OK, this is a stupid question, how the heck to do pronounce this? I know its the Japanese version of the Scion, but I am just scratching my head as to how to say it...

In English, it's pronounced "East." Also, mooooved to the xA forum!

Same as how you pronounce scient-'ist' or m-'ist'.

With a Japanese dialect, the 'I' sounds more like an 'E'

I've heard it pronounced "eestoo"; the Japanese don't like having hard consanants at the end of words, thus the "ooo" sound...

The Japanese form of the word "イスト" (i-su-to) is pronounced as "Easto" (the "u" is dropped).

This concludeds my knowledge of Japanese :rofl:

i thought it was I-s-t oooops

so how is it pronounced east or easto?

i'm gonna still call it I-s-t

When I was looking at bB's in Okinawa, I asked about the IST and the salesman pronounced it as "east-o" Japanese don't end syllables on a consonant, always has a vowel at the end, so you have a soft pronounced "o" after IST.

And the bB is pronounced "babbo." Now.......don't all you people with "babbo" badges feel sheepish?

KiL

yeah... i still call it the I - S - T.. hehe.. east just sounds funny to me.. the "toyota 'east'" hehe the toyota 'I S T' sounds nicer.. hehe but thats just me :nails:

yeah... i still call it the I - S - T.. hehe.. east just sounds funny to me.. the "toyota 'east'" hehe the toyota 'I S T' sounds nicer.. hehe but thats just me :nails:

In English, it's pronounced "East." Also, mooooved to the xA forum!

haha I was originally going to put it in the xa forum but instead put it in the other section..guess I should have gone with my first choice

i thought it was I-s-t oooops

Same here

"eesto" sounds nice. When I first saw Ist, i thought it was 1st so called it first, then I realized it was an I... saying "ist" just sounds weird. Now I can get the Ist badge and say it right!!!

Thanks everyone! :bow:

i remember reading about it.. the bb stood for black box.. because all the limo's in japan we're xb's and they were black for a bit.. and the ist was suppose to be 1st (first) having the 'i' be symbolic for a one.. but yeh.. alot of people call it different things.. who cares.. i love my xa :bow:

i thought it was "eye-st"

like previously stated, japanese dialect always ends in a rolling o. its kinda like spanish when you roll l's and r's. it just happens. very subtle, and eay to grasp. while i was over there, it becomes very common for you to adapt the dialect into your everyday speech. instead of spanglish, i call it "janglish." hehe. thats why you see most japanese advertisements with english spelling having a word or phrase end in "o" or "a" like "modellista" or "dorifto."
X-eric-X

like previously stated, japanese dialect always ends in a rolling o. its kinda like spanish when you roll l's and r's. it just happens. very subtle, and eay to grasp. while i was over there, it becomes very common for you to adapt the dialect into your everyday speech. instead of spanglish, i call it "janglish." hehe. thats why you see most japanese advertisements with english spelling having a word or phrase end in "o" or "a" like "modellista" or "dorifto."
X-eric-X

It looks strange, but when it comes from Japanese, Janglish is fine. I just hate it when English tries to do it themselves. Case in point, the movie, "RINGU". Dumb. We all know the movie is called, "The Ring" Japanese have to end with a vowel sound, and when you listen to them say the name of the movie, it sounds like RING because they don't put a lot of pronunciation umph into that U after the G. When I hear the commercial where it says, "From the producer of rin-GUUUU..." I cringe... It's almost like trying to imitate Janglish and falling flat on your face because you can't even pronounce it right.

Japanese isn't a harsh language, they pronunciate, but they don't overdo it. It's a subtle speaking language IMO. When I first moved to Japan, I had a hell of a time trying to adapt to the language because the speaking was so fluid. I took courses in college and the teacher would pronunciate strongly so you could hear each word's structure, so if she would say, RING, she would spell it out phonetically. RI-N-GU.
It's a fun language though, and a bad ___ place to live. I hope to go back again soon for another 8 years.