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 Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:03 pm
you do know kansai-ben consider rude? i suggest speak kyoto-ben. it is a lot like kansai-ben, but it is consider polite,melodiuos and sophisticate.
if have told you before , doma.
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:26 pm
Aiko_589 you do know kansai-ben consider rude? i suggest speak kyoto-ben. it is a lot like kansai-ben, but it is consider polite,melodiuos and sophisticate. if have told you before , doma. I don't know about rude... I suppose I know what you mean, but it's a dialect. Rude seems a bit harsh-- maybe inappropriate at times? I know that Kyoto-ben is more sophisticated and polite-sounding, and kansai-ben can be quite rough, but I think there is a formal form of kansai-ben used too. I think it's fine as long as you don't throw in any rude words...
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:25 pm
Yea Akita-ben!
Not that I can speak it at all in the slightest...but I'm partial to Akita because my husband was an exchange student at Akita Daigaku and we went back there recently on vacation and hung out with his friends and walked all around and it's such a nice place...not all touristy and western...I mean, those places can be fun too...but Akita was nice a rural and quiet and...very Japanese. It's hard to describe. We've always said if we were to move to Japan, we'd at least have to live in Sendai if not Akita because it is so nice up there. Cold yes...but oh well, cold is fun too!
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Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:01 am
Hikari.S Yea Akita-ben! Not that I can speak it at all in the slightest...but I'm partial to Akita because my husband was an exchange student at Akita Daigaku and we went back there recently on vacation and hung out with his friends and walked all around and it's such a nice place...not all touristy and western...I mean, those places can be fun too...but Akita was nice a rural and quiet and...very Japanese. It's hard to describe. We've always said if we were to move to Japan, we'd at least have to live in Sendai if not Akita because it is so nice up there. Cold yes...but oh well, cold is fun too! where in japan is Akita? north Honshuu? 日本内でアキタはどこにある？北本州？見えるなら思うけど、あたしは東京弁が勉強したのです。 but still, on the conversation side, Using atashi instead of Watashi is not specific to Dialects, because my japanese teachers (紀子先生と聡美先生)come from Yokohama and takamatsu, respectively. and they both use it.
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Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:06 pm
I have lived in Nagoya for a long time and I can honestly say that there are very few people out side of oji-sans the speak it. It seems like everyone wants to have their own accents these days but the truth is that most only surrive in the country side or in the four big regions of Tokyo, Kansai, Ryuukyu (Okinawa) and Aomori. Also, lots of little islands off the cost have all sorts of crazy accents but since there is a serious population drop in those areas it seems unlikely that the next generation will keep them up.
After chilling in Kansai it has been really interesting to learn the dialect. Some parts are dying out (like using oru instead of iru) but everyone throws around wakarahen and nande ya nee like its their job. Interestingly enough, most of the words in keigo come from Kansai speak, like the aforementioned oru (the humble form of iru). Also, the way of saying -nakerabanarimasen is totally different. Talking with my girlfriend`s family is always a linguistic adventure of epic proportions and I`m picking up all sorts of crazy stuff.
Also, I found it interesting that that Bevis and Butthead was subbed in Kansai-ben. Kinda tells you something about the language, no?
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