Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "Asagi's Life (No BS Japan)" channel.

  1. It sounds like we in Australia get it mostly right, but it is hard for us to master the Japanese staccato - constant syllable length way of pronounciation. A leap forward occurred about 35 years ago when Toshiba Head Office sent a new manager to take over their Australian branch. On discovering we mangled the pronouncing of "Toshiba", he initiated a saturation TV advertising campaign: "Not tosh-ee-bah, tosh-ib-a". It was a complete surprise to us Aussies and all who were alive then remember it, though the once major Toshiba electrical & electronics brand has dissappeared from the market. Asagi's talking about Datsun reminds me of an old joke that probably only Australians can understand: One time there was a shortage of Nissan transmissions in Australia, and people were getting fed up not being able to drive their cars. A quick thinking businessman went to Japan and bought up a large quantity of second hand Nissan transmissions. Being a bit dodgy he chartered an old Douglas DC3 aeroplane to fly them back to Australia. Passing over Vietnam, the old plane developed trouble in one engine, and the pilot ordered the crew to jetison cargo so that he could maintain altitude. Down below, the peasants looked up and exclaimed "Ahh! It raining dats-un cogs!"
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