Comments on: dropping hints in japanese

by: cesar

Sat, 03 Dec 2005 11:36:34 +0000

Hey, this site has some japanese language information http://misaiato.blogspot.com/

by: heather

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:57:41 +0000

Thank you for that feedback!

It’s nice having a native speaker offer corrections.

And the podcast made no distinction between male or female speech

Thanks very much.

Your English is very good, maybe you feel you’re not making progress since your English is already so advanced!

by: Todon(Natsu)

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:23:39 +0000

Hi, Heather

>Kansai Ben is a dialect of Kansai area,and the most powerful dialect.

I partly agree with this idea, but you know we mostly use 標準語
in our converstations. Kansai ben is mostley used in Kansai areas.
Beseides Kansai ben, we have Hakata ben, Tohou ben, Nagoya ben,
etc. They are so interesting. I’m Japnese, but I sometimes don’t
understand them at all…. I’m afraind I couldn’t find why the author
of “Kansai Ben is a dialet of Kansai are” thought Kansai ben was
the most powerful dialet. Let me know if you find the reason.

I can give you the example sentece about いっしょにいかないか

１．おいしい　レストラン　が　できたんだって。いっしょにいかない？
２．この　えいが　おもしろそう。　いっしょにいかない？

いっしょにいかないか is the same meaning of いっしょにいかない.
Men tend to use いっしょにいかないか？ or いっしょにいこうぜ？.
Women tend to use いっしょにいかない？. We say these phrases in up
tones. And if you think you want to ask a person to go together more
strongly, we say いっしょに　いこうよ！(for women) or いっしょにいこうぜ
(for men) in DOWN tones. I hope this helps you a lot.

I’m having difficulty learning ENGLISH….hahaha.

by: scott

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:58:46 +0000

Heh. Shazbot was an expletive used on Mork and Mindy and then later on in the Simpsons. So sayeth the WIKIPEDIA!

by: heather

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:58:46 +0000

Shazbot?! what does that mean?

what dialect of english do you speak?

;)

by: scott

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:46:32 +0000

Shazbot! I’m having enough difficulty learning the “regular”( if that is even apropos ) dialect!

by: heather

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:42:09 +0000

oh i go looking for the link and find loads: here’s two:

Kansai Ben is a dialect of Kansai area,and the most powerful dialect.
http://www.ox.compsoc.net/~gemini/kansai_ben/osaka.html
http://japanese.about.com/od/japaneselessons/

Probably the most powerful dialect In Japan is Kansai-ben
http://www.hatano-es.com/kiyo/journal/archives/000212.html (deadlink but google saw it)

by: heather

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:40:51 +0000

i read somewhere that kansai-ben was a “most powerfiul dialect”

what exactly does that mean??

by: scott

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:33:48 +0000

No no, I honestly didn’t know. If I recall correctly, Alex has had a couple of episodes that include Kansai dialect and I think lesson 7 was one of them. I have basically decided to leave Kansai dialect for “later” and I ended up skipping over the Kansai episodes( read: I’m totally lazy! ). I have enough on my plate to struggle with without learning a second dialect!

by: heather

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:08:21 +0000

you’re being too generous, scott! it’s my mistake.

i have fixed it now. i wrote it without access to the show notes.

i don’t know what i was thinking.

in case anyone else missed it, the show notes are available from the site:
http://japanese.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=31851

by: scott

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:46:27 +0000

I’m having trouble getting the 『いしょいいかない』. I know 『いっしょにいかない(か)』 can be “why don’t you we go together” or some such, but I don’t understand the usage you have above. Could you explain it a little further?