The name of the yoga move from which the company takes its name is /ˈɑːsənə/ (ahh suh nuh) with a stress on the first syllable. However, the name of the app has been “Americanified” to /əˈsɑnə/ (uh sah nuh).
How do you pronounce Asana?
I created a Japanese translation of a post on Quora, and wrote some more.
Asana (a-SAH-na)
As you might already know, Asana really is a company with mindfulness and yoga. So its name has something to do with asana, which means the postures in yoga.
I found an interesting question and answers on Quora about the pronunciation and translated some of them into Japanese.
So, Asana as a company and service is pronounced as
“uh sah nuh ” or “uh-san-uh” and the yogic postures as
“ahh suh nuh” or “oss-uh-nuh”.
| Date: | Nov 3, 2011 to Jan 10, 2017 |
| Source: | https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-pronounce-Asana |
Justin Rosenstein
From experience in learning German, at first I thought we’d pronounce his family name as /rˈoʊzɛnʃtaɪn/, just as in “Einstein”. I actually found some program hosts at Justin’s talks saying so.
However, I found a video where Justin is pronouncing his name himself. It’s now clear that his family name is pronounced as /rˈoʊzɛnstiːn/.
| Date: | Aug 18, 2014 |
| Source: | https://vimeo.com/103727152 |
| Note: | I’ll create subtitles for this video in the near future |
Dustin Moskovitz
Although I couldn’t find any video where Dustin pronounces his name, I found the pronunciation on Wikipedia: /ˈmɒskəvɪts/. It’s quite a complicated set of sounds for a Japanese speaker.
By Dustin Moskovitz – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
| Source: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Moskovitz |