Title: Kansai-ben
Part of the reason that I chose to study in the Osaka area
is the dialect. I first came across
Kansai-ben in a manga and anime series that I love. A couple of the more major characters are
from Osaka and speak using the dialect. Living
in with a host family, I get to hear a lot of the common phrases of
Kansai-ben. Words like ‘mecha’ meaning
‘very’ and using ‘hen’ instead of ‘nai’ for a negative. Many of the students also speak Kansai-ben
and I hear it all the time on the bus. One
of my friends taught me a phrase that confuses a lot of people from other parts
of Japan because it doesn’t sound anything like its standard Japanese
counterpart. ‘ikeru’ is kansai-ben for
‘are you okay’. Other phrases like
‘nandeyanen’ meaning ‘why’ sound at least a little like their standard Japanese
equivalents so are easier for people from other areas to understand. Another
one that my friend taught me was ‘seyanen’ for ‘yes’.
A list of phrases in Kansai-ben. |
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