Japanese Dialects

Index » Learning resources

  • 1
 
Reply #1 - 2009 June 13, 8:31 am
chamcham Member
Registered: 2005-11-11 Posts: 1444

http://hougen.u-biq.org/

Great page for learning Japanese dialects

Would love to hear from other people about
resources for learning Japanese dialects.

Reply #2 - 2009 June 14, 10:21 pm
captal Member
From: San Jose Registered: 2008-03-22 Posts: 677

Thanks heaps, this is great. I love knowing dialect, if only so I can understand the people around me.

Reply #3 - 2009 June 14, 11:17 pm
thermal Member
From: Melbourne, Australia Registered: 2007-11-30 Posts: 399

Just be aware that sites like these usually include everything without regard for who uses the expresssion and how common it is. I once read a site going into great detail on the Nagoya dialect. I mentioned some of them to friends and they said "Yeah, my grandmother says that sometimes". For the Nagoya dialect ones, most of them are only used by old people. The ones that aren't, are not necessarily used all the time either and some are now part of the standard dialect. EG.

sentence-final particle "wa" (feminine word) => "wa" (men and women)
owatta wa => owattawa

You can look up stuff you hear which is good, just be really careful of saying any of this stuff until you have heard it many times to get a feel for it (and people your age typically say it).

Last edited by thermal (2009 June 14, 11:45 pm)

Advertising (register and sign in to hide this)
JapanesePod101 Sponsor
 
  • 1