Germans say the car brand is not how the female name sounds in Spanish. So what is "correct" anyway?

omg 😂

Well said!

That's just accent

@@jamesgazeley no, its because they spell english words with katakana and when spoken, the katakana phonetics don't match our english pronounciation. They'de need a major revamp of katakana to be able to match english pronounciation.

@@gregh7457 Well, yes, that's how an accent comes about.

@@jamesgazeley uh.. not exactly. they have kana all over japan and they have different accents within japan. osaka v.s. tokyo for instance

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Lol

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Gu tu herru (go to hell)

@@acethetics1477 should write the pronounce as “go-o-du ha-re” (ゴオヅ晴れ), because Japanese pronunciation doesn’t have “L” sound, and it sound differently for “go” (ゴ) , “to” (ト), & “he” (ヘ) !

Spanish and Portuguese have the pronunciation of the words pretty close to the Japanese, for me the way the word in Romanji is write is the way i have to pronounce.

@@JeanSamyr Same to Finnish people. Vowels are pronounced the same in japanese, portuguese, spanish, italian, finnish. That helps It's rather easy to learn the right pronouncication of japanese language as a Finnish person, when you get those couple of special rules right ☺️

@@mrj.kottari8453 I think the pronunciation on our languages is the standard, English have some issues to be inconsistent on the pronunciation, in English actually don't have a specific way to say, some words simply change the pronounce out of the blue. for me the pronunciation is the hardest thing to learn in English.

@@JeanSamyr The asymmetricity and inconsistency in english come from the fact that it's vocabulary stems from at least 4 different languages; Old English, French, Old German, and Norse (proto Swedish/Danish/Norwegian) Example words that are loans from french have different logic in pronouncing than Old English or loans from Low German. I've spoke/read english for over 30yrs and I still make mistakes in pronouncing thanks to that inconsistency 😂

@@mrj.kottari8453 But Yakult would be still Yakult (not Yakurto), and Nissin would stay Nissin (instead of Nisshin). The pronunciation would be the same (also in Estonian) if all the romanizations were only correct...

Being Australian myself and a Nikon DSLR owner, I got a little surprised hearing people pronounce it "Naikon" on youtube, it really made me question my pronunciation of it (we all pronounced it the same here).

Ha yes we get Nikon right but AIsuzu (Isuzu) always makes me cringe...

Yes we call it Nikon as in knee con, but then some people around here pronouce it "sam-you-rye"

For me Nikon is much better for Indoor. Still good tho I prefer Sony, like damn I love sony mirrorless🤩

UK here, "Naikon" breaks British pronunciation convention, there's no "e" after the "k", there's no additional vowel before to create a diphthong. Short "i" is where it's at for us.

Yeah, it has to do with the phonemes and how used you are to them, or if they exist in your native language in the first place. As a Swede, I also find it easier to pronounce those words.

Also Brazilian Portuguese definitely has some perks and one of them is intonation. Makes everything a bit easier when we're trying to learn Japanese pitch accent.

As a german it's also not hard to pronounce these brands right

same in french

Realmente, eu sempre notei isso. Parece que o português facilita o pronunciamento do japonês. Deve ser porque contem todos os sons naturalmente.

Not similar - Japanese phonemes are a strict subset of Czech phonemes. Czech people can pronounce all the Japanese phonemes easily, but not vice versa.

We pronounce it all correctly in latin language counties too I guess

Interesting, as a portuguese speaker, I got most of them correctly also. Except ASICS. That I got very wrong.

it's a slavic and Latin thing

nah Indonesian pronounce them easily, but maybe not perfect

That's true!

More like "anglicised"

SONY started as SONY

@@SeanAlcorn Well, actually, Sony started as Totsuko (Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo).

And now the western society are having problems with faulty products from China. I prefer to pay the extra money for genuine Japanese Electronics than Chinese products. At least Japanese Products are of quality and I found that Japanese people take pride in what they are making.

the phonemes are very similar

That's because historically the Japanese had some inspiration from Portuguese. And Portuguese is a language very similar to Spanish

Vowel sounds are extremely similar between the two languages. Native Spanish speakers tend to pronounce Japanese fairly well comparatively speaking.

Not all words.

