FFXI Pronunciation (warning: advanced!)

[Aemora]

I always pronouce Kirin as Kee-lin, because Qilin is what kirin is based upon!

But my Salvage static group will always and forever laugh at the way I pronouce Humilus cell... Because to me its a hache-pee cell :D

[Cantih]

Suzaku's Sune-ate: sue-knee-a-tay (not soon-ate)

close, but if if it were spelled how you sound it, it's be Suni-ate.
correct is, sue-nay-a-tay

[Daemonic]

My einherjar group was debating how to say "Hazhalm Testing Grounds" we came out with calling it the House Of Ham Testing grounds (well a few of us did coughYuglcough). But really how do we say Hazhalm? Ha-zal-lm? :S

[Draylo]

I just say Hazlam >_> thats what it should be!! Also the guy form the intro movie says Bastoook, not bast-toe >_>

[Cantih]

I always say Haz-halm.
Like lolcats trying to say "have helm"

[Overburn]

I'm horrible at pronouncing stuff. I usually just make up my own pronunciation that doesn't even sound like how everyone on my Vent says it. For Pso'Xja, I end up pronouncing it Sow(like a female pig)-Jah.

[richardd]

I find that hearing people say "bew-dux" for Beadeaux makes me cringe a little.

Rich: my favorite dank word was "tang tang". And the fact that he could never say my name. And just called me "Urururururururu"

haha good times! i think we all jumped on the bandwagon on that one ;

i remember when you got your ace helm, for like 5 min all you hear is "grats ururururururrururururrururururu"

[Laude]

Lol, this thread reminds me of my friend Tang. He's cuban and has sort of an accent (not a heavy one mind you) but on Ventrilo he pronounces Anticans like "An-Tish-Ens", lol.

And Kray-ken club XD

[LordshadowRagnarok]

Places I can't be bothered to pronounce

Temple of Ugly Pie
Morphing-time Mountains
Fort Kangaroo
La Vowel
Inner/Outter Hotter Taru Ruins
Boston Omelet
Chateau Doorknob

[Talint]

close, but if if it were spelled how you sound it, it's be Suni-ate.
correct is, sue-nay-a-tay

You're right.

That's what I get for not actually speaking Japanese in about four years. :/

[Ferien]

Is "zh" really so difficult for some people to pronounce? I know it's not a native phoneme to English, but it's not really that hard...It's close enough to a soft g that it shouldn't be too hard.

As for the sea mobs...
Aern - airn
Euvhi - yoo-vee
Hpemde - hpem-day (voiced h before a hard p)
Phuabo - fwa-boh
Xzomit - zo-mit
Yovra - yo-vra (people pronounce this differently?)
Ghrah - gra
Zdei - zday

As for the words that have an obvious language to them, I always try to pronounce it in that language.

As for the OP...thun-DAH-ga, fie-RAH-ga, STONE-ga (which is wrong), SO-zha, uh (from Brooklyn, sue me)-RAH-pa-go

[Spider-Dan]

According to the japanese pronunciation guide on wiki, JP confirms the intro video: Bastok is really pronounced bass-TUKE.

バストゥーク
basutuuku

Is there some sort of Germanic precedence for -tok sounding like "tuke"? As an earlier poster said, many of the Bastok areas seem to have a German flavor.

[Priran]

theres no "U"s in Thundaga

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/8730/gendo4.jpg

[Cantih]

Euvhi - yoo-vee
Xzomit - zo-mit
Yovra - yo-vra (people pronounce this differently?)

I say Yovra: Yaw-vra
Euvhi: Eh-ou-vee (that's not right though. It's two syllables, but Ehou could be read wrong, so i had to put a - there)
Xzomit: ek-zo-mit (I dont do this with Xarcabard however, that's ZAR-ka-bard)

The others though, I say the same way you do.

[LordshadowRagnarok]

Euvhi - U V

[Ashira]

I cry whenever anyone on Vent pronounces pretty much anything.

[akoru]

Chateau d'Oraguille - Shah-toe Doh-rah-Gee (the g as in gold)
La Vaule - Lah Vole

[liquinas]

It's Fee-rah-gah

[Aihree]

Temple of Ugly Leopards. (even though toramas/coeurls are actually one of the most beautiful mobs in all of final fantasy IMO)

[Fogo]

"zh" sound is just like "sh" only with a z instead of s, so it's harder (like the g which was mentioned above). Very normal phonetic in the middle east.

"ieux" from Bostaunieux is like "yew" minus the w, so it's going to be boh-stow-new. And Beadeaux is beh-doh.

since many languages pronounce "x" as an "sh" sound, and many others pronounce "j" as a "y" sound, i always just pronounced Pso-xja as so-shya myself <shrug>.

The one i always have a hard time wrapping my head around is einherjar. I know it's pronounced ain-her-yar, but for some reason my mental voice always pronounces that j as hard lol.