Japanese Dialects

thomas · Jun 16, 2002, 10:01

If you are interested in Japanese dialects, please visit Kazuhide Yamamoto's web site

=> http://hougen.japanref.com (in Japanese and English)

Dr. Yamamoto works at the ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories in Kyoto. His site (which we're proud to host since a few days) lists resources related to local dialects.

moyashi · Jun 17, 2002, 08:35

hehe ... some are sooo diffenrent than standard Japanese that you can't even really understand what they're saying.

Yamamoto-ban is said to sound the most like English.
I like the hard Osaka-ban dialect.
Sapporo is pretty close to the standard pronunication.
Standard pronunciation would be what the TV announcers of NHK speak.

Definitely something fn to learn. When I was still able to sound like a person from Osaka I was accused of being a half breed "half". LOL ... Blond hair and Blue eyes but still many folks insisted that I was either half or my father married a Japanese lady for his second wife. lolololol ... and I had only lived in Osaka for 3 months way back when.

Cheers and make sure you have fun. This part of Japanese I find extremely interesting.

samuraitora · Jun 20, 2002, 22:19

thanks for the link

thomas · Aug 16, 2002, 04:57

Originally posted by moyashi
hehe ... some are sooo diffenrent than standard Japanese that you can't even really understand what they're saying.

Sorry for replying so late, but that's absolutely true. Even though my wife was born and raised in the Tohoku area, she has troubles understanding local folks after having lived in Tokyo for about ten years. She always jokes she'd need a interpreter to understand some members of her own family.

The same applies to German. Some Austrian, Swiss or East German dialects sound just too funny.
;)

moyashi · Aug 16, 2002, 11:44

Can you write Shiragana?

lololo ... It took me a while to understand what that ojisan was asking me

Microage97 · Aug 20, 2002, 11:49

Yes, My wife can't understand some delicts. It is weird but she also feels bad when people from Tokyo talk to her. I think it has something to do with not being the same as her. What do you all think?

thomas · Aug 20, 2002, 16:28

Hard to say, I don't know too much about regional resentments among Japanese. Probably in Japan it's still more important where you graduated from than where you actually come from.

moyashi · Aug 22, 2002, 22:26

universitites, schools, companies have some what importance.

Definitely in Hoshu (the main island) if you're not in Tokyo you are a certified country bumpkin or potato boy.

Osaka folks pee on that mentality and Us up in Hokkaido just laugh at the whole Honshu mentality.

**lexico** · Jan 20, 2005, 00:50

Hi, Thomas, again!
I'd like to see the site, but the link is gone.
Where can I find it now?

**Glenn** · Jan 20, 2005, 06:46

Again, old thread. The page probably doesn't exist anymore.

**lexico** · Feb 28, 2005, 02:32

Here's another site by Daniel Long Percieved Dialect Maps of Japan and Korea

Dr. Kazuhide Yamamoto at the ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories in Kyoto still runs the web site but he seems to have disontinuted offering his resources related to local dialects.

If you are interested in Natural Language Processing, Corpus Linguistics, or Machine Translation, see his website Spoken Language Translation Research Labs

Jun 16, 2002, 10:01	#1
thomas Decommissioned ex-admin Join Date: Mar 14, 2002 Posts: 4,209	Japanese Dialects If you are interested in Japanese dialects, please visit Kazuhide Yamamoto's web site => http://hougen.japanref.com (in Japanese and English) Dr. Yamamoto works at the ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories in Kyoto. His site (which we're proud to host since a few days) lists resources related to local dialects. __________________ Remember what the dormouse said, feed your head, feed your head!