Not really bro.... I don't see that at all. More like Korean and Japanese

There was also the problem with selling the Chevy Nova in Spanish speaking countries, since a car that no va is not a good selling point! 😂

@@LizCowanSC Claro, no se quiere comprar un auto que no va! 😁 I think I've heard this one before but forgot about it. One has to wonder how some large corporations don't check for this kind of issue. I mean, I could understand that you come up with a brand name that has some obscene meaning in an obscure language, or even a language in a different part of the world, and that goes unnoticed. One can hardly check every language and it's debatable if the name of a candy bar sold in Peru has a dirty meaning in Lithuanian or something like this. But how can you not check name compatibility with the target market?!? I wonder if the culprit is some arrogant corporate people who cannot bear the slightest criticism. Otherwise someone in the Spanish or Mexican branch would have reported back to the head honchos saying, that Nova or Pajero is not a good idea. Baffling!

Two peoples separated by a common language.

@@robertolson483 and a bloody great ocean

The kind of accents we are talking about here between the US and the UK are accents spoken from NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS. In the US we also have regional accents. Accents made by non-native speakers are FORIEGN ACCENTS influenced by their mother tongues. Regional accents ≠ foreign accents. Regional accents are not that difficult to understand whereas foreign accents are hard to understand.

Nye-kee and Nu-ick comes to mind.

im Irish and we pretty much pronounced all those brands the correct way.......its just the US that can't pronounce other languages and even English.

Being from india salpis sounds more spanish than sanskrit

Then again there is pis in it so must be from sanskrit

@@capybara_izz_my_spirit_animal i imagine Pis is taken from the word "Piss"....

Salpis is like salty piss?

P*** is copied from pis

This is very common. It's called code switching. It's the same reason that young kids behave differently around their friends than they do with their parents.

@@mikicoal It has nothing to do with behaviour.

@@pauljordan4452 I didn't say it was. I said it was the "reason" that kids behave differently.

haha lmao

But english speakers offten forget ,there is a line above the é Po ké mon And then they say Po kee mon The enhlish speakers pronounce their own language wrong since it comes from pocket in wich you also have the european e sound

What asagi says is the correct sound.. Pocket minus the t and "mon" from monster..

You say poc-ket not po-ker in english. So japanese is closer to right pronunciation. Po keh mon.

At least no one is saying Poke-mon! lol

No its a name.., it should be pronounced on what the owner want you to say.

@@yohavergonzado8112 Completely agree but the problem lies with the official romanization of the East Asian languages (yes, there are official rules). If the romanization is wrong, it makes sense that people are going to pronounce it incorrectly. It's only until you learn the languages (Korean in my case) that you realise how wrong it sometimes is. Hyundai being the worst example I can think of.

@@yohavergonzado8112 My name is Riyo and I want you to pronounce it as Oreo, because it's a name and it should be pronounced as what the owner want people to say, despite of how wrong my spelling was. Or should people pronounced it as "Rambo"? Let me think about my preference of how my name to be pronounced

@@yohavergonzado8112 The owner of the name doesn't make up the rules of the spoken language. Letters make up the sounds that's how language is supposed to work.

Spell it wrong, it will be said wrong.

Heard germans pronounce Seiko as (Saiko)

Japanese people pronounce VW as "Folkswagen" rather than the way Americans say it: Volkswagen with a V sound, as in Victory.

@@midnightrambler6227 No they prounounce it "Fokkusuwagan" Im sure!

@@srajanverma9064 It's actually Forukusuwāgen(フォルクスワーゲン）

@@midnightrambler6227 Ya this one seems correct.. bigger than I thought!

Japaner betonen jede Silbe gleich lang, ohne eine Silbe besonders zu betonen, soweit ich weiß. Im Deutschen betonen wir bei Toyota die zweite Silbe. Bei Kobe betonen wir die erste Silbe. Und bei Nikon sprechen wir das n anders aus, nicht so nasal wie die Japaner.

They are the same everywhere in the world, not only in German. Vowels pronunciation is basically the same in every language but English, because of the vowel shift English went through in the 16th-17th century. In mostly every language the standard way of pronouncing words written in Latin characters is the same it was in Latin: A like MAmA, E like fathEr or mEn, I like bEEn or pIn, O like pOt, U like pUt, or small variations of those. When you write Japanese words in Romanji, Latin alphabet, they pronounce it in the same way as everyone else -- but English.

Same as in Hebrew. In general, native English speakers use different vowel pronounciation when it comes to Latin alphabet vowels. Let's take the word SHALOM in Hebrew for example, native English speakers would pronounce it more as SHAeLOWM.

Or in French, but French is just Italian with a German accent lol.

Also in Spanish. Although b can pronounced like v depending on speaker.

same for estonian and finnish, completely different language family but pronunciation is same - one letter one sound, not like in germanic languages

Italian too.

@@danieldogadajev1545 German pronunciation is very similar to japanese.

