Pronunctiation of Daisuke Matsuzaka?

Question

I cannot stand how American media butchers Daisuke Matsuzaka's name. Everything is Dice-K, D-Mat.
I'm not even Japanese but it really annoys me how we don't take the time to pronounce his name properly.
I remember when he came they first pronounced it Die-soo-kay; the next day they're saying Dice-K

For anyone who actually knows, in Japanese how would you phonetically or shorthand sound it out?
Because from linguistics, I know Japanese is a language that pretty much has words CVCVCVCV. that's consonant vowel consanant vowel sounds.

thanks for any (helpful and relevant) comments.

hi peoples, I asked for how to pronounce his name and WHY/HOW.
Please post more than just __ - __ - __ - __

I'm trying to find the proper pronunciation, not your personal preference/pronunciation.

Answer 1

Reading the English transliteration, I want to pronounce it "Die soo kay Mat soo zah kah", but the media was occasionally clear, when he signed, that he preferred "Die zz keh Mat z'saka". If that's how he wants it, fine by me.

Hey, it took people years to work out that Roy Oswalt's surname was correctly "OH zwalt" and not "Oz walt".

And Andruw Jones' given name has been butchered beyond recovery.

Answer 2

Thank you for clearing this up, I cringe when I hear the name pronounced with two syllables when I know it should be three. I am no scholar, but I pride myself on being able to read, Somehow I know when a name is not being pronounced correctly, because throughout my working life, I have worked with all kinds of people, but most Americans don't think it makes that much of a difference how we pronounce a persons name. Another Japanese Baseball player whose name they all mispronounce is, Ichiro Suzuki, It should be pronounced, E CHEER O. and Not EACH A RO. It is insulting to mispronounce a persons name, Why don't you ask?

Answer 3

Dice-K is actually a relatively faithful pronounciation of the Japanese personal name Daisuke; the 'su' gets shortened to just 's' in pronounciation, like the Japanese word for 'to be', 'desu'.

Answer 4

Die-sue-kay

Mat-sue-sock-ah

Lifelong Sox Fan. I live in R.I. and listen WEEI all day. You can take that to the bank.

We ahh wicked awesome.

Go Pahk ya cah in hahvad yahd ked.
or
Go park your car in Harvard Yard Kid.

LOL.

Go SOX

Answer 5

Dai - as in die, su as in sue, ke as in kay (english word die,sue, and kay (like okay), just to clear up the pronunciation better.)

Ma as in mah, tsu as in sue with a lisp sound (think it's a lisp sound im not very good at explaining this), za as in zah - ka as in kah

Dai-su-ke Ma-tsu-za-ka
OK I WAS WRONG!!!!!!!! ONLY BECAUSE I READ HIS NAME WRONG LOL, i read it as daisuki not daisuke

MY MISTAKE!

There is a japanese word Daisuki which means 'very likeable'... that's what threw me off

Answer 6

I always thought it was Day-zook. Well, there's American publication for ya'.

Answer 7

It is DICE KAY MAHTS SOOO SAA KAA

Answer 8

Dice-K -- Mat-Soo-Uk-A

Answer 9

sadly we are to lazy and dont have enough time to pronounce it all.