Saturday, July 18, 2009

Day 6: Dialects

Osaka
Lesson 7: Asking someone out in Osaka dialect
I definitely found the いかへん really odd sounding. Not only that word, but the inflection sounds so alien when we switch from Tokyo dialect to Osaka dialect.

Vocabulary:
買い物 - かいもの shopping
おもてたけど (Tokyo) or おもててんけど (Osaka)- I was thinking of....

Kansai
I decided to make this post all about dialects, so I've skipped Lesson 8 for now to look at their Fun Friday episode on the Kansai dialect.

ぼちぼちえんな - not bad
どうでっか - how's it going? (どうですか)
あかんわ - bad!

Miyazaki
Lesson 10: Miyazaki Dialect (prefecture southeast of Kyushu island)

To say "how are you?"
元気 に しちょっち?
元気 に しちょる?
元気 やじ?

To say "long time no see"
Standard dialect: さいきん ぜんぜん みてないけどどうしてるの?
Miyazaki dialect: さいきん ぜんぜん みちょらんけん どんげん しちょっと
あ、げんき に しちょるよ

Other common Miyazaki dialect things:
さみ instead of さむい (cold)
こせん instead of でしょう (isn't it)

Sometimes the verbs end in CHAWA or CHAGA.

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