I have lived in northern Japan for 20 years. I speak Japanese and English fluently. I am qualified to answer your question.
Kinki it means sexually deviant in English.
Wako it can sound like whacko, or crazy
Most katakana words sound really dumb to English speakers, such as FURAIDO POTETO it sounds kind of like English, but why do Japanese people put O on the end of everything. RISUTO, CHIKETTO,
FAITO is a katakana word that means ganbaru in Japan, but it means KENKASURU in English, so the usage is bizarre.
DONATSU... there has never been a TSU in the word donut. Who made that up? Why not Donatto or something like that.
Wako it can sound like whacko, or crazy
Most katakana words sound really dumb to English speakers, such as FURAIDO POTETO it sounds kind of like English, but why do Japanese people put O on the end of everything. RISUTO, CHIKETTO,
FAITO is a katakana word that means ganbaru in Japan, but it means KENKASURU in English, so the usage is bizarre.
DONATSU... there has never been a TSU in the word donut. Who made that up? Why not Donatto or something like that.
MEKISHIKO is really dumb. The country calls itself Mexico, pronounced ME HI KO. For some reason, some genius in Japan decided that instead of ME HI KO, which is correct and VERY easy to pronounce, Japanese people should call it ME KI SHI KO which sounds like the ENGLISH pronunciation of the country. This is incredibly dumb. It is a Japanese word that does not exist in any other language, it is difficult to remember and pronounce, and people in Mexico would not understand it if you used it there.
The words FIRST and FAST are written exactly the same in katakana. Japanese people have no way of telling which is which.
CHUI sounds like Chewy
The words LOVE and RUB are pronounced exactly the same by Japanese people. It also means that calling something rubber is like calling it your lover.
The words LOVE and RUB are pronounced exactly the same by Japanese people. It also means that calling something rubber is like calling it your lover.
The word BAKA is the Spanish word for cow. Saying KAETE! in Japanese sounds like the word for SHUT UP in Spanish.
The word CITY, when pronounced in Japanese sounds like SH*TTY, so saying that you like CITY LIFE in Japan sounds like you are saying I like SHI**Y life.
I had a friend once who told me her brother worked in SUWA (a city north of Nagano). I thought she said her brother worked in a SEWER (gesui), and I really felt bad for the guy. It turned out he worked in a bank.
Do itashimashite sounds like DON'T TOUCH MY MOUSTACHE.
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Francis Wilson and kinky Weather
Shown late night on BBC1 for Red Nose Day 89, this is part of a 1989 Comic Relief special of the ITV sitcom, Hot Metal 'The Rat Sat on the Cat' about journalists of The Daily Crucible Newspaper
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