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

What's up Asaginators! It's unfortunate that some people get offended by the title although I said in the intro that I'm simply sharing "Japanese brand names you pronounce differently". Please don't take the title as an offence since I choose it just for YouTube algorithm. I appreciate your feedback though! My Instagram: asagine Twitter: asagine_T Similar video: How To Pronounce Japanese Car Brands ▶ https://youtu.be/Q61xvPP9Yg8

Japanese: "You are pronouncing our brands wrong!" Also Japanese: "MakUDonArUdO"

why is everybody so hurt? she is not judging or even asking you to use the japanese pronunciation, just chill. If you like learning languages you will find this really interesting.

1:17 Kobe 2:17 NISSIN 3:09 CALPIS/ CALPICO 4:04 TOYOTA 5:05 UNIQLO 5:42 ASICS 6:28 Nikon 7:16 CASIO 7:43 Yakult 8:32 Pokémon

FUN FACT: Akio Morita, a founder of SONY, wanted to name the company something that sounded very American. In the late 40’s and 50’s, “sonny” was slang for “young man”. They dropped an ‘N’ and named the company SONY. Thank you for great video!

Nissin owners hiding the "h" and waiting for the chance to correct foreign investors during awkward business meetings😂

As long as you don't say "pokeman" we can still be friends.

As a long-time retail worker in Canada, we had many discussions on how to pronounce words; like Nikon and Casio. We had even had representatives from the companies tell us different pronunciations. It was so frustrating. Thank you for these videos! It’s so nice to hear things from a native speaker. 💜

Arabic speaker here and I'm quite surprised of how well we pronounce these Japanese brand names correctly since English isn't our first language, so it's hard to mispronounce most of these

Spanish speaker here, we pronounce almost everyone of these brands as they should be pronounced. Can confirm.

Didn't even know "Asics" was a japanese brand.

I find the diversity of pronunciation allows me to keep an open mind about how different the rest of the world can be (on a very small level of course). Rather than seeing these as mispronounced, I just see it as different cultures adding their diverse perspectives on it. In a way, it’s almost more fun to have different takes on pronunciation. In the US, there are millions of travelers from around the world coming through here every year, and hearing their unique accents makes it fun, and reminds you that there isn’t only one way to operate in this world. I have found that there is almost no culture that pronounces the same word in the same tone. Even in America, a Californian will say certain words differently than it would be said by a traditional accent from Texas, Louisiana, or New York as an example. We’re all “American” speaking English, and yet the same words are said differently. In any event, thank you for sharing the pronunciation of these words from the origin country’s perspective. It’s always nice to learn how the culture these words came from pronounces them. Please share more if they come to you!

Thank you for sharing. Love the little history lessons behind the names, too.

Looks like I've been pronouncing Nikon correctly the whole time. I'm so proud of myself 😎

She's just teaching us how to pronounce the brands so that when we talk to japanese they will understand what we are saying.

Toyota isn't our fault. That is how Toyata themselves pronounce it in their English commercials.

I appreciate you creating and posting this video 🙏I enjoyed learning the proper pronunciation and also the knowledge /history as well . Thank you 😌

Pronunciation of words really does make a difference. When I was in Japan I went to a MOS burger and ordered a cheeseburger. The person taking my order looked at me like I was speaking a different language even though I was speaking Japanese. I then realized even though cheeseburger was an English if I didn't pronounce it as if it were Japanese or written in Romaji or whatever was still like a foreign language. So After I said Chiizu Baaga everything was all good. lol

I love how she explains the background story as well ☺️

Thank you for the explanation and context. I am enamored with the Japanese culture and language, it's a great combination of art and precision.