Comments on: A look at Japanese Kansai dialect http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2009/05/19/a-look-a-kansai-dialect/ My life as a father, Buddhist and Japanophile. Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Matthew 真秀 http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2009/05/19/a-look-a-kansai-dialect/#comment-2817 Matthew 真秀 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:00:10 +0000 http://nihonshukyo.wordpress.com/?p=3772#comment-2817 HA.... I'm just happy that they understand me!!! hehehe HA….

I’m just happy that they understand me!!!

hehehe

]]> By: Doug http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2009/05/19/a-look-a-kansai-dialect/#comment-2712 Doug Fri, 22 May 2009 10:42:36 +0000 http://nihonshukyo.wordpress.com/?p=3772#comment-2712 <strong>Jishin:</strong> I never knew that about the south Kyushu dialect. Were the extra words intentional in the dialect, or incidental due to their geographic isolation? <strong>Stephen:</strong> A good anecdote there, thank you. :) Yeah, I've heard that foreign men speaking Japanese sound by and large pretty feminine or gay. I know I tend to do it when I say something like 'kawaii' or some such. I'm trying to unlearn that habit, but at the same time, my wife also got mad at me when I speak too masculine. It's abrasive she thinks, so I just try to be slightly masculine without acting macho, if that makes sense. Jishin: I never knew that about the south Kyushu dialect. Were the extra words intentional in the dialect, or incidental due to their geographic isolation?

Stephen: A good anecdote there, thank you. :) Yeah, I’ve heard that foreign men speaking Japanese sound by and large pretty feminine or gay. I know I tend to do it when I say something like ‘kawaii’ or some such. I’m trying to unlearn that habit, but at the same time, my wife also got mad at me when I speak too masculine. It’s abrasive she thinks, so I just try to be slightly masculine without acting macho, if that makes sense.

]]> By: Stephen http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2009/05/19/a-look-a-kansai-dialect/#comment-2709 Stephen Wed, 20 May 2009 07:47:15 +0000 http://nihonshukyo.wordpress.com/?p=3772#comment-2709 Try Saga too... こいばあいのこいにやってこい。 I at first thought my father was obsessed with love. He was merely wanting me to feed the fish. It is funny that you mentioned your you were used to feminine speech. I read somewhere that many foreign guys who learnt their Japanese from their parteners use feminine speech, and so they sound to the Japanese to be gay. When I heard that up masculined up my Japanese and my wife got angry at me because I wasn't being polite she thought. My problem is I learnt my Japanese from mainly people over 60, so people think I am about that age when I talk on the phone (apparently...). Go figure. By the way my first stint in Japan was in Kansai, so nice to think of my furusato. Thanks Try Saga too…
こいばあいのこいにやってこい。
I at first thought my father was obsessed with love.
He was merely wanting me to feed the fish.

It is funny that you mentioned your you were used to feminine speech. I read somewhere that many foreign guys who learnt their Japanese from their parteners use feminine speech, and so they sound to the Japanese to be gay. When I heard that up masculined up my Japanese and my wife got angry at me because I wasn’t being polite she thought. My problem is I learnt my Japanese from mainly people over 60, so people think I am about that age when I talk on the phone (apparently…). Go figure.

By the way my first stint in Japan was in Kansai, so nice to think of my furusato.
Thanks

]]> By: Jishin http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2009/05/19/a-look-a-kansai-dialect/#comment-2707 Jishin Tue, 19 May 2009 19:03:10 +0000 http://nihonshukyo.wordpress.com/?p=3772#comment-2707 A much more difficult dialect to learn is that of Kagoshima in the south of Kyushu. Their dialect contains many different words unheard of in other parts of Japan which was very useful in protecting the province from spies during the Satsuma rebellion against the Meiji government. A much more difficult dialect to learn is that of Kagoshima in the south of Kyushu. Their dialect contains many different words unheard of in other parts of Japan which was very useful in protecting the province from spies during the Satsuma rebellion against the Meiji government.

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