I already understand Kansai and Standard Japanese. I have a friend who lives in Nagoya and her Nagoya accent is similar to my Kiwi accent. She never taught me Nagoya-ben, I’m assuming its because there are Nagoya words that are swear words in most prefectures (like ちんちん=hot temperature in Nagoya-ben) and she doesn’t encourage swearing. Nagoya is an uncommon dialect. I think she doesn’t want me using Nagoya-ben words with Japanese people (not from Nagoya)as she doesn’t want me getting off-side with people because they think i’m swearing when i’m not. Like how are people outside of Aichi supposed to know that i’m not swearing when the Nagoya-ben dialect has many words that sound like d!ck, not to mention that Nagoya-ben is uncommon.
I want to learn Nagoya-ben because…
\-accent is similar to mine-
want to challenge myself
\-it’s a cool dialect
\-want to visit Nagoya and spend time with my friend there
This leads me back to my question, is Nagoya-ben hard to learn?