I feel compelled to correct some of the wrong pronunciations here. I can assure you Xiaomi is NOT meant to be pronounced as “Show me” or “Shiow me” or anything in such variances. The first time a colleague told me he bought a Xiaomi product, he said it in such a way that it sounded like “show me” or “shiow me”, and I was completely clueless to what he was on about. I had to laugh when it finally dawn on me that he meant Xiao Mi.
Xiaomi is literally two words in Chinese. Xiao-Mi (小米) meaning small rice.
The easiest way to show you the correct pronunciation is using Google Translate. I have typed the words in. If you click the link below, you can just click on the speaker icon/symbol, and you will hear the correct pronunciation.
A while back, there was a commercial for a Shen Yun dance-thingy (live performances, I imagine?), and the guy at the end pronounced it something like “shen yün”, with a weird pursed-lips “yuuuuen” at the end, sort of like the ‘ü’ in Müller.
Ha, found it… I think.
Eh, what can I say. I still wish French people a “joyooks noel”…
Lumintop Prince Brass Upd. Gold @$24.99 seems like a good offer, I bought it. Thanks. :+1:
Can you get a coupon for UT01 @ $9.99? (for GR of course)
I’ve got one since the days of Giorgos review, I’m very satisfied and I’d like to buy a couple more at that price.
I can speak Mandarin fluently, and I can tell you the Hugo guy in the video pronounced it wrong. Not knowing who this Hugo guy is, it seems he is the wrong guy to be providing expertise in this subject??
I find it ironic that he is right that it is important to get the tones right (this is right in nearly all languages??), then he goes to pronounce the two words wrong?
Bought a 4-pack of Samsung 30Qs. Shipping was extra, but I guess that’s expected with Lithium-ion batteries these days. Thank you very much for the deal!