I was just on my latest YouTube binge and came across this video of two old ladies conversing in Tsugaru-ben. I am certified fluent in Japanese and I don’t understand a word of it. Just thought it’d be fun to pass this along.
Thank you, Jamie!! My first language is Japanese, but I couldn’t understand their conversation. It’s almost foreign language! I only picked up some simple words like Hatake, Tanbo, Ireba or Shakkin.
I enjoyed it!!!
lol! my japanese its too basic right now, so I hope I didnt´meet this two ladies!
Oh dude, that is amazing. It always blows me away when I hear older dialects of Japanese and such. Ish is cray!
I like the sound of it 
Oh, yes, it keeps the sound of ancient Japanese, I guess.
If I could talk like this I could puzzle all of bachido… I must learn from these ladies! D:
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Sadly only practical use it seems would be to talk to other people with the tsugaru dialect… having never been to japan myself yet and judging on the comments in the topic… I think only older people know it possibly.
OMG that’s exactly what my neighbor sounds like! Except I think he speaks in Zu-Zu-ben… Now I don’t feel so bad for never understanding him, if even those fluent in Japanese can’t follow!
Haha! Epic! Tsugaru Ben is a bitch that’s for sure!
Sorry for resurrecting this thread, but I got on an Okinawan kick and felt like sharing this. Shimoji Isamu giving a lesson on Myaku-futsu, a Ryukyuan language from Miyako Island, Okinawa. Sorry, the only subtitles are in Japanese…
And here we’ve got the bad-ass half-American, all-Okinawan Byron Fija explaining the differences between all the Ryukyuan languages and how they are distinct from Japanese. (This time with subtitles in Uchina-guchi (Okinawan), Japanese, and English!)