Oideyasu! Please take off your shoes.
standard Japanese
Kyoto dialect
Welcome (informal)
Irasshai!
Oide-yasu (at the top of this page)
Welcome (somewhat polite)
Irasshaimase!
O-koshi-yasu
Thank you (polite)
Doumo arigatou gozaimashita
Ooki-ni arigatou-san doshita
Good morning
Ohayou gozaimasu
Ohayou-san dosu
Goodbye
Sayonara
Sainara
Good luck / keep up the good work
Ganbatte kudasai!
O-kibari-yasu!
Please
kudasai
o-kure-yasu
(after a meal)
Gochisou-sama-deshita.
Gochisou-san-doshita. Reply: Yoroshuu-agari
Seems like I'll have quite a few problems understanding anyone who's using kyoto-ben.
Posted by: pocky on May 9, 2003 01:01 AMOh, post more if you ever get around to it!
Posted by: Clarissa on May 9, 2003 06:54 AMI have to warn you that this is hardcore kyoto-ben. The influence of Osaka-based TeeVee is so great that most people speak generalized Kansai-ben, which does, however, use the kyoto "-hen" ending for negative verb forms instead of "-nai". Many will identify Kyoto-ben with chatty old ladies sprinkling water on the street outside their homes.
Posted by: nils on May 9, 2003 09:29 AMman, h/c kyoto-ben is jacked up~ I've been speaking tokyo-ben for about 8 years and it still fathoms me how much dialects can change in Japan just by going 50 miles outside of tokyo...
Posted by: socal dave on May 9, 2003 01:05 PMDo you actually say "Tokyo-ben"? I thought it was just "hyoujungo", standard Japanese.
Posted by: nils on May 9, 2003 05:44 PMI've always said Tokyo-ben (because I've always known it as that) but then again, most people I know there infrequently correct me if the words I'm using will get me by~ nuts to that.
Posted by: socal dave on May 10, 2003 03:02 PMI lived in Kyoto for a year, and the main thing I heard was "o-ki ni" for thank you and "oideyasu" (the more traditional the shop, the more likely you are to hear it) Those seem to be pretty common - the others I just heard about, but never heard anyone say
Posted by: Kismet on October 30, 2003 07:18 AMi think hyoujungo and tokyo-ben is different...tokyo-ben is just another variation of the proper language...deshou???^^
Posted by: ee sef on December 3, 2003 07:18 PMI'm really in to learn Kyoto's dialect.
Althought I've been speaking the Tokyo one, I've recently started to talk with Kyoto's, but I need a deeper knowledge of it.
This site and a person I know from Kyoto have helped me a lot.
I think it's much more easier the Kyoto dialect, and it's also more charming.
Are there several dialects of Japanese? If there is...I didn't know that!! Is Kyoto-Ben considered proper language by many Japanese?? I would not want to offend any Nihonjin who doesn't consider Kyoto-Ben as proper....Someone tell me something....
Posted by: Aaron George on December 15, 2005 08:06 AMThis site is great! Thanks for compiling the info--do you--does anyone--know what "Ara!" would be in Kyoto-ben?
Posted by: Seventeen Reasons on March 31, 2006 07:59 AMA character from a japanese animation called "Mai Hime" talked in kyoto-ben
o.o quite a smooth and intersting dialect it is.
Posted by: Harp on June 22, 2006 06:50 AM
