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Originally Posted by chryuop
Are those dialects so different? I mean he understood it by just a couple of phrases...
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Well, let's put it this way.
Kanto dialect is like how English is being spoken by New Yorkers.
If you have ever listened to NHK news, well, they're in real serious tones, almost robotic. The average people in Kanto region speaks in a rather relax manner.
However, over in the Kansai region, the dialect is like how people speaks in e.g. Texas. The average Kansai people speaks relatively fast Japanese and have different tunes and tones in their speech as compared to their monotonous Kanto speakers.
Well, at least that is how I compare them. But of course, that is just a personal view.