I'm Pretty Sure Most Of You Pronounce The Names Of Certain Pieces Of Gear Horribly Wrong.

ehgg or eygg

I have to admit that it's secretly hilarious to hear NA players try to pronounce Japanese gear, skills, etc.

I don't make a big deal out of it and rarely correct people. I'm not "that guy."

Unless, of course you're a *** who likes to make fun of folks who don't speak English. At which point, it's open season.

Those folks need to be corrected, and it's funny how really angry they get when you do.

It's engrish get it right!

Oh god..that reminds me of a friend of mine and the way he (tries) to pronounce Meriphataud Mountains. "Merro-fichuated Mountains".

Worst part for me is the "ey" or "ay" instead of the Japanese E sound.

Is anyone familiar with IPA? I would love to see an IPA rundown of game terms, especially the Sea mobs

I still hear people pronouncing Qufim as Kwiffim. As is having a pug NM spelled out for you won't do it.

I say the chasm the same way. :x
Isn't it Pig-ashes?

This. Seriously where the *** is the R. It's one thing to just not know how it goes or where the sylablles are but adding letter wtf. Though alot of cities up here give people trouble.

Like say I've heard Bothell pronounce brothel.
Chehalis pronounce um Chey-hall-is
Kennewick prounounce ken-new-ick
Heard Puyallup butchered like 50 different ways lol.
Even tacoma gets mispronounced.

Odlly enough no one messes up Vader even though like maybe 1k people live there lol

i have a hard time pronouncing a majority of the areas and items in this game. not embarrassed to say but most of the words are a tad bit confusing to say.

Of course no one *** up Vader! They all think of Darth Vader!

I probably say everything wrong. I know ~nothing about Japanese culture, I just pronounce things how they make sense to me until I'm told otherwise.

Bastok: Bas-TOHK
Sandoria: Sand-OR-ee-ah
Qufim: KWIFF-um
Pigaches: Pig-AH-cheese
Dynamis: DIE-nam-us

Those are probably all so terribly incorrect, lol. But I don't actually see how it matters, considering I really only say them in my head, anyways, almost never out loud. I've heard lots of different pronunciations for a lot of different places from my in-game friends on vent or telephone, but as long as we all know what we're all talking about, what does it matter? I don't care if people say 'American' words wrong, either, as long as I know what they mean.

How do you get "-us" when it's an "is"? <_<

It's greek

the pronunciation of "Hagun" at the end of this video, among other things

is a running joke in our ls

fixed. <3

I don't even wanna touch this one :(

that one actually is easy

Nan-at-soo Say-ah no tah-chi

Nah-nah-Tsoo-uh-Say-yah.

Ruining my fun!

I guess at least the Japanese names are phonetic, everything else is a hit or miss lol.

Oh! Oh! and on Hagun, I think it's supposed to be pronounced

Hah-Goon

I do not speak English, what do ; ;?

I don't think I've ever pronounced "Hpemde" correctly...

Heres a couple funny ones, my Real life friend used to say these and i laughed my *** off every time.

Gil ~ Well... Gil lol. G ~ Ill.

He would say Jill. With a J. Was quite humurous.

And San d'oria. Well. San ~ d ~ oria...

He would say Sano~dria.

We would bust his balls all the time. But he would never change how he said it. Its quite funny how we read it one way, say it and never change how we say it.

I read Homam, and say Homan.
I cant think of any others off the top of my head though ><

I always miss-pronounce Valkurm to Valkrum. >.<

Japanese is really easy to pronounce. Every vowel is always the same no matter where in the word it comes.

a - ah, rhymes with "cot"
i - ee, rhymes with "tea"
u - oo, rhymes with "two"
e - eh, rhymes with "meh"
o - oh, rhymes with "toe"

That's it. As long as you stick to those sounds, and don't try to use any American vowel sounds like the short a in "cat" or the long i in "kite," (they don't exist), you're good.

And stick to them no matter where they come in the word: sake is pronounced sah-keh, not sah-kee or seyk.

Westerners almost always get these wrong because they're used to vowels that change pronunciation depending where they are in the word. Don't do that!

So by that rule,

Hagun = "hah-goon"
Nanatsusaya = "nah-nah-tsoo-sah-yah"
Hachiman = "hah-chee-mahn"
Seiryu = "seh-ee-ryoo" (When spoken quickly, the eh and ee here blend into something that sounds like "say-ryoo")

"ex-arcy-bard" <--- makes me laugh

is it "teeya-matt" or "tie-matt" or "tee-ah-mit"??