Better know a dialect.

[Christoff]

Here is a convenient map so you can figure where the hell someone if from by the way they speak.



Link for full-size image

[dimwit]

There is no one Shikoku ben. There are at least three different dialects, Tosa-ben, Iyo-ben and Awa-ben and they do not sound particularly alike.

[IkemenTommy]

[Takechanpoo]

There is a subtle twist in Tokyo about dialect.
If you use Edo-ben in Tokyo area instead of standard Japanese, in many cases you will be regarded as vulgar, low-level education and low income. Why is using a birthplace dialect regarded as less dignity? pretty strange.
This phenomenon is seen in only Tokyo probably.

[FG Lurker]

[james]

[CrankyBastard]

[osopolar]

:lol: Men in kanto all sound like kansai new-halves.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to FG Lurker again.

[GomiGirl]

I learned Japanese in a Golden Gai bar... what -ben is that?

[Ol Dirty Gaijin]

I learned Japanese in a Golden Gai bar... what -ben is that?

Nomunication is a language, not a dialect.

[Greji]

I learned Japanese in a Golden Gai bar... what -ben is that?

Benjo no ben.....