Hi Showaboy51,

Thank you for posting!😄

Yes, this lesson is about “Aomori-ben” and as you said there are more than one dialect in Aomori prefecture.😮

Let us know if you have any questions.

Cheers,

Yoshimi

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I am not sure but it seems that this podcast was about Tsugaru-Ben😄? I heard that in Aomori prefecture there are also two other dialects😳 Nabu-Ben, and Shimokita-ben.

Kenさん

質問（しつもん）ありがとうございます😄

Their dialect is completely different from the 標準語.

To be honest, as a Japanese person from Tokyo, I didn't understand the dialogue at all😅

Please let us know if you have any questions :)

Sincerely

りょうま（Ryoma）

Team JapanesePod101.com

what makes the words different in Aomori Dialect?

Hello Amanda san,

Thank you for the comment.

Ganbatte kudasai.

Yuki　由紀

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Ummmmmmmmm.... Sounds like Yakuza. :sweat_smile: I don't know why... It's probably not the words at all, I'm still a beginner, I only understand a third of the words. It sounds like Yakuza because the words wound so rough. A haha, Nozomi is so direct! Sorry if we don't pronounce words correctly, gomen ne.

WOW!

Never heard that dialect before. Sounds really cool, like something a hipster young guy would use. But that was the first time I heard japanese and got the feeling I could not understand a BIT! Well, a BIT, I did, but the different structure words got me confused!

Summary via composing phrases in my word processor: 挨拶もちんぷんかんぷんで、普通の話も不思議にわかりました。それが頓珍漢みたいんだな。(Paraphrase - greetings were Greek to me, ordinary conversation I mysteriously understood. Hmm, looks like an absurdity or contradiction.)

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. :oops:

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。

sounds almost like korean

ooh this is nice.:grin: but what i'd really like to learn some kansai ben! :D