{"id":2767,"date":"2021-04-06T15:26:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T06:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2021-04-09T09:40:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T00:40:32","slug":"kansai-dialect-sound-like-a-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/kansai-dialect-sound-like-a-local\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansai Dialect – Sound Like a Local"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kyoto and Kansai Dialects – what are they? What are Japanese dialects? Do specific dialects have any specific words and phrases? These and some other questions will be answered here!\u00a0I have to note that though Kyoto dialect and Kansai dialects are a little different, a lot of the words and phrases are exactly the same, so we will cover them together.<\/p>\n

Dialect or “Ben”<\/h3>\n

If you are looking from the outside, Japan seems like a homogenous country where everything is standardised and works like a well-oiled machine. Japanese language, with all the richness of it, also appears to be standardised. But it is quite far from being so. One big difference that is very noticeable even from the outside of the country is that the Japanese language you hear in anime and real-life Japanese is very different.<\/p>\n

To give you a couple of quick examples:<\/p>\n

\"Japanese<\/p>\n

These are very general, and there are exceptions, but these are the only differences noticeable from the outside. Some are of the above words are archaic and not used any longer. This simple example may help us realise that there is no “standardised” Japanese, not really.However, just to make it a little easier, we will refer to to the Japanese taught at almost all Japanese language schools as Standard Japanese.<\/p>\n

Japanese Dialects<\/h3>\n

Japan has 16 distinct dialects, which are further divided into 42 separate ones. Every prefecture of Japan has a way of saying certain words; if heard by an outsider, it would make very little sense.
\nThe major dialects are named after the area they come from:<\/p>\n