I like kansai-ben too. There's a popstar here named Koda Kumi whom I love to see interviews with because she's cute, but when she talks, she sounds like an obasan from Osaka who's smoked too many cigarettes. Ironically my wife has met her in the course of her work and said that she couldn't be sweeter.
My son watches a kids show in the mornings called "Nihongo de asobo" (Playing in Japanese)-- the show is meant to teach kids "kokugo" or appreciation and comprehension of Japanese as a language (like how we learn English in school). The show is part of a series of educational kids shows in the morning, "Eigo de asobo" (Playing in English), "Karada de asobo" (Playing Physically), etc.
Sorry, I digress. On Nihongo de asobo occasionally they have a segment where they introduce a common phrase ("gouchisousama deshita", "ittekimasu/iterashai", "hisashiburi", etc.) and then they show conversations with people from different parts of Japan using the phrase in those peoples natural dialects. They'll show two people talking in Sendai, and then the same conversation happening in Fukuoka, then the same conversation in Nagano, making it easy to contrast the differences in dialects. I find it VERY interesting.
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Date: 2007-08-08 10:52 pm (UTC)My son watches a kids show in the mornings called "Nihongo de asobo" (Playing in Japanese)-- the show is meant to teach kids "kokugo" or appreciation and comprehension of Japanese as a language (like how we learn English in school). The show is part of a series of educational kids shows in the morning, "Eigo de asobo" (Playing in English), "Karada de asobo" (Playing Physically), etc.
Sorry, I digress. On Nihongo de asobo occasionally they have a segment where they introduce a common phrase ("gouchisousama deshita", "ittekimasu/iterashai", "hisashiburi", etc.) and then they show conversations with people from different parts of Japan using the phrase in those peoples natural dialects. They'll show two people talking in Sendai, and then the same conversation happening in Fukuoka, then the same conversation in Nagano, making it easy to contrast the differences in dialects. I find it VERY interesting.