Japan is a small country, but it has many different dialects. I often get requests from people who want me to teach Kansai ben, but unfortunately, I’m not from the Kansai region, so I can’t speak Kansai ben. I can imitate it, but once, when I tried, my friend from Osaka told me, “If you come to Osaka speaking like that, everyone will beat you up.”😂😱😂😱😂😱 When I say I’m from Tochigi, many people respond with, “What’s Tochigi?” A lot of people don’t even seem to know it’s a place, but I live

Even though Japan is a small country, we have so many dialects. Some of you might be wondering what Tochigi is. It’s one of the prefectures where I live. Even within Tochigi, we have various dialects. I know many of you want to learn Kansai dialect, but Tochigi dialect might be funnier for people from Tokyo because it sounds really countryside. But a friend of mine from Kansai told me she couldn’t even distinguish between Tochigi dialect and standard Japanese. For me, they are very different. I

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