twicelights 2019 i was in the floor section surrounded by mostly other adult males and we had an impromptu meeting on how to pronounce names and we all confessed we'd never said the members names outloud until this moment and had a good laugh. some younger female fans nearby were kind enough to help us out. i was dating a mainland chinese girl at the time who'd taught me how to say hello and order some food in mandarin so i thought i knew how to say tzuyu's name; "tzoo-yoo" obviously duhhhh /s and i thought people were playing around with me when they said its "chewy"
I appreciate that even though her name is so hard to pronounce that even Dahyun can barely do it right, they didn't give her some generic stage name to appease certain people. I wish stuff like that happened more often. I'm willing to learn how to pronounce someone's name cause it's HER FREAKING NAME
Hi! I’m a Chines tutor!! Her name is spelled Zhou Ziyu in pinyin (knowing this might help with the pronunciation). The “zh” sound in mandarin is pronounced like “j” and “ou” is similar to “oh”, so Zhou -> “Joh”. The “i” in Zi is an unvoiced vowel. This means that instead of saying “zee”, simply pronounce it as “zzz” (like a buzzing bee sound). So Zi -> “zz”. Finally, there’s Yu, which is the hardest. The “y” sound is the same as you would usually pronounce it in English! However, the “u” sound is actually “ü”. To pronounce this, say “eeee” then round /purse your lips into an “o” shape. When you do this, your lips should be the only part of your mouth that moves. Don’t move your teeth, tongue, or jaw!!! So Yu -> “Yü”. To put that all together, Zhou Ziyu is pronounced like “Joh Zz-yü”!!
@@selohcin I think I’m going to start tutoring again over the summer! Little too busy at my current job to do so 😭 Pronunciation was my favorite thing to teach. Thank you!
As a swedish person, most of the "hard sounds" in her name already exist in my language so it's just piecing together the sounds into one word for me lol
In German there are always sounds really similar (Tsch & ü - ü being pronounced "deeper" than you'd usually), funnily enough people with deep voice saying "Tschüss" which means bye in a deeper voice almost sound as if they're saying her name
Right! I was thinking the exact same thing. The "yu" part really just sounds like a Swedish U or Y haha. I always thought "chewy" was the right pronunciation cause I never heard her say her own name.
Brazilian here and we have the one of the hardest syllables in the word: "-ão". I fell so blessed to be brazilian since we have such a rich language. I learn new languages so easily, thanks to that 😂
I'm a spanish native speaker, and yes it's hard for me to pronounce Tzuyu's name. So, I say something that sounds like Chzu-i in spanish or Chzoo-ee in english, like Zooey Deschanel with a ch sound at the begining. By the way, Dahyun's lips are so beautiful 😍.
I find it fascinating that every language uses different muscles in the mouth to speak, so it's not always that its difficult to pronounce but more that you aren't used to using certain muscles in the mouth.
im a native russian speaker and I don't really understand why this sound might be hard for koreans, because we share almost all of the vowels, including the "eu" sound along with "i" and some diphthongs (just basic "yu", "yo", "ya") and it's quite easy to pronounce once you combine the eu and ee but also we cyrillize Tzuyu's name as "Ch'zhou Tzeuyuy" (Чжоу Тзыюй).....
well all languages vary in the number of phonemes, that's like saying I don't understand why koreans can't pronounce the "rr" like hispanics do, simple their language doesn't have that phoneme, korean has 28 phonemes while russian has 42 phonemes (according to the internet) so that would explain it lol
@@chuusupremacy I see your point and agree, but that's a bit different, since longer rolling "r"s simply don't exist in korean and many other asian languages. in the case of this vid, Dahyun tries a brand new phoneme (the "yú"), I was a bit puzzled abt it since the phonemes koreans might combine to create this sound are 99% identical to ones in my language, down to being described in textbooks simply as "the same as __"
They usually use a koreanized pronunciation for Tzuyu’s name (Chewie) because the original pronunciation would be pretty much impossible for non mandarin speakers in everyday conversations. I’m guessing this was also the company’s idea, to make Tzuyu more marketable to a korean and international audience
I wonder if it's because she's been calling Tzuyu by "Chewy" for the longest time because Kim is pretty good attempting other languages. Her pronunciation isn't bad.
Japanese is the easiest to pronounce. Everything is light and not many changes. Korean is next. Mandarin / Cantonese is nearly impossible. Theoretically, I understand what tonal means. In reality, it’s impossible. Side note: impossible to memorize all the Japanese characters and Chinese ones (unless full time studying). Korean is the easiest language to be fluent and read / write. Korean was intentionally designed for the common person.
