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Kansai-ben Lecture for Spring Students
1/22/2017
Today, we had the first in a series of lectures on Kansai-ben (Kansai dialect) for Spring semester students. Our lecturer was Nishimata-sensei from the Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies.
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Make sure to practice Kansai-ben at home with your host family!