Kansai dialect quiz roundup: origins and example sentences included!
Because many comedians come from the Kansai region, you often hear Kansai dialect on TV.
While expressions like “Nandeyanen!!” and “—yan!!” are recognizable for their distinctive endings and intonation, there are plenty of words that people outside Kansai might not understand.
In this article, written by an author from Kansai, we present a Kansai dialect quiz that can be tricky for those from outside the region.
The article is structured as a multiple-choice quiz with three options, and we’ll also explain the origins and provide example sentences, so please enjoy as you read.
Some terms might even be unfamiliar to younger people in Kansai, so those from Kansai should check it out too!
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Kansai Dialect Quiz Roundup: Origins and Example Sentences Included! (11–20)
Reiko
- Iced coffee
- iced tea
- refrigerator
See the answer
Iced coffee
Reikō is written as “冷コー” and refers to iced coffee. Some people say “Reiko” without elongating the ending vowel. The term has apparently been in use since around the late 1950s to 1960s, and even in the Kansai region it’s not commonly used among younger generations. Example sentence (in a café): “I’ll have an iced coffee.”
In conclusion
We introduced a Kansai dialect quiz that might be quite challenging for people outside the Kansai region. How many did you get right? There may have even been some words that people from Kansai themselves wouldn’t know the correct answers to. Try quizzing your friends from Kansai or testing whether these phrases actually get understood in real conversations!