No worries u probably got it right bc she never said actually "Dahyun" in this clip, she only introduced herself in Chinese with the Chinese version of her name which is Jin Duoxian
Her name should've been written as "joh joo-ee" or "chou juie" something like that which is similar to her name pronunciation bcz then people would say "cho-tzu-you"
Honestly, I've always said it like "Soo-ee" which I'm sure is wildly wrong. It is a really difficult name to pronounce, at least for me as a native English speaker. In my mind, the "yu" part sounds kind of like "wuU" or "Uuw"
It's interesting that it's hard for Koreans to pronounce, since we have all of these sounds in English already (at least British English) so I found it confusing at first that people couldn't say her name
I feel like everyone who started stanning Twice or discovering them had to have messed up pronouncing Tzuyu’s name at least ones. I remember when I started stanning them I looked up a video on how to pronounce her name because I was struggling. 😂
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Dahyun pronounces Tzuyu :👁 ⭕️ 👁
I can't stop laughing it's too accurate😭✋🏻
Dahyun turns into an octopus whenever she pronounces Tzuyu's name. Look at those lips!
Dghshajajjajaj 😭
Wtfff 😭😭💀
😭😭😂😂😂
Tzuyu is very patient with people.
But not her unnie 😂
True
she is an angel
She really is very sweet and seemingly getting sweeter with age too, which is rare.
I get very calm vibes from her she seems like a nice person
Dahyun’s face everytime she tries to say Tzuyu’s name 😂
When first stanning Twice I always say "Tzuyu" but I got confuse why the members say chewy instead 🤣🤣🤣
twicelights 2019 i was in the floor section surrounded by mostly other adult males and we had an impromptu meeting on how to pronounce names and we all confessed we'd never said the members names outloud until this moment and had a good laugh. some younger female fans nearby were kind enough to help us out. i was dating a mainland chinese girl at the time who'd taught me how to say hello and order some food in mandarin so i thought i knew how to say tzuyu's name; "tzoo-yoo" obviously duhhhh /s and i thought people were playing around with me when they said its "chewy"
@@A123-d8o lol 😂
Omg same
I used to pronounce "tuh-zoo-yoo" LOL
I Said “to-you “until I found out it was “chu-wie”I learnt that cuz the members always said
I appreciate that even though her name is so hard to pronounce that even Dahyun can barely do it right, they didn't give her some generic stage name to appease certain people. I wish stuff like that happened more often. I'm willing to learn how to pronounce someone's name cause it's HER FREAKING NAME
Hi! I’m a Chines tutor!! Her name is spelled Zhou Ziyu in pinyin (knowing this might help with the pronunciation). The “zh” sound in mandarin is pronounced like “j” and “ou” is similar to “oh”, so Zhou -> “Joh”. The “i” in Zi is an unvoiced vowel. This means that instead of saying “zee”, simply pronounce it as “zzz” (like a buzzing bee sound). So Zi -> “zz”. Finally, there’s Yu, which is the hardest. The “y” sound is the same as you would usually pronounce it in English! However, the “u” sound is actually “ü”. To pronounce this, say “eeee” then round /purse your lips into an “o” shape. When you do this, your lips should be the only part of your mouth that moves. Don’t move your teeth, tongue, or jaw!!! So Yu -> “Yü”. To put that all together, Zhou Ziyu is pronounced like “Joh Zz-yü”!!
Wow, you explained that incredibly well. I would totally pay you to teach me Chinese!
isn't zh pronounced as T?
@@sorch5280 No, "zh" is pronounced as a J in pinyin.
@@sorch5280 Nope! It’s a “j” sound!
@@selohcin I think I’m going to start tutoring again over the summer! Little too busy at my current job to do so 😭 Pronunciation was my favorite thing to teach. Thank you!
Tzuyu developed a method to teach people how to pronounce her name properly as she feels like she needs to do it 😂
As a swedish person, most of the "hard sounds" in her name already exist in my language so it's just piecing together the sounds into one word for me lol
In German there are always sounds really similar (Tsch & ü - ü being pronounced "deeper" than you'd usually), funnily enough people with deep voice saying "Tschüss" which means bye in a deeper voice almost sound as if they're saying her name
Right! I was thinking the exact same thing. The "yu" part really just sounds like a Swedish U or Y haha. I always thought "chewy" was the right pronunciation cause I never heard her say her own name.
in french as well since my lang french vowels are so diverse, and specially our u sound is almost identical as ''yu'' of Tzuyu.
Brazilian here and we have the one of the hardest syllables in the word: "-ão". I fell so blessed to be brazilian since we have such a rich language. I learn new languages so easily, thanks to that 😂
Lmao dahyun's face 😂 theyre so funny toegther
After learning Chinese for 1 semester, i finally can pronounce Tzuyu's name exactly yayyy 😘
Congratulations 👏
The first time Dahyun tried, Tzuyu was like
"...no that's n...again"😂
So patient
I'm a spanish native speaker, and yes it's hard for me to pronounce Tzuyu's name. So, I say something that sounds like Chzu-i in spanish or Chzoo-ee in english, like Zooey Deschanel with a ch sound at the begining. By the way, Dahyun's lips are so beautiful 😍.
