My car? oh I just bought a Piujet 

Yes actually, unanswered question. When a Msian conversing/talking in English or Malay or Mandarin/Hokkien/Cantonese/whatever or Tamil/Urdu (not in deutch lah put it simply) and then suddenly pronounce 'Volkswagen' the german-way 'folks-wah-gern', do you think he'll sound like a fag? Bcoz I don't hear people say it in normal day-to-day conversation.

Thanks for the videos bro  great stuff!

Well, there may be merit to it but I am also seeing some heavy American influence in some of the intended pronunciations. Anyway, I have a German friend who keeps pronouncing Porsche as Pour-she...and I dont think he is getting it right.

Hahahahhah!...maybe thats why some them like soft sweet beer!

Toyota = tow your car
Porsche is totally wrong. Porsche ends with a schwa... like about. Porsch-eeh also can.

Volkswagen, again, is wrong. Haiya.

At around 0:25 you can hear it. Though I wouldn't say it that fast... (In this ad the 2 in the Citroen are making fun of the family dad as he is loading stuff into his MPV (MPVs have a bit of a bad reputation in Germany... only men who already have children (life has ended at that point...) drive them)). In any case, typically Germans would not say Volkswagen, they'd say VW. Fau-weeeh (e as in the English letter a, perhaps a bit lower... similar to Porsche). In Volkswagen there is no r.

Peugeot sounds wrong too... more like how an American would pronounce it. IMHO (from what little I remember of the French lessons) it'd be peuh (un peu...) schoo.


Audi is Latin btw. The founder of Horch (to listen in German) was bought out or kicked out of his company or something like that, so he founded a new company... and called it Audi (to listen in Latin). Smart.

Btw. I did comment here, twice. Weirdly enough the comments didn't appear...

In any case I don't think it is good to use the real pronunciation in a foreign country that generally uses a different pronunciation... it just makes people go "huh?".

This is why local carmakers should never name their cars with difficult to pronounce European words (difficult for some, at least)

When a customer walks into a Proton showroom and announces to the nearest SA "I mau tengok tu Proton Preef!" I died a little inside.

Died a little because my inside was laughing so hard. Tru story, when the car was newly launched

Sad part is, until today my sister still calls it Preef.

I love this thread!!