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

Thanks for all the work you've done to teach us aomoriben.

My japanese friends are so surprised when i use it ;)

お、めやぐ！めやぐ！めぐせべなー！:sad: :oops: :sad:

(aomori-ben for 御免なさい！恥ずかしいなぁ！)

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. :wink:

marky

I thought the transcript of 青森しさ行ぐじゃ was right so... ;)

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

It should be iGAne, shouldn't it?

deedoさん、

the PDF is correct.

行がね （igane） is the same as the standard japanese 行かない (ikanai) "does not go." :cool:

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!! :cool:

marky