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

10 Japanese brands you pronounce wrong! Do you know how to pronounce pokemon in japanese? In this video I'm showing you how to pronounce brand names in Japanese such as Toyota, Uniqlo, Nikon, Pokemon etc.
Watch if you want to know how to pronounce Japanese words correctly!

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[AsagisLifeNoBSJapan]

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!
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Similar video: How To Pronounce Japanese Car Brands

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

[silvialollin]

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

[lucimendez]

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.

[Trinigmatic]

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.

[sailenthotcarathot]

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

[FilosophicalPharmer]

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!

[InconsistentContent]

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

[airplanebuilder]

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.

[dsch]

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

[E-delweiss]

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.

[birdup]

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

[markoshun]

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.

[kriksizanderson]

*Japanese video game narrative:* “STREET FIGHTER!”
Japanese: “Sutorito Faita”

[LadyHermes]

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

[seanryan]

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'."

[Moksha-Raver]

Not really familiar with Cal Piss, but changing the English name of this product made a lot of sense.

[jeslynsee]

I love how she explains the background story as well ☺️

[KasukeVX]

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

[vrfan]

Interestingly, in Australia we pronounce Nikon as "Nikon" not "Naikon". Plus I've used Nikon cameras for many years :)