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巨木探訪。
京都「知恩寺の文樹(もんじゅ)」(タブノキ)。
幹周りは約5.1m。推定樹齢300年以上。
コケをまとった姿にまず惚れ惚れ😍
上の方を見上げると数々の新しい命がのびのびと😮
後ろ姿がまた・・・のけぞり具合に力強さを感じます。
Hello! I am starting from ground 0 with Japanese! First, I am starting with writing because I forgot how to write and it was difficult because I am not used to write in Japanese like I used to but I am getting the hang of it. I also started to use my flashcards and I am proud of myself for finally memorizing Katakana (after 10 years of refusing to learn it) isn't great!? Going back to my classes, my listening skills were not the best and every time I had exams and I had to listen to audios I always scored low on that portion of my exams so I am listening to podcasts to help me with my listening skills and really listen to what the host is saying. So far I understand bits of what the episodes and it's been fun to listen to words and sentences I know. It is a bit difficult to start from the beginning and at times I find myself a bit overwhelmed and confused however I don't want to give up so soon just because I don't know where to start. I have resources I can use to help me out with my studies so I am going to revisit everything I have to see what's the best alternative and from there to keep a momentum with my studies. 😊
桜2025 今年の桜もとても足早でした。。。
【細かい日本語コーナー】 関西弁喋ってみやん? kansai-ben crash course!
since @onigiriforears さん's seitokai bookclub will be reading 光が死んだ夏 for spooky season, i thought i'd do an introductory post on 関西弁! hikaru is definitely tricky if you don't know any 関西弁, so i hope this will be a helpful intro for anyone reading/watching the series for the first time. ほんじゃ、行くで〜!
n.b.: i think the manga uses 三重弁, and i know more about 和歌山弁 and 大阪弁, so forgive me if anything isn't exactly representative of how they talk in hikaru!
「関西弁」って知っとるん?
in japanese class, we generally learn standard japanese, or 標準語(ひょうじゅんご), which is spoken in tokyo and in higher social registers, like at work. kansai japanese is spoken locally in kansai! the kansai region is on the island of 本州 (honshu) and is usually said to contain these prefectures:
hyogo 兵庫県
kyoto* 京都府
mie 三重県
nara 奈良県
osaka* 大阪府
shiga 滋賀県
wakayama 和歌山県
these prefectures all use a noticeably similar variety, aka 方言/"dialect", of japanese, though there are definitely differences across the region.
just to cover my linguistic bases: "dialect" can be a charged or derogatory term in english. when i use the word "dialect", i use it as a neutral synonym for "variety", meaning a type of some given language (including a regional type, a social type, a historical type, etc.). for this reason, i use "variety" much more often, but 方言 in japanese does literally translate to "dialect". no linguistic variety has any inherent moral, societal, or scientific worth.
as with any non-standard variety/方言, usage of 関西弁 tends to be heavily context-dependent. for example, teachers in the region may use 関西弁 with each other in the staff room but 標準語 during class with older students. similarly, someone using 敬語 (honorific language) will probably not combine it with 方言. if you speak a non-standard variety of any language, you have probably had similar experiences.
anyway, let's finally get into some of the concrete differences between 標準語 and 関西弁!
*kyoto and osaka here refer to the prefectures (= 府 "borough"), not the cities, which of course are contained in their respective prefectures.
vocab items
関西弁 is famous for certain vocab items (kind of like how "pop" is considered a great lakes regionalism in the us). some words from 標準語 are just entirely different words in 関西弁:
だめ → あかん
本当 → ほんま
some words are pronounced differently, or are old-fashioned:
いい → ええ
そう → せ (sometimes)
言う → ゆう*
いる → おる** (including in the 〜て form)
or, some words are frequently abbreviated:
違う → ちゃう
よく → よう
難しい → むずい
おもしろい → おもろい
not all of these are 関西弁-exclusive, but they're all very common in 関西弁!