Every language has the same vowels.. bar English ..that's why

because English is not very phonetic, whereas a lot of other languages are

Phonetic alphabet basically right

English is just orthographically deeper than, say, German, Spanish, Italian, Malay, or Turkish, and then people apply those rules to a script where there is no such depth

While there are many similar sounds which makes it easier for us Germans than native english speakers, they are not quite the same. We are just able to reproduce the japanese sounds easier because we have almost all of them in our german language in some kind of variation (except the "r" sound). The "u" in german for example is more pronounced like an "ü" in japanese. Also they are called "romaji" which would be pronounced as close to "romadschi", so not quite.. I heard that finnish is closest to japanese in its sounds but I don't really know about that.

As an Indian (Hindi language speaker) I can say the same :) , pronunciation seemed natural

But you germans still pronounce the e suffix as uh. é ist doch nicht so schwer auszusprechen brudi

We are the knights who say ni. 🤣🤣🤣

Oh, what sad times are there when passing ruffians can say "Ni!" at will to old ladies! There is a pestilence in this land! Nothing is sacred! Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history!

The Ministry of Silly Walks - God I love British humour

Better yet: watch the Life of Brian! Even better!

@@Luscious3174 "It's just a flesh wound"

She's not being critical. She's explaining how Japanese pronounce their own companies and how it often is unrecognizable to them. There's probably a lot of examples in reverse too.

Same for French speakers (by the way, I was surprised the accent on pokémon is also present in non-french languages)

Most people in Brazil pronounce Toyota with an open O, like "Tóyóta", but it's a closed vowel "Tôyôta". For the French person above, I used ó and ô as in Portuguese just as a key for the Brazilian person above.

It seems only Americans say "Toyoda"

OK, but how do you pronounce Mazda?

And not like French:D

But only you and those studying or working in the engineering fields would know this Acronym, so yes. ASHIKKUSUU all the wayyyy🤣🤣🤣🤣

Exactly , When first time heard of this brand. I thought it a "smart sneaker " kind of , embedding the ASIC chip inside. it's time The self lacing sneaker in Back to The Future II come to reality.

Crazy bc my Spanish speaking brain thought these acronym were in Italian, because they easy to translate for me. "Alma Sana en cuerpo sano" healty soul in a healthy body"

Anima sana in corpore sano A sound mind in a sound body

I never even knew they had it outside of Japan.

Same. My first pair was bought on base and they’ve been my favorite running shoes for decades since.

@@alukuhito kinda ironic

@@Kettvnen Right? I've lived so long in Japan and have only noticed it here in Japan. The name seemed Japanese to me. I guess it's like how most Japanese think that Auld Lang Syne is a Japanese song, because they've only heard it in Japan and it's such a normal tune that can be heard daily in Japan, and even has Japanese lyrics.

@@alukuhito the fact that auld lang syne is popular in japan surprises me

probably. it a weird human trait!

I find myself doing a mixture depending on how popular the asian loaned engrish version is lol

It's true. I'm a teacher in Philippines and I can speak fluent English. But again, English is not Asian's first language. Everyone was different. Some are already good at it and some are still learning. In order for them to understand, I have to make my English a little broken to emphasize the words I want them to understand more. For example; instead of saying "No thanks, I ate already. How about you?" I will say "No. Me done eating. You?" But I believe this goes to not just Asians. I believe people around the world that doesn't use English as their first language, also use broken English to communicate with people who are still learning it. Also, does your Asian friend that speaks perfect English has the same Asian ethnicity with the other Asians he talk to? That must be a factor to it. Not all Asians speaks the same language.

PhD students joining the primate sign language development programme were taken aback when they discovered the chimpanzees would talk down to them and sign slowly and "loudly".

Because it's a different language lololol even though it uses English words. It might be"broken" English but it's not broken Singlish or Malaysian English, Japanese English or whatever language that they were speaking hahahahaha

Yeah, Arabic and Japanese have a similarity where they are both phonetic language where every characters have a consistent sound/pronunciation. English on the other hand have a very inconsistent sound, like how every "e" in Mercedes each have different sound if you pronounce it in American accent.

Mi ŝatas Esperanton. 😁

It just has something to do with the letters being accurate to pronunciation which in English it isn’t. The same applies for German speakers they will also pronounce the words more or less correctly due to this fact.

@@kaannagumanov1185 okay

Me as a Portuguese speaker:

Wow that emblem is very cool

LATTER*

@@GabeWatchesAnime Thanks.

That’s a hard one that took me like a few good years to finally get down 😂

*マクドナルド

But you don't use father's name like our mutual friends to the east :)

Almost all languages use first surname and then name.

That's because most Hungarians were decedents of Mongolians.

