Which dialects would one normally encounter when visiting/living in Japan (in popular places like Tokyo, Kyoto and and so on) or reading something produced in Japan?
Answer
The biggest dialects that often come up are.
- Standard Japanese (Tokyo - What TV announcers speak)
- Osaka-ben (Manzai and Comedians)
- Kyoto-ben (Supposedly prettiest female dialect in all of Japan)
- Okinawa-ben (It's totally out there, and is supposedly the closest to orig. Japanese.)
- Hiroshima-ben (more so because of Yakuza and their portrayals in movies)
There are of course more, but these are the ones I Believe you have the highest chances of hearing during Japanese language study or TV watching
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