How do you pronounce......

Tamiya is TA-ME-YA.

Hasegawa is: HA-ZAE-GA-WA     ZAE is like in amAzing. All other A are pronounced like Amazing

yay, fun thread, i will join in too.

from what I know.

Tamiya would be Ta (like in TAr)- Mi (from ME) - Ya (from YeAH... lol, can't believe they end up being words...)  TA means field, and MIYA is something like a palace.

Hasegawa is Ha-Se (from SEction) - Ga (from GUArd) - Wa (from ...ever heard of WAWA's? there is this one convenience store next to my work...)

archangel571 wrote:

Tamiya would be Ta (like in TAr)- Mi (from ME) - Ya (from YeAH... lol, can't believe they end up being words...)  TA means field, and MIYA is something like a palace. Hasegawa is Ha-Se (from SEction) - Ga (from GUArd) - Wa

Having met and spoken to both Mr. Tamiya and Mr. Hasegawa on many occasions, I can confirm that the above is absolutely correct.

RadMax8 wrote:

I say it like this- Tah-Mi-Uh Has-eh-gah-wah Course that's just here in Ohia... hehe

I'm witch you! Cambridge, Ohio.

After the Japanese ones, you can mess around trying to get the Czech ones right!

Smer (Smnyair) I haven't stuck that nifty accent mark over the e, but when you see an m immediately followed by an e with that accent mark, it creates a distinct "nyu" sound between the m and e sounds.

Bilek (Bee-lek).

Don't even get me started on the proper pronunciation of the full, proper name of Kopro.

Likittysplit wrote:

RadMax8 wrote: I say it like this- Tah-Mi-Uh Has-eh-gah-wah Course that's just here in Ohia... hehe I'm witch you! Cambridge, Ohio.

Being, as I am, European, I've always worked off the typical European concept of emphasising the first syllable. Or at least, not emphasising the second. Thus, by coincidence, it seems that I've managed to get them correct, judging by the above posts.

NTM

RadMax8 wrote:

I say it like this- Tah-Mi-Uh Has-eh-gah-wah Course that's just here in Ohia... hehe

Ditto

David

Armour_freek wrote:

RadMax8 wrote: I say it like this- Tah-Mi-Uh Has-eh-gah-wah Course that's just here in Ohia... hehe   Ditto   David

That is correct, except YA in Tamiya is pronounced more like JA.

7 Years in Japan has tought me something, at least.

Tamiya and Hasegawa are easy to pronounce, since the Japanese language only has 5 vowel sounds!

A - like the u in mud, but you have to open your mouth wider

E - like the e in get

U - like the oo in toot

I - like the ee in meet, but just a tad shorter

O - like the o in orange

So Tamiya is pronounced tum-EE-yuh

Hasegawa is huh-seh-GAH-wah

(The uppercase letters denote the stress.)

albert_sy2 wrote:

Hasegawa is huh-seh-GAH-wah

"Ha" is huh and "ga" is GAH???  you are contradicting yourself there buddy.

Well, I would have liked to say it's pronounced as it's spelled.

HA SE GA WA.

when you use parts from a tamiya and a hasegawa you pronounce it

tah me gah wah on the mainland and on the smaller islands it is

a  hah zee me ya

zokissima wrote:

A little OT, but does anyone but me find the Japanese language, when spoken by a female correctly, to be super sexy.

zokissima wrote:

A little OT, but does anyone but me find the Japanese language, when spoken by a female correctly, to be super sexy.

zokissima wrote:

A little OT, but does anyone but me find the Japanese language, when spoken by a female correctly, to be super sexy.

LOL...  now i am glad my mom hardly ever talks to me in japanese.  but the girls I got to know in college, which is rare too since a lot of the japanese kids all go back to japan for college after highschool, they were darn rite sexy even when they are not speaking.  and then taking it to another level, when they did speak, they had japanese anime girl voices!!!

Likittysplit wrote:

RadMax8 wrote: I say it like this- Tah-Mi-Uh Has-eh-gah-wah Course that's just here in Ohia... hehe I'm witch you! Cambridge, Ohio.

In Indiana, we pronounce it by pointing at the catalog the shop owner is holding and grunting