@@user-ru1ki By almost all, you mean the five you're aware of?

@@deanronson6331 What do you mean five?

Yes, Calpis always reminds me of: COW PISS. ;-)

In your own country, pronounce it how your own people pronounce, but when you visit Japan, switch to Japanese pronunciation. Same applies for other international brands like IKEA (in Sweden it sounds more like ii kay uh not eye KEY uh) or Nokia (in Finland it is NOH kya not No Ki uh).

In German you'd read "uniqlo" as "uni-klo" and "klo" means "toilet" in German. Calling it "unikuru", same as in Japanese, would make way more sense.

so... the rest of the worlds languages who isnt japanese or english has a free pass too? right?

@@Ailasor right

@@Ailasor its like an accent theres no wrong accent 😊

American voiced tapped t sounds like tapped r to speakers of a lot of other languages. Better becomes berer, water becomes waaaarer, got to becomes gara and so on.

​@@Sylkis89amazing! So they don't hear the consonant sound flap 'T' at all? To me as a native speaker of English the /d/sound really stands out even though I know apparently its not quite a full /d/ sound

@@kabedondon most dialects of English don't have a tapped r. I guess Scottish English has and some very old fashioned English people sometimes tap the r in some contexts. But I never heard USAmericans do that, but it's rather theatrical nowadays. USamericans always pronounce it either as a liquid r or as a rhoticised schwa vowel, depends on a context. Never tapped. At least to my knowledge. If someone does it's a dead giveaway it's an immigrant lol Also, mind the difference between tapped and trilled. Like in Spanish a single r is tapped, and double rr is trilled and it makes a phonemic difference. Also, other dialects of English usually don't have the American tapped t. It's actually unique to North American dialects, for the most part at least, cause surely you will be able to find instances of it in other dialects, but it's just very rare. You're more likely to come across glottal stops instead in other English speaking regions. Tapped r and tapped t don't sound exactly the same, physically it's a slightly different shape/position of the tongue, but are phonetically they are extremely similar to unstrained ears and it's an objective fact. They are very hard to distinguish when listening to a recording to most people who did not learn to be sensitive to the nuances when they're well accustomed to both sounds. Of course once you fo learn the difference your brain will pick up on the nuances and big them up in your head, create an illusion to make the distinction easier for you. And if whilst technical untrained you think they're not similar it's probably because your mind is already playing the same tricks on you by creating an illusion of tapped r sounding more like liquid r than it really does, and tapped t sounding more like regular d than it does. Which infact I say tapped t because I refer to the letter, but it's accually more of a tapped d phonetically and you do have a tapped d in American pronunciation as well and there's no difference in sound between them, just in spelling you write them dow differently and it may affect how you think about them that they're separate despite sounding the same. Which is probably why you associate tapped t with d - cause you do in some contexts tap both, but because you also voice the tapped t it makes those variants of t and d sound the same, but you still notice it's not exactly the same as a regular plosive d. But yeah if you ask for instance a Polish person to transcribe how they hear USAmerican accent with Polish orthography, if you give them a phrase like "We've got to move out" they will write down "łi gara muw ałt" (Polish ł sound like w in English and Polish w sounds like v in English lol). I know Spanish speakers also often think that water is pronounced warer and get confused when you tell them it's actually not lol but remember that they think of a different r than the liquid r USAmericans associate with this letter. Bonus fact. Japanese lateral r is technically a yet different sound physically but it's also very similar sounding to tapped r to untrained ears. But because it's lateral that's why it makes it difficult for many Japanese people to tell the difference between r and l lol and once they learn how to pronoucne American style liquid r they also pronounce l that way a lot of times and it takes some work for them to actually learn the nuances that neither English r not l sound like the Japanese r, that Japanese r is just something in between the two. It's kinda like if I pronoucned Polish sz and ś to you, you will probably hear both as sh and will have a hard time learning the difference lol

@@kabedondon when you learn a language's phonology, your brain makes perceptual adjustments whenever hearing speech, makes some approximations. Otherwise it would be impossible to communicate as everyone speaks a little differently, even the same person will speak less clearly when tired after jogging or drunk and so on yet you understand them. The same mechanism kicks in when you listen to a foreign language and your brain tries to apply approximations of your native langauges phonology and makes you misinterpret some things as a result and it is sometimes hard to learn to perceive it otherwise, learn to hear the nuances. For me a lot of English vowels still feel like they rhyme even if they don't for native speakers, despite me being able to easily tell the difference at this point and also pronounce them correctly the non-native feel towards them remains. Like in American English I'd say that 'matter' and 'butter' rhyme despite me being to easily tell that the a and the u are not pronoucned the same. They still feel simialr to me because we don't have so many vowels in Polish and the contrast between some English vowels would be just intonation in Polish perception.

