Comments on: Foreigners want you to buy a Honda

By: jonholmes

jonholmes — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:05:06 +0000

because native English speakers cost more than some other foreigner having a hard time make end meet as an “English teacher” or otherwise.

BTW, she aint even cute.

By: Haf

Haf — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:24:57 +0000

It’S not so awkward, and the accent is not so bad. I’Ve seen and heard much worse.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:31:41 +0000

Yeah of course Vonskippy. An experienced company like Honda has decided to spend a lot of money on manufacturing / advertising a new range of vehicles that nobody wants to buy.

Have you always been so stupid?

By: Vonskippy

Vonskippy — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:41:17 +0000

Why would Japanese people want a Mini Van? With a ever shrinking birthrate it’s not like they have a bus load of kids to haul around. You’d think the Mini Cooper would be a better sale.

By: Liv

Liv — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:10:30 +0000

I’m a foreigner and I approve this car commercial. Buy a car. I want you to.

By: Vagante

Vagante — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:35:43 +0000

“There’s no such thing as a “proper” English accent. If there was, all the Australians, Americans and Canadians, etc. would all be speaking it wrong.”

And if there were, others might be writing it wrongly.

By: feitclub

feitclub — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:02:16 +0000

It’s not the accent, it’s the delivery. That woman sounds like she has no idea what she’s saying.

By: RMilner

RMilner — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:13:54 +0000

But they are!

By: Nick in Nagoya

Nick in Nagoya — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:37:21 +0000

i dont really care, but she makes it sound like “newstream” rather than “new stream”

By: Nick in Nagoya

Nick in Nagoya — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:35:24 +0000

ok, a Native sounding english accent

By: Ryry

Ryry — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:10:28 +0000

There’s no such thing as a “proper” English accent. If there was, all the Australians, Americans and Canadians, etc. would all be speaking it wrong.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:38:39 +0000

It’s not garbled crap. It’s well-pronounced English with a European accent.

By: mitotourer

mitotourer — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:43:38 +0000

If there was even a .5% chance that Honda’s ad department could tell the difference between proper English and garbled crap, then maybe I would believe they intentionally hired Eastern Europeans to be their foreigners.

But they have no idea.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:11:44 +0000

Perhaps it was intentional.

Maybe they wanted to use models that looked European rather than American or British.

By: Nick in Nagoya

Nick in Nagoya — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:57:47 +0000

Why cant they ever use people who speak English with a proper accent.

By: jmadsen

jmadsen — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:23:11 +0000

DC,

that’s not awkward English, that’s what you get when you blend the two languages together into Japanese-English Marketing Speak.

To be awkward English, it has to be English in the first place.

By: DC

DC — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:06:16 +0000

Uhm, where’s the “awkward English” in that?

“And it’s EcoCar Genzei!” = “And it’s tax reduction!”

jmadsen, have you been in Japan so look you’re forgetting natural English? Let’s Engrish with me!

By: sixmats

sixmats — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:04:57 +0000

I want to buy a Honda!

By: [PT]Snake

[PT]Snake — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:38:09 +0000

looks like the chick from That 70′s Show

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:16:27 +0000

Odds are the blonde is a Russian model…they have flooded the market

By: jmadsen

jmadsen — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:04:56 +0000

“Wow! This is the new Stream”

“Looks cool!”

“And it’s EcoCar Genzei!”

Uhm, where’s the “awkward English” in that? They just have accents, is all, but RMilner was 100% correct. No one here really listens, anyway.

By: RMilner

RMilner — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:35:48 +0000

Awkward English doesn’t matter to the domestic market, any more than awkward French, or Yoruba, or Laotian.

The actors were probably chosen primarily on looks. Their accents sound a bit strange, I don’t think they are native English speakers.