方言－dialect－
There are alot of dialects in Japan. There are roughly 5 dialects. Tohoku dialect, Kanto dialect, Chubu dialect, Kansai dialect and Kyushyu dialect. But There are several kinds in each of them.
We live in Aichi and use Mikawa dialect. We often say "Jan-Dara-Rin". It is used for ending a sentence. For example, In English say "Why don't you try?" In Mikawa dialect say "Yattemirin." It should be "Yattegoran."in standard Japanese. But among Japanese, We sometimes can't understand other dialects. They are Tohoku dialect, Okinawa dialect and so on. So There are TV programs about Japanese dialects. It is a game in which TV personalities musn't speak their dialect. It is a lot of fun!
Our conversation school teachear said "My country(AUS) has few dialects. So Japan is interesting." How about your country?
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In what parts of Japan do they speak a dialect and is there also a kind of 'youth-dialect', so language only the youth understands?
Hi!!!My name is Elif.
I'm originally Turkish but I live in Canada.In Turkey we have lots of dialects too.There are seven regions there and all of them have their own dialects.It really sounds funny when you listen to another dialect.
In Japan which dialect is the most popular one and represents the original Japanese pronunciation?For example in Turkey ,Istanbul dialect is the most popular one which represents original pronunciation of Turkish.
Are some of those dialects considered more humorous than others? For example in Germany there are lots of local accents. And some sound a little bit ... funny, maybe even backwards... So some of them are frequntly used by comedians...
To Lucy
Thanks!Every part of Japan has its own dialect.Yes,We have youth dialect.Older people say"Hontoudesuka?"meaning "Really?"But young people say"Majide?"Also,young have different intonaiton.
To Elif
Thank you!Oh,We didn't know Turkish people have so many dialect.Our most popular and standard dialect is Tokyo.
To Dominik
Thank you so much!A lot of Japanese comedians are from the area where Osaka dialect is spoken.
Kyusyu dialect and Tohoku dialect are funny.So we often misunderstand them for different meaning.
Jan-Dara-Rin
I'm a great believer in a bi-lingual way of life! Are you bilingual?
By the way do you know the difference between a language and a dialect? (I'm a 'funny' answer)
Sorry... I mean: 'I have a funny answer'... everyone makes mistakes!
Dear dialect group,
Dialect is an interesting topic for a language teacher, so I enjoyed reading your report very much. Almost every language has different dialects. I lived on a tiny Pacific Island for several years. There are only 7000 people who speak that language, but there were three different dialects. People are proud. They want to be unique or special. Creating different dialects is one way to show that they are special.
So... do you want to hear my answer??? when I was a student in anthropology, we used to say that the difference between a language and a dialect was: a language is a dialect with an army...!!! What do you think of this definition???
I am from England which has many dialects. 'Cockney' from central London. 'Geordie' from Newcastle. 'Scouse' from Liverpool. 'Brummy' from Birmingham. The dialect from my city, Bristol in the South West of England, makes the speaker sound stupid or like a farmer. Even if you are well educated it is hard to find work in London if you speak in a Bristol dialect.
To Frankie
Thanks a lot!To tell the truth,We are taught by my English teacher.
Your definition is very interesting.
To Jean
Thank you!There are only 7000 people your country.But your country has three different dialects.It's interesting.I want to go your country.
To Mr goodnignt
Thank you for your comment.I was surprised by your comment.
I myself go to an English conversation scholl.My conversation teacher is scottish.
In America, we have a handful of distinct dialects, but the differences between them lie mostly in the way people sound, not in word usage (or word differences). A Southerner from Georgia and a New Yorker will use almost all of the same words, but the way they say those words might sound very different.
It's a regional thing with Southerners, Cajuns (Louisiana) and Texans sounding similar but with just subtle differences, while those three groups sound very different from New Englanders (especially the Boston area) and New Yorkers. Northern Midwesterners (Ohio, Michigan, the Chicago area in Illinois) also have what you might call a distinct dialect.
One big difference that cuts across the North and South way of speaking in America is how people say "you guys" or "y'all." Northerners say "you guys" and the Southerners "y'all."
It sounds like our dialects in American are much more cohesive than the dialects of Japan. Do you think that's true?
(Keep up the good work!)
I'm from England but I live in Belgium, which has 3 languages! The North speaks Dutch, the South speaks, French, the East (on the border with Germany) speaks German. Federal laws are published in French and Dutch and Brussels, the capital, is officially bilingual, for instance all streetsigns are in both languages. At school, French-speakers are required to learn Dutch and Dutch-speakers French - it is not unusual here to find people who speak 3 or 4 languages! But I admit, rarely Japanese, although there are some good courses, for example at Leuven University.
Good luck with your language learning!
I'm from the State of Washington in USA. Here in the Pacific Northwest, we probably have the least distinctive dialect.
We don't have much of an accent when we speak, and speak basically straight American English without much change in tone than what you would read in a dictionary. However, we DO speak faster than people in the South states do, so our words tend to run together! D:
We also have small pockets of local dialect; if you're from a very small farming or lumber mill town (like the one I grew up in), you get what's called a "hick accent" - basiaclly, pseudo-Southern accent with the speaking patterns of a Northern person.
As stated above, America has various different accents. A "hick accent" as I tend to call it, is a Southern accent with Northen dialogue. Instead of saying "Y'all", we say "you guys" with a Southern drawl. Hehe.
Languages are so complex! I want to learn Japanese but there aren't many good classes in my city.