The simplest one is chewy 😁
As a spanish speaker I pronounce it as "Chuy" hahaha.
I think the easier way to pronounce it is to say “yew” in way you pronounce dew in mountain dew
As a Portuguese speaker I pronounced her name like "Chizuyu"🤣🤣🤣
Me too 😂 "Choo-You" could work?
being french, the U is very easy. It's a very common letter.
frr
thats what i thought, i was confused as to why ppl found it so hard to pronounce and thought i was doing it wrong
Same in Dutch. The way Tzuyu pronounce U is exactly the same as in Dutch.
When Tzuyu said: “Ü“
I felt that.
Even half a Tzuyu face melts my heart
For non-native mandarin speaker it is difficult to pronounce her name right 😄 But it is worth the effort to try!
I’m my opinion they are the funniest members in twice so seeing them together idk why I’m already dying
I'm Chinese and I was so confused when everyone was saying "chuu-ee" lmao
German and French have the ü /y/ sound like that but it doesn't exist in Korean, Japanese, English, Spanish etc. :c lol
can you please type tzuyu's name phonetically for us westerners
@@A123-d8o choates suhyew
@@A123-d8o joh tzz ü
Yes. I think JYP just invented that pronunciation so it would be easier for fans to pronounce.
I find it fascinating that every language uses different muscles in the mouth to speak, so it's not always that its difficult to pronounce but more that you aren't used to using certain muscles in the mouth.
No one:
Dahyun: Chou Tzu... Yu... 😗
In French we have this /u/ sound so it’s quite easy for us to say her Chinese name correctly
im a native russian speaker and I don't really understand why this sound might be hard for koreans, because we share almost all of the vowels, including the "eu" sound along with "i" and some diphthongs (just basic "yu", "yo", "ya") and it's quite easy to pronounce once you combine the eu and ee
but also we cyrillize Tzuyu's name as "Ch'zhou Tzeuyuy" (Чжоу Тзыюй).....
well all languages vary in the number of phonemes, that's like saying I don't understand why koreans can't pronounce the "rr" like hispanics do, simple their language doesn't have that phoneme, korean has 28 phonemes while russian has 42 phonemes (according to the internet) so that would explain it lol
@@chuusupremacy I see your point and agree, but that's a bit different, since longer rolling "r"s simply don't exist in korean and many other asian languages. in the case of this vid, Dahyun tries a brand new phoneme (the "yú"), I was a bit puzzled abt it since the phonemes koreans might combine to create this sound are 99% identical to ones in my language, down to being described in textbooks simply as "the same as __"
@@1r3n3 I see, that's really interesting, I didn't know that
@@chuusupremacy rolling r's are natural for Koreans (and East Asians). It's the l's that they have a hard time pronouncing
I think we all thought it was “t-zoo-yoo” instead of “choo-ee”.
Dahyun is a cutie . . . . great charm
Zhou ZiYu, the subtitles aint making it easier on us
Imagine your a Tzuyu, in the middle of no where, Dahyun calls out “Hey! Cho tz 🧿🕳🧿”
Wait! How does dahyun not know how to pronounced tzuyu after 7 years?
They usually use a koreanized pronunciation for Tzuyu’s name (Chewie) because the original pronunciation would be pretty much impossible for non mandarin speakers in everyday conversations. I’m guessing this was also the company’s idea, to make Tzuyu more marketable to a korean and international audience
@@bitww9734 Oh, I didn't know that was a koreanized pronunciation.
Looks like an old video.
@@ozmer the chinese idol always have koreanized name. like chenle from nct pronounced as chonlo, renjun pronounced as lonjin
@@ahmadrifaldi4591 Umm Chenle and Renjun are easy to pronounce
Can't focus on the language lesson because of visual overload. They are so pretty.
Dahyun be like: O3O
0:03
Tzuyu's literally doing the cold face emoji
I have the same Taiwanese name as her you pronounce it like this: Zi yu
Glad that German and Turkish have the letter Ü with two slightly different pronounciations tho
Tzu..😬yu..😲 ... Tzuyu.. 😬😲
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dahyun calling Tzuyu’s name : 🐙
Zhou Ziyu. That makes so much more sense now!
I can see why they call her Chewy instead 😂
Dua duana geulis
It's funny that Chewie is actually Yoda.
Yu = Ü. Got it.
I wonder if it's because she's been calling Tzuyu by "Chewy" for the longest time because Kim is pretty good attempting other languages. Her pronunciation isn't bad.
Japanese is the easiest to pronounce. Everything is light and not many changes.
