Simple but Valid question

[Aileen Backenswallow]

How do you say "Yaoi"? My friend and I say it like "Yow-ee" and I know another person that says like like, "Yo-la" but he's illiterate. neutral

What's the official pronounciation?  

[RaddPixieSticQueen]

From what I understand it is pronounced: "Ya-OH-ee"

Most people say "yow-ee" I think.  

[lollipop-love]

well...we say ya-oh-ee in our family.thats how its pronounced.

 

[[.K.a.g.a.r.i. - xox.]]

いでもいつまでも　私を照らしてい て　大きな愛でずっと

Hahahaha. xDD
I usually just call it... Ya-o-i.
But maybe there's more then one way too say it?
Probably not though... xD

^ω^

You are my shining star ☆忘れないから☆

 

[Mr. Jiggles]

XD I don't know how you pronounce but I do know I pronounce it as Yah-oh. I've been saying it that way for years.  

[kitten]

Well it's made up of three different sounds from the Japanese alphabet, so you should make sure you're making something like three syllables when you say it.

Ya is basically yah. You hear it in English when people say "Ya know what I mean?"
O is basically oh. No explaination needed.
I is basically ee. In Japanese the e letter makes an eh sound and the i makes an ee sound, which usually throws people off. You can hear the i sound in english like in the word key.  

[Koreik Taegru]

Nanako_Tomoi

well...we say ya-oh-ee in our family.thats how its pronounced.

thats the same with my family  

[Koreik Taegru]

or maybe its yuh and then oi. like when you stub your toe, "oi damnit!" i dunno lolz xd  

[Koreik Taegru]

*pokes thread* oh no....*kicks thread* crying i killed another one! crying crying crying -runs out of thread crying-  

[The Saddened Watchman]

I always thought it was ya-oi, but my friend said otherwise, so I decided to check wikipedia and they say it's pronounced "ya-oh-ee", like most others said. I still pronounce it ya-oi on occasion though. sweatdrop  

[Skizzors]

It's "ya-oh-ee" but it's usually pronounced so fast, it sounds like "yow-ee" so people have started actually saying "yow-ee"..  

[C h i p p y]

((--Alice-Kun--))

XD I don't know how you pronounce but I do know I pronounce it as Yah-oh. I've been saying it that way for years.

Same here. But than again I suck at trying to pernounce things and as far as I can see, I am supposed to say it Ya-oh-ee.... but that ee at the end does not roll off the tounge and makes it weird to say so I stick with Yah-oh

 

[Kitsune-chi]

Ya-oh-ee for me. But I usually don't say it. ninja  

[Lucca Ashtear]

I try to say 'ya-o-i' as three syllables but I once mispronounced it as 'Yahweh' with hilarious results xd  

[Ashira_Aria]

I pronounce it yah-oi