Thanks for the lesson - I could start to unravel some mysteries in my speech and comprehension now. In some respects it’s not that removed from my parents’ speech pattern, and it gives me a surprising amount of comfort. Maybe that’s why I got a bit more of the complex material.

Apparently, I have a strange fluency given the background of hearing Tohoku-ben as a child (as well as having grudgingly gone to Japanese language school as a young boy), yet it’s still going to take a lot of effort to unravel some language blockages, and clean up some interesting (and bad) habits.

I’ve lost comprehension when listening at first right at the greeting level in this lesson though I was surprised at the last lesson (Japanese Culture #48) that I was able to pick up about 80% of what was going on. It’s a strange distribution of comprehension skills with a slight advantage of having heard the southern Tohoku-ben continually through adulthood.

Perhaps due to weather conditions in Aomori that speech gets as terse as it can. One can’t dawdle. This dialect makes maximum use of minimizing syllables.

Let me also introduce myself this way: おらは遠藤です。米国の加州だげんちょう。(My name is Endo. I’m from California.) I’ve seen and heard this pattern before from my own background; it will surprise a stranger once you meet someone in that area - use dagenchou to mean “from a locality”.

So: 今でも昼飯もくべ. (Might as well eat lunch now.) That’s right, you don’t have to say “taberu” … and this was a faux pas I once made with Japanese speakers because of my “northeast” versus “southwest” background.

やっぱしぜいごうぺかな。(I trying to say: Maybe I’m a country bumpkin.)

おもせがった。(This was amusing/interesting.)
へばまんず。

My japanese friends are so surprised when i use it

yes, you’re right. and thanks for bringing that to my attention.
i think it should be all sorted now if you want to re-download the pdf.

marky

But it’s don’t get the transcript for 魚買いさ行がね

It should be iGAne, shouldn’t it?

the PDF is correct.
行がね （igane） is the same as the standard japanese 行かない (ikanai) “does not go.”

魚買いさ行がね　→　魚買いに行かない

but it brought to my attention the preceeding example
青森しさ行ぐじゃ had an incorrect romaji transcription, that should be
Aomori-shi sa igu ja.

I’m updating it now. Thanks for pointing that out!!

marky

In the negative non-past verbs explanation

i think 魚買いさ行がね　would be sakana kai sa gyögane

Am i wrong with this one ?

I’m doing fine, just have to eat a lot all the time (removed 3,5 m of my guts, but no worries), and the future is looking good

へば、まんず

everyone, thank you! nozomiさん says thanks too!

i’m so interested in dialects because i think we can hear a really ancient kind of japanese. i’m not sure if everyone here knows this or not, so i’ll go ahead and say it anyways.
modern japanese is an artificial language. it was concocted (maybe standardized is a better word) in the Meiji Era to help unify the former provinces into one nation. in tokyo, the old 江戸弁 (edo-ben) is nearly completely wiped out. but a 東京弁 (tokyo-ben) has been emerging over the last 50 years, but since tokyo’s japanese is considered the norm, all japanese everywhere more or less speak 東京弁 if they are not using their dialect.

danielさん、
thanks you, i was hoping you’d like it! as for 長崎弁 (nagasaki-ben), you’re totally right. i hope we can get them in for it. i’d love to explore as many dialects as possible.

Elfunkoさん、
i hope you like cold weather! LOL.
please stay tuned we have 3 more installments of Aomori-ben coming down the pipe!
by the way, did you check out the PDF?
it has a lot of grammar explanations! Peter told me, it’s our longest PDF to date. lots of good stuff in their to really make it clear.
those 5 lines of dialog were RICH with new vocab and grammar points!

Alanさん、
i’ll try to get nozomi to join the community, but right now is job-hunting season here in japan, so she’s really busy at the moment. so i’ll go ahead and answer on her behalf (御免為さいね）.
her name is written 希, to most ears this name means hope, right? sounds like 望 or 臨 (hope, overlooking). but in this case the kanji means ‘rare.’
as for your Aomori-ben, it’s all correct!

Sølviさん、
早くお大事にね！
get well soon, everyone here is pulling for you!

マーキー