Jun 17, 2002, 08:35	#2
moyashi Regular Member Join Date: Apr 15, 2002 Location: SonyLand Age: 40 Posts: 1,566	hehe ... some are sooo diffenrent than standard Japanese that you can't even really understand what they're saying. Yamamoto-ban is said to sound the most like English. I like the hard Osaka-ban dialect. Sapporo is pretty close to the standard pronunication. Standard pronunciation would be what the TV announcers of NHK speak. Definitely something fn to learn. When I was still able to sound like a person from Osaka I was accused of being a half breed "half". LOL ... Blond hair and Blue eyes but still many folks insisted that I was either half or my father married a Japanese lady for his second wife. lolololol ... and I had only lived in Osaka for 3 months way back when. Cheers and make sure you have fun. This part of Japanese I find extremely interesting. __________________ crazy gonna crazy

Jun 20, 2002, 22:19	#3
samuraitora Regular Member Join Date: May 29, 2002 Location: Detroit MI Age: 35 Posts: 782	thanks for the link __________________ ja mata samuraitora (^_-)/

Aug 16, 2002, 04:57	#4
thomas Decommissioned ex-admin Join Date: Mar 14, 2002 Posts: 4,209	Originally posted by moyashi hehe ... some are sooo diffenrent than standard Japanese that you can't even really understand what they're saying. Sorry for replying so late, but that's absolutely true. Even though my wife was born and raised in the Tohoku area, she has troubles understanding local folks after having lived in Tokyo for about ten years. She always jokes she'd need a interpreter to understand some members of her own family. The same applies to German. Some Austrian, Swiss or East German dialects sound just too funny. ;)

Jan 20, 2005, 00:50	#9
lexico Chukchi Salmon Join Date: Dec 22, 2004 Location: Sunny South Korea Posts: 2,223	Hi, Thomas, again! I'd like to see the site, but the link is gone. Where can I find it now? __________________ Z: The fish in the water are happy. H: How do you know ? You're not fish. Z: How do you know I don't ? You're not me. H: True I am not you, and I cannot know. Likewise, I know you're not, therefore I know you don't. Z: You asked me how I knew implying you knew I knew. In fact I saw some fish, strolling down by the Hao River, all jolly and gay. --Zhuangzi

Aug 16, 2002, 11:44	#5
moyashi Regular Member Join Date: Apr 15, 2002 Location: SonyLand Age: 40 Posts: 1,566	Can you write Shiragana? lololo ... It took me a while to understand what that ojisan was asking me

Aug 20, 2002, 11:49	#6
Microage97 Regular Member Join Date: Apr 10, 2002 Location: St. Paul MN Age: 35 Posts: 32	Yes, My wife can't understand some delicts. It is weird but she also feels bad when people from Tokyo talk to her. I think it has something to do with not being the same as her. What do you all think?

Aug 20, 2002, 16:28	#7
thomas Decommissioned ex-admin Join Date: Mar 14, 2002 Posts: 4,209	Hard to say, I don't know too much about regional resentments among Japanese. Probably in Japan it's still more important where you graduated from than where you actually come from.

Aug 22, 2002, 22:26	#8
moyashi Regular Member Join Date: Apr 15, 2002 Location: SonyLand Age: 40 Posts: 1,566	universitites, schools, companies have some what importance. Definitely in Hoshu (the main island) if you're not in Tokyo you are a certified country bumpkin or potato boy. Osaka folks pee on that mentality and Us up in Hokkaido just laugh at the whole Honshu mentality.

Jan 20, 2005, 06:46	#10
Glenn 考え中 Join Date: Jan 8, 2004 Posts: 5,544	Again, old thread. The page probably doesn't exist anymore. __________________ Avoid Mojibake! -- 文字化けを避ける！ Dictionary at Goo - English-Japanese, Japanese-English, Japanese Language Teach Yourself Japanese and Teach Yourself Japanese Message Board Jim Breen's online dictionary and kanji lookup

Feb 28, 2005, 02:32	#11
lexico Chukchi Salmon Join Date: Dec 22, 2004 Location: Sunny South Korea Posts: 2,223	Here's another site by Daniel Long Percieved Dialect Maps of Japan and Korea Dr. Kazuhide Yamamoto at the ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories in Kyoto still runs the web site but he seems to have disontinuted offering his resources related to local dialects. If you are interested in Natural Language Processing, Corpus Linguistics, or Machine Translation, see his website Spoken Language Translation Research Labs

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