I'm from Indonesia. The official language and the lingua-franca is 'Bahasa Indonesia' ('bahasa' means language). But the country is made up of many ethnics who have languages of their own, and dialects within each language. So in Java island you'll hear Javanese spoken differently by people from Banyuwangi (located on the eastern tip of the island), Tulungagung, Madura, Surabaya (all of them among those in the Eastern Java province); Solo, Semarang, Yogya (in the Central Java); and Sundanese spoken differently by people in Banten, Tasikmalaya, or Bandung (from Western Java). Even Jakarta has its own native language, called 'Betawi'. In Sulawesi or Celebes island, starting from the southern tip northwards, you will hear people speak these 'bahasa' (I give up trying to figure out english suffix for each language; maybe you can help me guess which ends with -ese, and which ends with -ian, or something else): Bugis, Makassar, Mandar, Tolaki, Banggai, Toraja, Duri, Mamasa, Manado, Gorontalo, Ratahan, Sangir, Tomini, Tonsea, Tontemboan, to name a few. And I have just mentioned only two islands so far.
In general, however, when we speak of a dialect, we mean the accent of an ethnic language heard when speaking Bahasa Indonesia. It is often thought of as 'cool' if you can speak Bahasa Indonesia in many dialects, moreover if you can even speak the languages. As for me, I could try the dialects from Surabaya, Madura, Central Java, Sunda, Jakarta, Central Sulawesi, Ambon (from the islands of Maluku or Moluccas); but I am at best with the dialects from Manado (Northern Sulawesi), Bugis and Makassar (Southern Sulawesi), because my parents are both from Manado and I was born and grew up in Makassar.
I'm sorry if this is a rather lengthy comment. But you think you've had enough? Try and listen to those dialects as they appear when each native speaker practices English or Japanese! But I think you don't mind the strangeness in their voice, as long as you can understand them.
Dear everyone
Thanks.I learned about dialects all over the world.I'm going to graduate at my school.In Japan,High school students graduates in February or March.I'm going to go University and I have to move my hometown.So I can't read your comments.
I like English.I'm going to study English at University and I go to an English conversation scholl.This is very fun.But I still can't say what I really want to say in English there are many words I don't know.
Now I am reading English books and listening to songs and trying to understand the meaning of words.I also like watching foreign movies and sometimes mimic my favorite phrases.I want to go abroad visit many countries and see different cultures.Of course,I want to feel a lot of dialects.If you come to Japan,you have to go a lot of places in Japan.Thank you for read my sentence.Good luck everyone!and take care.
(I think this sentance has a lot of mistakes.sorry!)
From Jan-Dara-Rin
Jan-Dara-Rin,
If you will have email, I would not mind talking with you. I would like to hear about your progress, as I know that English is a very, very hard language to learn. Its structure is backwards for a lot of people.
If you like you can email me. My email is liliumnoir @ gmail.com (just remove the spaces, I add them to stop spambots). You can also click on my name on this tagboard.
I would also not mind learning some from you or any of the other students who are interested in emailing me, if at all possible =3
- Jamie
Yeah, Sweden has a few dialects.. but we can all still understand eachother, as it's not much of a difference anyways.
Ahh, these television shows are hilarious!
My wife is Japanese and we visited her mother in Tokyo last January. While I was there we were watching television one night and they had one of these game shows on.
At any rate, they had a sumo wrestler (I forget his name, I apologize) calling his mother in Hokkaido, but he was only allowed to speak as though he was from Tokyo. Very funny.
I am from New Mexico (north of Texas and east of California and Arizona,) we have many people who speak both Spanish and English. As a result, some of them have very thick accents which can be hard to understand if you are just learning English.
Also, I have lived in many parts of the United States and have heard several different accents. There is an interesting dialect of English spoken only in a certain part of the U.S. near Louisiana called Creole (it is a mixture of English and French) that is quite hard to understand.
In addition to the accents changing, slang changes dramatically when visiting different sections of the U.S. (Someone covered that above.) There can also be differences in slang between two cities in the same state.
This is a very interesting project, and I wish you all the best of luck.
@quminante: Hiya!
I live in Belgium myself (100% Belgian ^^)
I couldn't help notice that you described the North part of Belgium as Dutch. If you want to be more accurate and grant the Northern people of Belgium the uniqness they deserve (yes, I myself live there, does it show ^^?), it would be more appropriate to say the North part is Flemish speaking. Since we -are- talking about "dialects" that would be the right thing to say.
Flemish is as similar to Dutch as English is to American (meaning, they sort of are the same languages, but still have significant differences in sound and vocabulary). Another thing is, is that in the Flanders the official language (as mentioned on all official documents and as believed by the rest of the world) is Dutch, not Flemish. There's a historical reason for this that I don't know accurately enough to retell, sorry =).
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I am Chinese, and we have many, many dialects. Many are nothing like the main language (Mandarin).
I don't really understand how you can live with so many types of dialects.
In America we have dialects, but they do not really incorporate different words so much as different accents.
Ohayo Goziamasu,
I am NEERAJ 33 yrs old,from INDIA.
I like JAPANESE from the core of my heart. I respect them a lot b'coz of they are very hard worker....and honest too.
I am keen intrested to make frienships....with JAPANESE peopels..
Eagerly, waiting for your mail at bneerajdma@rediffmail.com
With love
Alwasy Yours
NEERAJ
Thank you for these posts! It's nice to read about things like this. x
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