What do you know? Completely had me fooled.

It had many Japanese fooled. I've heard of 津軽弁 being completely unrecognizable, but I too was underestimating it.

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 :D

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 :D

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

Oh, this is awesome, I'll send it to my friend from Louisiana and see if he can understand it.

Hehe, Although I think Tsugaru is more different from Standard Japanese than Cajun is from Standard English i.e. I can sorta understand the Cajun people in that video if I listen carefully a few times, though I've been hearing Southern accents my whole life as a result of living in Alabama for nearly 20 years :mtongue: Though I don't have a southern accent :I but I do say "fixing to" for "about to" (like in "I'm about to leave") which I didn't even know was a southern-only expression til I talked to my northern cousins O:

Man, divergent dialects are scary from a student's point of view but if even native speaker's can't understand it... I wonder if there's textbooks on how to understand Aomori people... :D

BTW, just out of curiosity; Are accents bad with older Japanese people?
Here in the southern US, often older people (heck, not even that 'old' -- 40-year-old+ people) are nearly impossible to understand. Just tonight, I went to a meeting and there was this guy in his 50's was trying to talk to me and I just got tired of asking him "What?" so I just nodded my head and pretended to understand him :/ This is a sadly common phenomenon, so does this happen with older people in Japan too?

That was my impression too. I maybe able to somewhat understand Cajun if I live there for a while, but 津軽弁 sounds even worse.
Definitely. Some younger people from 東北 for example say they don't even understand their own grand parents sometimes.

I studied french and think it is fake french

lol You're missing the point.

Read the rest of the thread.

How so many people are fooled :p
masaegu made a really good post.