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Miss Universe Japan 2009 Emiri Miyasaka answers some questions in English:

Rate her English:

And here’s a clip of her on stage in a swimsuit and a evening gown:

Rate her swimsuit / evening gown:

[hat tip to Brian in Jeollanam-do and 3Yen News]

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39 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - August 19, 2009 at 12:05 pm

Categories: Celebrity News, Japanese Girls Tags: 2009, Emily Miyasaka, Emiri, miss universe, Miss Universe Japan

http://www.chirimotsumoreba.net Jordan

Oh. My. God. LOL

Funniest shit ever.
oro_the_dog

What kind of accent is that? Sounds like she had something stuck to the roof of her mouth.

Mike

Like a dog with peanut butter, but at least she’s giving it a try…she’s hot though, so in the end, who really cares?

klimmer

She’s really hot but it’s not the accent, it’s her mannerism and behaviour that comes across as unnatural. Reminds me of women in Roppongi trying to land themselves a rich, middle aged white man.

http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com Brian

She’s hot.

It’s kind of crass to sit here and critique English ability of people who aren’t being tested on it . . . but I did it anyway, and Miss Brazil is awful.
The Overthinker

Were these questions prepared for in advance? That makes a huge difference. She sounds extremely well rehearsed. Even though she is so tanned I thought she was Miss Indonesia….

http://www.chirimotsumoreba.net Jordan

I thought she was Miss Yamanba.

weirdo

What the hell? she doesn’t even look Japanese.

Yom

totally

she represents japan about as much as I, a big fat white guy, does

himawari

LOL
http://npc.talkingincircles.net/ NPC

*not sure if serious*
Debiru

According to your description you represent USA.

madne0

I agree. She doesn’t look Japanese at all.

As for her English…well, it’s better then my Japanese, but that’s not saying much.

http://www.hormel.com Vonskippy

I can’t believe they still run these dorky pageants.
Lance Corporal Tennyson

Come on guys, she’s not hot at all. She has one of those wide countryside faces you can find all over Japan. She’ll be an absolute dog when she’s older. Mark my words.
fg

It’s really laughable. She doesn’t represent Japan, she represents a private company with special interests. Like the filthy “national” costume she wore, she was produced in and out to suit the TASTES of certain people. Have you seen the lap dancing audition clips on youtube? Ines Ligron says it’s to break in and train these Japanese girls. Reminds me of some old hag whore house proprietor from old movies.
Craig

Damn, that English is pretty terrible
riChchestMat

The issue isn’t her English ability but what she uses it for. She’s so painfully thin she left no space for a brain or personality. I do want to eat cheesecake though.

Speaking of English accents: http://richchestmat.tumblr.com/post/166116680/want-to-sound-british-heres-how
http://www.mutantfrog.com/ Adamu

Watching her try and speak English was painful. Klimmer has it right – it’s possible to understand what she is saying, but her mannerisms and facial expressions are very unnatural. It shows she is reciting it verbatim and might not actually understand what she’s saying.

Seems kind of unfair to make them all speak English to win. If it’s Miss Universe shouldn’t they compete to see whose native language sounds sexiest? Or would that unfairly give France an edge?

Ryry

Make them all speak pig-latin.
The Overthinker

Miss Germany would complain. It’s not her fault their language sounds like a concrete mixer gargling. But Miss Canton would come last.

http://www.zdwonline.de Haf

For once, just for once I’d like to get the sensation what German really sounds like to foreigners. By watching Drew Carey speaking pig latin I got a small impression, but it’s not enough…

On topic: To me it seems quite likely that she just rehearsed her answers and didn’t even understand what she said. It really sounds like she’s just copying some phonetics.

http://www.chirimotsumoreba.net Jordan

That’s a fair point. Why are they being asked to speak only in English when it’s a Miss Universe competition?

pixel_bomber

Yea I have no idea where she learned English but I have never heard an accent like that. Kind of a W sound coming through on her R’s or something. Definitely didn’t sound like she was comfortable speaking English.

