Haha, so I guess Tsugaru-ben is similar to the US's Louisiana Cajun accent? Sorry, the most recent episode of South Park (
YouTube - South Park Season 14 Episode 11 Coon 2 THE SHRIMP GUY) parodied the Cajun accent so it popped into my head when I read this
Check this out;
YouTube - Spicy Cajun Accents (from AMERICAN TONGUES) I understood like 15 random words of what they said. D:
Thanks for sharing masaegu! And thanks to cranks too for sharing some native insight
Very interesting
Tsugaru dialect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From (English) Wikipedia;
The words are sometimes very different from those of standard Japanese.
English Standard Japanese
Tsugaru dialect
I watashi
wa
you anata
na
cute kawaii
megoi
friend tomodachi
keyagu
road douro
kendo
countryside inaka
jago
but keredo
batte
same onaji
futozu
very totemo
tage/gappa
That's a serious difference! :O