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"

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

So, I live in a house where I decided to learn Spanish, downloaded Duolingo for my kids to learn Spanish, And now I have a household with me speaking Spanish, my daughter speaking French, and my son speaking Japanese. 😂😂😂 No one understands each other unless we speak English and even then… well, if you have children or have kids in your life, you understand. One thing I like doing with them is teaching them the etymology of words. We even have contests to see how many names in the credits of movies they each pronounce correctly. Etymology came up when I was helping my daughter study for a Bee and is was guiding her on how to get information she needed to spell the questions correctly. Language learning is fun and it opens you up to different cultures. We do tend to use the Americanized versions of words, though unless we are practicing other languages.

Reminds me of the commercial for the 1981 Isuzu. There was a Japanese manager trying to coach an American salesman to say, "Isuzu," and he kept failing. In the end, the salesman is all bummed out, and the manager says, "Dat's OK, kid. I can't say 'Cheveray'."

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.

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

Having lived in Japan for 12 years, I can see your perspective. A lot of those names have been "Americanized" for the US consumers since the last century, so we have accepted the pronunciation. The same goes true with the Korean brands as well; when I am in Korea, I hear the name brands pronounced differently on local TV.

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

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

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

You can thank Paul Simon’s song “Kodachrome” in the 70s for at least some of the Nye kon pronunciation in North America. International branding is kind of random though. I remember Hyundai tv commercials telling us it ‘rhymes with Sunday’. And yet I still hear people saying Hyun die all the time.

Great video, I really liked this content! I subscribed because you have great energy, keep it up.

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!

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

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. 💜

Love this, learning Japanese for fun so it’s great to fix my pronunciation mistakes on brand names which I should be getting right.

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

I actually learnt the English pronunciation with this video. As a French native, Japanese words sounds very easy to my ears and we pronounce many of them the same.

I like these videos! Thank you, and please make more of these. I like to correct my mispronunciations. :-)