弁
Dialect
| on’yomi | kun’yomi | Radicals |
|---|---|---|
| べん | n/i | ム + 廾 |
Meaning: Dialect
You have a pile of twenty different things. Each one is its own dialect.
Go through the twenty piles and listen to them all. Each one is a different dialect of the language you mainly speak (for most of you, that’s English). So if it’s English, think of British English, American English, Texas English, and so on. Make sure you also focus in on the fact you have twenty piles like this, not twenty one, not four, not anything else. Twenty. Can you (attempt) to think of 20 different dialects? It’s a challenge to get that many in your head but that will help you to associate this kanji with that number, which is in the radicals.
Reading: べん
Then you come to the last pile of a dialect. It’s just a guy who says the word “Ben” (べん) after every word. How ben are ben you ben?
This is the strangest dialect you’ve ever heard. Make sure to think that, and try to communicate back with this pile, using the same dialect.
Vocabulary
Only one word to learn at the moment, but it actually leads to a lot of other words, as well.
a 弁（べん）＝ Dialect
- Meaning: The same as the kanji.
- Reading: The on’yomi reading.
- Notes: Attach this to any place that has a dialect and you’ll have yourself a ____ dialect. For example, テキサス弁 is Texas Dialect. In Japan, there’s many dialects as well, such as かんさい弁, おおさか弁, and many more. What 弁 do you speak?