@@Sylkis89 You could hear an 'r' instead of a 'd' in Southern accents, but not everyone in the States talks like that.

Yeah, that still makes me facepalm, on both sides.

LOL, I just googled it!!!

“Toy Yoda” is about how it is pronounced around here.

Can you give an example of California and Texan saying the same word differently ? It’s not that different isn’t it? That’ll be like Kyoto and Tokyo accent. Very similar.

@@PcflsfThe word Ten. In much of Oklahoma and Texas it’s pronounced “tin”. The pronunciation of “Louisiana” is another that varies.

Dialects really, not accents

I think opposite is true.

Ya the U.S. had more of a influence on Japan after WWII when we were helping rebuild there country.

Europe and America sure had some influences on life and art in Japan but one of the major differences between western influences on Japan and japanese influences on the west is that: Japan is and always was an assimilation culture. Meaning they apopt something and make it Japanese while wester culture tends to simply immitate. To get an idea I recommand to read Peter Schilling's "Encyclodepia of Japanese Pop Culture".

@@corneliusdobeneck4081 I'm not sure. There are many non-European things which were assimilated into Western culture. Take something like food in the States, you have everything from Chinese to Russian to French etc... even if much of the time it's been changed, eg pizza outside of Italy vs Italian pizza. I think there isn't a difference otherwise we have to ask... are Japanese different people to Europeans or everyone else? There is no basis for this in biology or sociology. Japanese are island people. But so are the British and Irish. So are the Taiwanese. Even the Swiss could be thought to be isolated as though Island people...

@@corneliusdobeneck4081 But I was even going to mention aspects of Asian dress which made it's way into European culture, food, music, algebra... etc... from East. Coffee is a good example. There is also tea. Westerners made these their own.... then Japan took from the West coffee and tea....

It depends where you're from, but it's only the US and Canada that use Nye-Kon.

@@sarfaraz.hosseini but technically bowie's pronounciation is the correct one

@@sarfaraz.hosseini It also spread into German like cancer, due to advertising, especially in the younger crowd. The same applies to Canon. Apart from some dialects, the vowels in the English language are a mess, and don't get me started on diphthongs.

You sure it was Esperanto? The made up language devised in the late 19th century? Schools in Nottingham only taught latin, French and German in the 60s.

Yes, Nihongo (and Tagalog) are syllabic languages. Ta, Ka, Tse, Ba, and so on. Romance languages, Korean, Chinese, etc. are letter based. However, I also noticed that vowel pronunciations between Asian and Western languages are different too. Here in Asia, regardless if it is syllabic or letter-based, vowels are pronounced one way, like "a" is "ah" not "ey". So apple is "ah-pol" not "ey-pol", and so on. Many, if not all, Western languages have weird vowel pronunciations which in turn causes confusion when one tries to read Asian languages. For example, the Filipino food "taho" or "balut"/"balot". I've heard Western foreigners say it as "tey-ho" and "bey-lut" respectively. Another example is ASEAN. Asian pronunciations are: ah-syan and ah-si-yan. Westerners pronounce it as "ey-sea-an"; and without proper context, we can't understand it. 😅😅😅😅

... pronounce French* brands

I somehow forgot to say "ball" 🥴

@@AsagisLifeNoBSJapan a Japanese using "basket" to refer to "basketball" is actually prety common, so you're not exactly in the wrong either

except in France where basketball is called basket (and the shoo too^^)!

@@Burneth_ We all know that, I'm telling her that most know it as basketball lol

@@paulgrougnie7028 are you french my friend

Pokemon and Kobe as well

Even SUZUKI

@@rafaellucero5098 não cara, se vc acha que a pronúncia certa de _suzuki_ é _sudzuki_ , vc tá enganado. A pronúncia certa é exatamente igual a gente fala aqui mesmo What Karim Maassen said btw was news to me, I didn't no, but makes sence, because _matsuda_ is an actual japanese surname (tsu, not dzu)

I learned that after moving to Hiroshima 😂

@@99Gara99 "suzu (fast pronunciation) -ki"

As a kid who grew up in the US, that’s how my mom said it. Then realized it was a Japanese brand. 🙄

Thanks for adding your insight!

Dude, I'm bilingual and people still wanna fight me. I don't think speaking the same language helps people get along, it just helps people come up with more creative insults, lol

@@Mendrawza24 I understand that. There's many things a common language can't compensate for.