*remember, 方言 doesn't usually get combined with 敬語 or 丁寧語, so forms like ゆう tend to show up only in the plain form, like 言った → ゆった, but not 言いました → ✕ゆいました.
**eagle-eyed readers may notice おる is the equivalent of いる in 謙譲語 (humble language). as it turns out, おる is just the old-fashioned version of いる which, in other places in the country, only stuck around as a hyper-formal form. neat!
sentence-final particles
conversational (i.e., non-grammatical*) particles may be different, too!
よ → で、ねん
ね → な
じゃない? → ちゃう?
じゃん** → やん、やんか、やんけ (rough)
の? → ん? (pronunciation allowing, e.g. ✕ 知らんん?)
these particles are all optional, but they're some of the most noticeable things about 関西弁 in my mind. when you're listening to/reading them all the time, you can get used to them really quickly!
*though many varieties of japanese differ in their usage of grammatical particles as well, e.g., の as が and vice-versa.
**see below for more details on what happens to the copula!
lots of grammatical forms
famously, there are lots of negative verb endings in 関西弁. in 標準語 we learn the 〜ない form (and the 〜ず form, which used to be a fully independent verb form!), but in 関西弁, the most common negative is famously 〜へん.
but there are others! the following are just some possible negatives!
わからない → わからん、わからへん
わからなかった → わからんかった、わからへんかった
見ない → 見やん
見ないで → 見やんといて*
しない → せへん
しないで → せん、せんといて*
also, conditional forms from 標準語 often get abbreviated:
こけたら → こけた
こけた帰るわ = if i fall over, i'm going home (real quote from my co-teacher having sat on a broken chair)
守らなければ → 守らな
交通ルールを守らなあかん = we have to obey traffic laws
走っては → 走った (cf. standard 走っちゃ)
走ったあかん = no running
and as stated above, the 〜ている form uses おる instead:
知ってる → 知っとる
よう知っとるな = you really know your stuff
the 〜てしまう form also gets abbreviated, kind of like 〜ちゃう in 標準語:
行っちゃう → 行ってまう
行っちゃった → 行ってまった、行っちまった、行ってもうた
lastly, the negative い-adjective form (including the declined 〜たい form, etc.) is also frequently abbreviated by deleting the く:
暑くない → 暑ない
早くない → 早ない
行きたくない → 行きたない
*eagle-eyed readers may notice that the 〜といて ending looks like a conjugation of 〜ておく, and they're right! the 〜ておく form is used very liberally in 関西弁, including in the negative command form as above, but also just all over the place in regular speech.
the copula
the term "copula" refers to だ in 標準語, but in 関西弁, the copula is や! this even affects copula contractions such as (what would be) じゃん*.
そうだね → せやな
そうだろう → せやろう
そうだったんだ → そうやったんや
決まってるじゃん → 決まっとるやん
because of the types of consonants that だ and や are,** i sometimes find myself using the や forms just because they're quicker/easier to say!
*just in case you needed a refresher, じゃない comes from ではない, where で is a copular form.
**specifically, plosive vs. glide. the closure for a plosive requires more work from your articulators.
pitch accent
the pitch accent in tokyo is famously very "flat", but in kansai, it's much more "musical". in particular, most words in 標準語 start on a low pitch and go up (_↑), but in 関西弁, it's much more common to start on a high pitch and go down (_↓).
こ↑んにちは → こ↓んにち↑は
あ↑り↓がとう → ありがと↓う
サ↑ーシャ → サ↓ーシャ (my name lol)
now, my personal opinion is that the best way to learn pitch accent is to actually hear and reproduce it, so if these janky arrows don't make any sense to you, please feel free to ignore them! but if you're comfortable with dissecting pitch accent, be sure to pay attention when you next listen to speech in 関西弁.
fun phrases
here are some common phrases you hear a lot in 関西弁!
