Japanese pronunciation of Car Brands

This video shows the correct Japanese pronunciation of popular Japanese car brands including Nissan, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Toyota, Mazda, Daihatsu, Honda and Lexus.

[mcmtv]

Just noticed that 80 people have 'Disliked' the way that Japanese people pronounce the names of their own companies? WTF??

[STAG]

0:24 She wanted to say Mighty Car Modsu... but she stopped herself.

[PetermusPrime]

Now get a German to pronounce the German brands, a French person for the French brands, an Italian for the Italian brands...oh and a Korean for the Korean brands.

[googleboughtmee]

If you're wondering why the Mazda one sounds strange - in Japanese it's Matsuda (マツダ) so that's the word she says here, not Mazda. You can't make the word Mazda using the Japanese alphabet. (Also, Lexus becomes Rekusasu.)

[Odium]

Hahaha I like the "What the hell was that one?" look on her face at the end

[ELIXIRBunny]

I can relate to this because of initially starting off with saying Vehicle brand names in the Japanese accent I find it hard to sometimes figure out the right way to say the name in English. Like for example saying Mercedes, would be more like
 Me-ru-se-de-su in japanese and it was a hard transition getting used to it. XD

[markdunseith]

Nissan (NEE-SAN) and people thought that I was "saying it wrong" ha ha!!

[xxDOTHDEWxx]

Guess I've been driving around a cool Matsda 3. Sweet!

[cruzader]

I'm glad Mighty Car Mods is a Japanese car brand ;D

[frnz]

At Nissan
Sasuke be like "thats my favorite brand"

[edwardcm]

whooa this is awesome! pronunciation is very important to me so thank you

[peterpayne]

Nikon, here, is pronounced nee-KON, which I just can't get used to. It stands for 日本光学工業株式会社 (Nihon Kougaku Kogyo Kabushiki-gaisha) or Japan Optical Industries Inc.

[splewy]

Hah! People always give us Americans shit for our pronunciation, but according to this we pronounce almost all of these either dead on or pretty close. I've always wondered why the Brits pronounced Nissan as "Nih-sen", Honda as "Honder", Mazda as "Maaazder", ect.

[kojifujita]

Her Japanese intonation is West Japan.
West Japanese →Ma-↑Tsu-↓DA , East Japanese　↑Ma-↓Tsu-→DA

[Pong-Lenis]

We pronounce it excactly the same here in the koenigseggs-country, except for Mazda and lexus. We say it like Mah-zda, lehk-suus
:)

[gktwgcu]

She blinks for every syllable. That may be the first step in learning this language.

[clockwise]

I know they say "Nee-san" but there is no way I'm ever going to say that! :p

[damonhumphreys]

Hahahaaa, that last one threw her off.

[bandwagon]

I thought the Aussies and Brits pronounced Nissan incorrectly. Nissin is ramen noodles.

[Hammer]

Thanks Guys.
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