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Hey look,
I found this book called Kinky Japanese.

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I guess this is all Hentai stuff or 
something.

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Hey guys,
today I'm going to answer a question 

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that I wanted to ask them that a lot of 
people who are beginners at Japanese 

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often asking it's should I learn a 
Japanese dialect from the beginning or 

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should I just focus on the standard 
language in my answer to that is 

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basically you should focus on the 
standard language.

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Before I came to Japan,
I was planning to come to the kinky 

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region or the Kansai region.
This is also known,

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that's the area around Osaka and Kyoto 
and Kobe.

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I was planning to come to this region 
already.

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So I knew that I would be encountering 
the local dialect.

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So I bought this book because I wanted 
to know some of the dialect beforehand 

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and then I got here and I'll tell you my
experience and what happened once I got 

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here.
Basically,

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I think you should focus on the standard
language,

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um,
because because the dialects are just 

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not really a big deal in Japan anymore 
with the Japanese language,

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they were like 100 years ago,
you know,

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the dialects were quite different than 
people would have to try really hard to 

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communicate with speakers from other 
dialects.

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But now basically everyone speaks 
standard Japanese with some components 

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of the dialect,
but they've become much more standard in

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recent generations,
you know,

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through education and through,
uh,

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the media,
the national media that's based in 

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Tokyo.
People are learning the standard 

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language and that's becoming the model 
that they,

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they copy.
So the exceptions are when you meet 

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elderly people,
they'll often speak like a heavier 

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dialect and they might say a lot of 
dialect words.

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When a younger person would use the 
standard words,

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uh,
it's also true sometimes in working 

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class neighborhoods or with less 
educated people and also deeper in the 

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countryside,
you will hear more of the dialect as 

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well.
But basically with the younger 

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generations that mainstream Japanese 
people,

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they speak mostly the standard language 
with some bits of the dialect mixed in.

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So it's not really essential that you 
learn those bits,

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uh,
it's more essential that you learned the

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foundation of Japanese have standard 
Japanese and then once you're here you 

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will just,
you'll pick up some of the elements of 

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the dialect from your environment and 
through your casual interactions.

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So it's not really critical that you 
study it.

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You don't have to avoid the dialect,
like,

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I bought this book,
but I use this just basically,

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uh,
just as a supplement just for fun just 

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to,
just to get familiar with the bit of the

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dialect before I came here.
And it was good.

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It was a good idea because once I got 
here,

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I understood those dialect elements when
I heard them.

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But that's just as an extra supplement 
for fun and for familiarization,

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uh,
I would focus on the standard language.

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So the direction,
not a big deal.

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That's one thing.
A second reason is that people will just

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tend to speak to you and standard 
Japanese anyway because you're a 400 

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learning Japanese.
So they will simplify and standardize 

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their language to try to help you.
So you won't hear the dialect being 

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spoken to you directly,
all that often,

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unless it's like an elderly person or 
maybe someone in the countryside or 

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whatever,
but most people will speak to you in 

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standard language and wherever you go,
if you speak the standard language,

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they'll be able to speak it back to you,
unless it's one of those types of people

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I mentioned they might not be able to 
with that said,

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it's a good idea to learn some of the 
dialect before you come here and to 

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familiarize yourself with it just 
passively.

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You don't have to practice producing the
dialects or I'm getting fluent and using

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the dialect.
You don't have to do that.

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You just a book like this,
which just basically introduces some of 

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the words and shows them in context is 
good just just for passive learning.

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So you'll know it when you hear it.
And then over time as you live in that 

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location,
you will incorporate some of those 

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elements of the dialect into your 
natural speech in the right situations.

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Right?
Uh,

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so just just do that.
Focus on the standard language and have 

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some fun learning a bit of the dialect 
and over time it will become part of 

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your Japanese.
So that's my advice.

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I hope that's helpful.
Alright,

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talk to you later.
Bye.