I actually have the same sentiment - I have been in love with Osaka-ben for a long time , and living in Osaka now, I would really love to speak like Japanese people from this region. I think that you can actually learn it, bit by bit, but it still seems pretty embarrassing to for example say one sentence in extra osaka-ben and then continue to speak in hyoujungo... But then, now when I think about it, maybe it would be even stranger if you would speak in really heavy kansai-ben all the time? Maybe some sentences in kansai-ben from time to time, said with skill, are better - it's like you can do a まね of some famous person during the party, to light up the atmosphere.

As much as I would like to speak with some dialect like a native, I still love even more just hearing it. Like, when you randomly hear 「ここにおってね」 from mother to her young son in スーパー when you're doing shopping, or when, during a Kyoto trip, you are looking at the bus stop information with confusion and some おばさん says 「どこへいかはんの？」, trying to help you.

P.S. If there will be a beer, count me in please. (^o^)/

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I know a guy who spent a year living in Osaka, and got a girlfriend there as well. Apparently his dialect is now thicker than hers. He sometimes brings up how there are all these 大阪弁 terms he thought were actually 標準語, haha.

I wonder how foreigners sound like when they pick up 東北弁。Bonus points if they pick it up without realizing how non-standard it is.

I wish I could use 青森弁; it sounds so badass.

Zgarbas wrote:

I wonder how foreigners sound like when they pick up 東北弁。Bonus points if they pick it up without realizing how non-standard it is.

I wish I could use 青森弁; it sounds so badass.

I lived in Miyagi (Sendai specifically) but I never really heard my friends speak 仙台弁. I did learn a couple of words from a friend but forgot them. Mostly they use 標準語 even on Facebook etc. I don't know if it's because they are all university student age, or whether they didn't use it for my benefit but spoke it amongst themselves when I wasn't around...

edit: Here's a link to Sendai-ben I found if anyone is interested http://hougen.u-biq.org/sendai.html

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Tzadeck wrote:

Anyway, I'm in Kyoto so if there's a koohii grab-a-beer event I'd be down.

*derail*
All the good beers and accents are in Osaka.
/Kansaifight ..!

Although I hear a few beer bars are opening up in Kyoto recently.

*/derail*

Tzadeck wrote:

If you don't know Kyoto, you don't know where the good beer bars are.  I do.

I've been to one near 河原町. Forgot the name..
I'm just in love with the direct sale pubs that Minoh Beer runs in Osaka. Good crowd.

The craft beer scene has exploded here recently.

I can pick out some things every now and then. I'm sure if there were a transcript attached that more of it would become clearer. But, I don't think it sounds like Korean. Course, that's what most people say when they hear a form of Japanese that they basically can't understand. I understood like 5%. That's pretty bad. It makes me want to look up stuff about 津軽語。

I think I may have fallen for 若狭弁. It's just unbearably cute.