I have been told by a Japanese teacher from Kyoto that I remind her of the dialect spoken at her home town (they lived near Fushimi Inari Taisha), but I am not sure when I compare it in wikipedia.
Here’s main things that make me doubt or wonder if I could have lived in Kyoto/speaking/dialect wise:
• I don’t know much about shortenning words which I do see in western dialects it’s supposed to be a thing, I only remember words being shortened for things like すげえ /suɡeː/ or maybe little exceptions. Generally I get told I say things in a long way instead. Teachers tell me things like “we don’t say that anymore, we abbreviate it now”
• The way I remember Japanese spoken uses /desu/ with the [u] being pronounced.
• Sometimes words or verbs start with an [o].
• Negative form for words or verbs ends in -nu sometimes, but I also remember -nai and -nee used a lot. I think boys and older people used -nee, -nu also older people and -nai was the more common/girly.
• I do remember words finishing in [e], such as すげえ /suɡeː/ as said before, but I think that’s boys and elders that used it. I got told sometimes the words I use are for guys and informal. But I remember talking properly at home was very important, I don’t think it was good to talk like that at home.
• I remember the copula じゃ jya, and だ da being used.
I remember these songs: Edo no Uta, Kagome Kagome, a song about a white rabbit, a sort of melody with the numbers from 10 to 20, and songs sang by the kagura miko with the bells at a shrine.
I wrote a text [here](https://www.reddit.com/user/whitepasserine/comments/11rw5ol/the_shrine_i_remember/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) describing a shrine I remember a lot and another [here](https://www.reddit.com/user/whitepasserine/comments/11rx96g/other_locations_i_remember/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) other locations that I remember.
As I said in the shrine post, I’m writing this because I’m looking for a place I lived in as a child. I do know japanese still but many things I have forgotten/probably didn’t learn either. My life has been messy and there’s no way I can know where it exactly was. I have talked with people who know about Japan better than me in the past that have helped me a little with this, but there’s many things that I don’t find information of or that I can’t see through Google Maps. There was someone who told me about Fushimi Inari Taisha and they used to live near it, so it’s the biggest possibility in my mind, but I don’t have contact with them anymore. A reddit user also pointed out Kumatakasha and a pond near it, which seems very, very familiar to me. Any information is more than welcome.
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Posting audio is a good way to figure out what kind of dialect you were influenced by (if you still retain the characteristics of the dialect), just saying.