Resources for Learning Tohoku Dialect?

Japanese
#1

TL;DR: Do you know of any good resources (articles, videos, etc) to teach Tohoku Dialect a bit in depth?

I want to go to Tohoku and I just found out the dialect is impossible to understand. Not only is the intonation and sounds different, but the grammar structure is fundamentally changed. I realized that I probably wont be able to understand much, but hopefully if I learn some of the grammar patterns it should be possible to get by a bit. However, after googling and looking around, most resources I found are very sparse. They usually go over some of the unique words and pronunciations, but the grammar never gets explained detailed. I do not know if it is too much to try to learn it, since even Japanese native speakers struggle, and I know that there are many variations among the different Tohoku dialects, but if you know of any decent resource then please share it :slight_smile:

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#2

Man hats off and good luck to you lol. I also really wanted to learn Tohoku dialect but couldn’t find any great resources either. My recommendation is probably to look on Hello Talk/HiNative to maybe connect with someone from that area with whom you could learn or hear from.

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#3

Whilst looking at the various regional tv stations in tohoku it seems some of them might be viewable through hulu .
Also found some tv show segments explaining some sendai dialect

There’s a few more under the same name on youtube and a text version with more translations into standard japanese here:

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#4

I don’t know any 東北弁 but these resources seem to be decent:

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