知らんけど = not sure though
行けたら行く = i'll go if i can (but i don't really want to/probably won't)
まあええわ = まあいいよ
ちゃうわ = 違うよ
ヤや = いやだ
ほんじゃ = じゃあ、それじゃ/それでは
like with the vocab items, these are not necessarily 関西弁-exclusive, but they show up very frequently or are associated with the region.
簡単やん!
楽しいんちゃう?そんなにむずないやろう?みんなが「なんだか聞いたことある」とでも思ってくれたかな。関西弁の面白い点がこの他に山ほどあるから、これからよう聞き取ったり読み取ったりしてみてよう!
lastly, if i can, i'd love to be a point-person for fielding 関西弁 questions while the bookclub reads this series, so please reach out to me with any questions! if i can't provide help/answers just from experience, i'll definitely try and look up all the 細かい (nitty-gritty) details. ほんじゃ、またな!

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希望の恵風
2017年、鈴川鯉のぼりまつり。
よい風に泳ぐ鯉のぼり。
people who ramble in tags i love you
Tokyo Storefronts Series by Mateusz Urbanowicz.
Artists on tumblr.
Japanese vocabulary
圏外 [けんがい] - outside (a region, area, etc.), out of range (of a mobile network, radar, etc.), outside the sphere (of influence, etc.), out of contention, out of reach 野宿 [のじゅく] - sleeping outdoors, sleeping out in the open air, camping 捻挫 [ねんざ] - sprain, twist, wrench 仮病 [けびょう] - feigned illness 師匠 [ししょう] - master, teacher
特性 [とくせい] - special characteristic, special quality, trait, idiosyncrasy, peculiarity 栄養価 [えいようか] - nutritional value, food value
請求書 [せいきゅうしょ] - bill, account, invoice
人情 [にんじょう] - humanity, empathy, kindness, sympathy; human nature, common sense, customs and manners
いじける - to grow timid, to cower, to shrink, to lose one's nerve 根に持つ [ねにもつ] - to hold a grudge, to hold something against someone 組長 [くみちょう] - boss (esp. yakuza), foreman
ためらう - to hesitate, to waver 性質 [せいしつ] - nature (of a person), disposition, temperament, character; quality, inherent characteristic, property, nature, (chemical) behavior 正当な [せいとうな] - just, justifiable, right, due, proper, equitable, reasonable, legitimate, legal, lawful
整える [ととのえる] - to put in order, to arrange, to tidy up, to fix, to straighten; to get ready, to prepare, to arrange, to supply, to assemble, to buy
幼稚な [ようちな] - childish, infantile, immature, primitive
意思表示 [いしひょうじ] - expressing one's feelings, communicating one's intention
運送業 [うんそうぎょう] - forwarding or transportation industry
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Kyoto - 1
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“ snapshot in Japan “
Photo by Ishikoro.
Love & Peace!
月 (tsuki) "moon"
This Monday will be Moon Viewing Day in Japan. The autumn full moon is considered particularly clear and beautiful, much like the idea of a "harvest moon". 🎑 🌕
おかさん おかさん
まだ シゴトおわらないでちか
Mom, hey mom, haven't you finished today's work yet?
Wow, 3D! Have you made this!?
現象
げんしょう
phenomenon
この現象に関してはまだ物理的な説明がなされていない。 この げんしょう に かんして は まだ ぶつりてき な せつめい が なされて いない。 There is not a physical explanation for this phenomenon yet.

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Learned the word 三日坊主(みっかぼうず)today, which basically means someone who starts something but quits quickly, eg they say they're gonna write a novel, get the first two pages written in a day, spend the next day staring at their Scrivener document, and then never touch it again. 坊主 = Buddhist priest, 三日 = 3 days. "3-day priest." Pretty sure we've all been there are some point in our lives 😅
I can't believe it's almost been a year since I went to Japan and as the days go back I yearn to go back and just stay there. A week of vacation was not enough for me and I definitely should go back to eat delicious food and get lost around the city. ❤️