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Context: Ishioh-san was talking about
regional dialects in Japan.
＊東北 Tohoku region in
northern Honshu island in Japan
＊嫁さん wife
＊秋田 Akita Prefecture (in the Tohoku area)
＊ (Kansai) 〜して間なしに not long after ~
＊孫 grandchild !!She mistakenly said 孫 (grandchild) to mean 子供(a
child) in her conversation.
＊〜がてら partly for ~, while ~
＊里hometown
＊さっぱり( -neg) not … in the least
イシオウさん
(Shiga)
Q1:Which of her relatives is from Akita Prefecture?
Her younger brother’s wife
Her husband
Her uncle’s wife
Her uncle
Q2: Who is it that didn’t understand the Akita dialect at all?
Her husband
Her younger brother
Her younger brother’s wife
Her grandfather
Q3: Three はる expressions appeared in her conversation; first in
(1)産まはってん, second in (2)しゃべったはる and lastly in (3)帰ってきやはった. For
whom did she use はる respectively?
(1)-for her younger brother’s wife, (2)-Akita people, and
(3)-her husband
