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Anyone know Kansai-ben?

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Asher Kingsley

PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:43 am


I <3 dialects XD Does anyone know any Kansai-ben? I'm moving to that area in a few months, and I feel a driving need to learn some.

(Actually, the one I really need to learn is Nagoya-ben, which is kansai-ben in intonation but tokyo-ben in accent, apparently, but I figure the odds of someone knowing any of that are slim xD)
PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 1:15 pm


The only kansai ben I know is what I picked up from anime XD
I know that 'da' is replaced by 'ya', 'nai' often becomes 'hen', as is 'wakarani' becomes 'wakarahen', and that 'baka' is replaced by 'aho', and 'dame' by 'akan'.

I too am really interested in picking up more kansai ben.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:46 pm


Wikipedia Entry on Kansai-ben, in case you haven't already been there.
PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:42 am


I have been told by reliable sources (i.e., three Japanese ladies in Suita, Osaka) that そやそや is the equivalent of そうだそうだ. The also said that Suita Osaka-ben is different from Umeda Osaka-ben (you can go between Suita and Umeda in like fifteen minutes by train.)

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:27 pm


here's a good site I use Kansai-ben Study Website
PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:08 pm


hey, I'm from Nagoya!
and Nagoya-ben and Kansai-ben are really different, so I recommend you don't think too hard about Kansai-ben
Also, In Nagoya people basically speak Hyojungo (regular Japanese).

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