Kansai dialect

[marqs]

Kyoto also has those weird keigo-uses in everyday language, like about a third person "ikaharun desu ka" instead of "ikimasuka" etc.

[Javizy]

Wow, way to revive an old topic. Here's a fabulous resource I was told of recently, granted you need to know some standard Japanese to make much use of it:

http://www2g.biglobe.ne.jp/~gomma/

A long vocabulary list on the same site:

http://www2g.biglobe.ne.jp/~gomma/ajiten.html

I was having a look through, but I couldn't find any conjugation rules. Did you find any on there? There was a 関西 guy in a show I was watching recently, and it seemed like just about every tense was different. One of the dialogue-heavy 超短編小説 by 村上春樹 I read recently was also written entirely in 関西弁, and I barely understood a word Knowing the different conjugation patterns would make an immediate difference, I think.

Overall, I think it's a pretty cool sounding dialect, and would probably be pretty fun to learn. The やs are pretty annoying after a while, though

[Psy]

These might be more your speed:

http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/~denjin/menu.html (関西弁講座）

http://www.j-o-y.net/kanwa/gyo.html (関話辞典）

[aichama]

any with english as well?

[japchinman12]

I know Thank you in Kansai is = Ookinii!