Hello everyone, so I’ve beem learning japanese for a while, and during my language learning experience I’ve became more and more interest in the different dialects of the japanese language, but overall of them, I’ve become really interested in both Kansai-ben and Uchinaguuchi (which it’s almost it’s own language)
So I’d like to request resources and where I can learn kansai-ben, I know it’s not as spoken compared to standard japanese, but I really want to learn it
For the moment I’ve been using http://www.kansaiben.com/ website, along side some channels in both tiktok and youtube, but most of them only cover the “common expressions” and don’t get deeper into kansai-ben in terms of grammar, pronounciation and slang, these are the resources I’m having a hard time to find
As for uchiinaguchi, it’s funny but I have find 5 times more resources compared to kansai that explain almosr everything I need to know, so I don’t have problems with that one
If you have any idea where I can find more about it, or books or resources, I’ll really appreciate it
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This site gives a very comprehensive tour of Kyoto’s dialect. See the page selecting dropdown in the top left
https://www.akenotsuki.com/kyookotoba/shin.html
> As for uchiinaguchi, it’s funny but I have find 5 times more resources compared to kansai
This actually make sense though, as there’s probably an active effort within Japan to preserve this. Kansai-Ben is alive and well, so it doesn’t necessarily need such resources.
I’ve uploaded the ‘[Kansai-ben Survival Manual](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nqKw8S5g42zK4nV_LVRnJxkErlsXG9zU/view?usp=sharing)’ by Zach Adams. It was the most useful for me to quickly learn Kansai-ben.