But on the other hand I do love her cheesecake.
Sandy

Oh man, what a joker. Turned into sushi? I was on the floor!
nanya

She is reading that off of a cue card.

I mean, it’s possible have pronunciation and grammar that bad and still have a proficiency level high enough to know and use the words ‘transport’ and ‘transform’ freely in conversation… but it is not really probable.

I’d still bang her til she goes dyslexic though… dont get me wrong
Trotski

To be honest, for an Asian her English is fantastic. I’ve heard Japanese, Chinese and Korean interpreters who, because of their profession, are fluent in English that have MUCH worse accents than hers.

I have to agree with the other posters though, it is obvious that she has rehearsed her answers. I didn’t watch this particular pageant, but I can only guess that she was probably much better than 90% of the other contestants.

Jenn

I agree, I think her English and accent are pretty darn good. She’s kind of at a weird stage though, where her accent is halfway between terrible and natural, and it actually sounds like she has a speech impediment rather than an accent! It it really strange!
http://www.chirimotsumoreba.net Jordan

You obviously haven’t spoken to enough Asian speakers of English if you think her English is fantastic.

Obtuse

I’ve heard deaf people speak better…
HamachiMan

She looks fantastic, much better than Riyo Mori IMO. Emiri’s no Kurara, no one ever will be, but she’s close. And for those who say she doesn’t “look Japanese,” say what? Last year’s Miss Japan is someone that doesn’t really look Japanese, she looked more southeast asian.

Go Emiri, prove the jealous haters here wrong!
LB

I found her English teacher: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXtLntrqyxk
http://whatjapanthinks.com Ken Y-N

Uggh, anorexic arms.
Tim

My wife is way hotter…
This girl is plain dumb… Go back to roppongi hills!

James

well dont you sound like a shallow bastard. Stay in Japan with your “hot” wife cause we all know that in your own country you couldn’t get shit. You guys act like you own Japanese women or something. But then again wherever your people go, you act as if you own everyone.

HamachiMan

O.K. not sure why my comment was flagged as it had nothing spammy or offensive to it. But Emiri very much looks like a beautiful Japanese woman. And all of you jealous and critical people would be lucky in real life to have someone half as beautiful as Emiri give you the time of day.

Good luck to Emiri as she is clearly one of the best in the Miss Universe field.
Cory

Intead of “Rate Her English” it should be something like, “Rate Her Ability to Recite English”, since it’s obvious she’s repeating from a memorized script. It’s quite telling at the end when she clearly forgets what she was supposed to say and looks up and to the right in order to either try and recall her line through a visual memory or creatively come up with something on her own. So if we were to rate her English, that last line would be all we have to go on.
properbitch

I hate her make-up, how she can win? I saw a lot of nicest japanese females on the internet.
ljfox27

Her English is WAY NOT GOOD.. But you can’t really blame her to it because we all know that Nihongo language is VERY DIFFERENT in all aspect to the english language, the Japanese language doesn’t even have the letter ‘R’ originally plus when it comes to grammar it’s understandable that she’ll really have a hard time.. I mean the English construction of a simple sentence follows the ‘subject-verb-object’ pattern but the in Japanese its ‘subject-object-verb’..

In addition, Japanese people are VERY NATIONALISTIC, and they love their native language so much that they don’t pay much attention to the usage of other foreign language like english.. Most schools in Japan teach only very basic english..

Her inefficient english doesn’t mean she’s dumb though, after all, most people who speak english as their native tongue can’t also speak proper japanese.. A proof to that is the fact that when Japanese shows especially anime are shown in western countries, many sentences and words are often mistranslated…

okay now I’ve posted a really long comment.. Sorry guys, I just wanted to somehow explain the side of the miss Japan here, I didn’t mean to cause a bother..

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