Pronounciations

[Stephen]

Bearing in mind that I'm English so my pronunciation of the English terms should be seen as canon ; )

Hyur: Hy-urgh (similar to the pronounciation of urgh)

Elezen: Eh-leh-zen

Miqo'te: Mee-koe-tay


Roegadyn: Dog-Head ... Jk Jk! Roe-ga-din



Referencing the Japanese versions doesn't work properly as some races have totally different names, for example;

Miqo'te is pretty much the same

ミ コ ッ テ
Mi Ko T Te Pronounced: Mee ko te


Hyur is different in Japanese - they call them Hyurans

Hi Yuu Ra N
ヒ ュー ラ ン Pronounced: He yoo ra n

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

I say them as this:

Hyur: Slave Labor

Elezen: Front Line Fodder

Miqo'te: Sexy Master Race

Roegadyn: Large Slave Labor

Lalafell: Tasty Morsel

[Lady]

I know this doesn't make sense to pronounce it this way but:

Eorzea - Ez - oh- ree- ah

[Vilhem]

Bearing in mind that I'm English so my pronunciation of the English terms should be seen as canon ; )

Hyur: Hy-urgh (similar to the pronounciation of urgh)

Elezen: Eh-leh-zen

Miqo'te: Mee-koe-tay


Roegadyn: Dog-Head ... Jk Jk! Roe-ga-din



Referencing the Japanese versions doesn't work properly as some races have totally different names, for example;

Miqo'te is pretty much the same

ミ コ ッ テ
Mi Ko T Te Pronounced: Mee ko te


Hyur is different in Japanese - they call them Hyurans

Hi Yuu Ra N
ヒ ュー ラ ン Pronounced: He yoo ra n

You're right in that there's the discrepancy with "hyur" and "hyuran", but all that really changes is the +an sound, so its not "totally" different.

Of note is how the JP spell things phonetically (to the best of their ability) based on the spellings used with roman letters.

Roegadyn: ru ga di n

Minfilia: Mi n fi ri a

Ascilia: A shi ri a

F'lhaminn: Fu * ra mi n

Thancred: Sa n ku re ddo

Yda: I da

Papalymo: Pa pa ri mo

etc >.>

I know this doesn't make sense to pronounce it this way but:

Eorzea - Ez - oh- ree- ah

That is quite a stretch o.O;;

[Lady]

That is quite a stretch o.O;;

Lol its not even a stretch its completely WRONG. But I'm stuck saying it that way in my head.

[Stephen]

You're right in that there's the discrepancy with "hyur" and "hyuran", but all that really changes is the +an sound, so its not "totally" different.

Of note is how the JP spell things phonetically (to the best of their ability) based on the spellings used with roman letters.

Roegadyn: ru ga di n

Minfilia: Mi n fi ri a

Ascilia: A shi ri a

F'lhaminn: Fu * ra mi n

Thancred: Sa n ku re ddo

Yda: I da

Papalymo: Pa pa ri mo

etc >.>



That is quite a stretch o.O;;

To some extent yes, but that's generally with foreign words. They have their own word for human, but since they're translating words with Katakana to have them sound a bit 'mysterious' they'd probably have gone with:

Hi yuu ma n


But either way it's all good, BRING ON THE BETA !!!

[Vilhem]

Try easing into it like this:

say "A" as in long sound, as in "pray"

then say "or"

then "zee"

then "ah!" as if you just had a good thought lol.

With difficult words that don't sound native to you, best thing to do is break them up and ease into them like that. Say them slow, monotone, then ease into saying it faster until you master it. I taught a good many people at my old job how to get down proper Spanish pronunciations this way xD

[Lady]

Try easing into it like this:

say "A" as in long sound, as in "pray"

then say "or"

then "zee"

then "ah!" as if you just had a good thought lol.

With difficult words that don't sound native to you, best thing to do is break them up and ease into them like that. Say them slow, monotone, then ease into saying it faster until you master it. I taught a good many people at my old job how to get down proper Spanish pronunciations this way xD

Printing your post out and pinning it on my cubicle, figure after a week of seeing it, itll come natural to say it right.

[Shougun]

Try easing into it like this:

say "A" as in long sound, as in "pray"

then say "or"

then "zee"

then "ah!" as if you just had a good thought lol.

With difficult words that don't sound native to you, best thing to do is break them up and ease into them like that. Say them slow, monotone, then ease into saying it faster until you master it. I taught a good many people at my old job how to get down proper Spanish pronunciations this way xD

Ah - or - zee ah...


ok so like A Orange Zebra!!!


Since we were talking about languages before I wanted to add - love the letter based phonetics that we can make so many weird sounds lol


You where showing Japanese of the English equivalent, Hanbāgā (ハンバーガー)-> Hamburger, getting a close phonetic is pretty much impossible with that kind of Asian base language (Like Chinese). However put in some accent marks in English (or other relating letter bases (we are a big family of languages )) and you can get pretty dang close lol. Of course the Asian languages have their benefits too (like 1-3 compact images per whole meaning (Kanji/Chinese) vs 2++ drifting images per word)

Its too bad we dont have a larger acceptance of accent marks in English - a lot of borrowed words would be said closer to the original with tiny tweaks, not only sounding more worldly of a language it'd also be more consistent for pronunciation lol.

[Vilhem]

Ah - or - zee ah...

Since we were talking about languages before I wanted to add - love the letter based phonetics that we can make so many weird sounds lol


You where showing Japanese of the English equivalent, Hanbāgā (ハンバーガー)-> Hamburger, getting a close phonetic is pretty much impossible with that kind of Asian base language (Like Chinese). However put in some accent marks in English (or other relating letter bases (we are a big family of languages )) and you can get pretty dang close lol. Of course the Asian languages have their benefits too (like 1-3 compact images per whole meaning (Kanji/Chinese) vs 2++ drifting images per word)

Its too bad we dont have a larger acceptance of accent marks in English - a lot of borrowed words would be said closer to the original with tiny tweaks, not only sounding more worldly of a language it'd also be more consistent for pronunciation lol.

Yeah, accents would go a long way in helping with some pronunciations, like we have in English "read" as in "I will read this book", and then we have past tense "I read that book". Then you say, "I like the color red". The last two sound the same, but a foreigner will be like "wtf?! which one do I write?" I dealt with a lot of this at my old job, and sometimes we just had to chalk it up to memorization lol [ I worked as an ESL/Spanish Tutor/Interpreter at my old university while I was doing my undergrad btw >.> ] It was especially funny to hear them say "shit" of paper, instead of "sheet", since they are trying to engrain their minds not to fall back on "ee" so much XD.

It's interesting how you mention Hanbāgā (ハンバーガー)... the "n" can change to "m", depending on the consonant that comes after it. In this case, you would actually hear "hambaga" because the b, or a p, will change that sound to "m". It's the same with other, similar words, like パソコン "pa so con" (persocom), you would hear it "pa so com", because it is actually an abbreviation of the words パーソナルコンピュータ "pa-so na ru ko m pyu-ta" (personal computer).

This rule also exists in Spanish, albeit slightly different. Our "b" and "v" sound nearly identical in spoken language, but when the b follows m, it makes a harder b sound. "Coh-lom-bee-ah" instead of "Coh-lom-vee-ah" (Colombia) if that makes sense lol.

/nerd ><;;