Korean is next. Mandarin / Cantonese is nearly impossible. Theoretically, I understand what tonal means. In reality, it’s impossible.
Side note: impossible to memorize all the Japanese characters and Chinese ones (unless full time studying). Korean is the easiest language to be fluent and read / write.
Korean was intentionally designed for the common person.
We have it in Turkish too. Ü. My wife is korean and speaks Turkish but she cannot pronounce 'Ü'
Dahyun: Jo To You
I thought it was pronounced “chewy” 😂
I think the Korean way it is
Dahyun é a mais paciente em ajudar as membros estrangeiras
Mas é a tzuyu que tá ajudando ela a pronunciar "Tzuyu" kkkkkkk
@@Brooke-50-12 mas quando as estrangeiras tem problemas ou dúvidas nas palavras ou na pronuncia ela ajuda as outras ajudam mas ficam rindo
Dang, the u is legit the same as french (Quebec french at least)
Dahyun's beak is the best lola
My ex-gf’s name was Yu so I got very good saying. I can say Tzuyu’s name properly.
Dahyun said her own name and I was taken aback. I guess I’ve been pronouncing that wrong too 😖😅
No worries u probably got it right bc she never said actually "Dahyun" in this clip, she only introduced herself in Chinese with the Chinese version of her name which is Jin Duoxian
@@amanichowdhury7249 ok thank you! I was confused 😂
Why am I watching this and contorting my own mouth whenever they are saying "Chou TzuYu"
0:53 Dahyun's face LMAO🤣
It's so funny
She's so cute
idk why but this is my fav twice's vlive😀
Dahyun still didn't learned how to pronounce Tzuyu? 😆
i thought her name was pronounced "chewy" this whole time 😭
chewy is the korean pronunciation
Me being Taiwanese and still not being able to pronounce it right-
edit: I know how to say it now 😃
Guys it’s basically Ds-u-ie but the ie sound isn’t as prominent.
That’s why they pronounce it like dsuie or chewy cause the ie sound is easy to say.
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Thats how i used to pronounce her name and most people said it was pronounced as chewy
I always pronounced it like she does here but always see Stans call her Chewy so I got confused 😂
Je suis française et c'est compliqué à dire sont prénom à Tzuyu du coup je dis Yoda 😂😂
c'est le même son U qu'en français phonétiquement TCHO TSU YU
& yet I still have no idea how to properly pronounce it! 😂
As someone who is currently learning mandarin that "Ü" sound is a nightmare to pronounce.
except for the French ! same sound "u"
@@genzalarboa3110 cause french is too one of the hardest languages to pronounce lol
Haha!When I became a Once
I used to think that her name was pronounced like starting with a"T"🤣
I was pronounceing it "Djo-ui" and "Djoyo" for 4 years 💔
tzuyu i can relate lol 😂
Wow not twice members having us call her chewie all this time 😅😂
chewie is the korean pronunciation
I just call her CHEWIE
as a brazilian i used to call her "ti-zoo-yoo"
And theres mei doing che chewiiiii hahaha 🤣😂
Aww so 😍 cute
I always pronounce her name as “T-zoo-you” lmao it’s so hard to remember it the correct way😭
Her name should've been written as "joh joo-ee" or "chou juie" something like that which is similar to her name pronunciation bcz then people would say "cho-tzu-you"
Now im even more confused
People always tell me your supposed to say Chewy or something like that
Say "you", but never pronounce the "ooo" sound at the end. That's how you pronounce ü
Not me pronouncing CHO CHU GI
I thought at first her name was pronounced
Tzu yu lol
Chuwi 😃👍
Honestly, I've always said it like "Soo-ee" which I'm sure is wildly wrong. It is a really difficult name to pronounce, at least for me as a native English speaker. In my mind, the "yu" part sounds kind of like "wuU" or "Uuw"
Tzu-ü
Yeap my name has Yu in it as well and people of other races can't pronounce it. This is me throughout my school life lol.
Chou Tzuyu
Zhou joo-wee
My two faves lmao
It's interesting that it's hard for Koreans to pronounce, since we have all of these sounds in English already (at least British English) so I found it confusing at first that people couldn't say her name
Is tzuyu perfect
needa marry tzuyu
I just say chewy 😂
W is silent in mandarin/pinyin, "Wu" is pronounce "u" with the very faint W sound in the end
This is my favourite letter Ü
Le me:taizu 👽
I feel like everyone who started stanning Twice or discovering them had to have messed up pronouncing Tzuyu’s name at least ones. I remember when I started stanning them I looked up a video on how to pronounce her name because I was struggling. 😂
Same
They are so funny
las amo
I'm Brazilian and I speak:tchuzui
I still can't
Joo wee 👌
Why does Yu sound like 鱼(fish) 😂
It's easy for me because i speak chinese🤣🤣🤣
Basically it’s dz-ü