Yuri
I grew up in a small town in Hokkaido, the northernmost island in Japan. There are varieties of dialects within the island, but when people say ‘Hokkaido dialect’, they usually mean the dialect spoken in the biggest city in Hokkaido (Sapporo). In this blog post, ‘standard Japanese’ refers to the Japanese language spoken in Tokyo, ‘Hokkaido dialect’ refers to a dialect spoken in Sapporo, and ‘my dialect’ refers to a dialect spoken in my hometown.
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