Hometown Geography
Hometown People
Hometown Culture
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Model Sentences: Culture
Local culture
My hometown is a very traditional/quite modern place, and
the people there care very much/don't care very much
about the old customs.
Every year there are various festivals, and the most
important festival is ________, which takes place in
_______.
At that festival the people of ________ make / wear/ eat
/ carry ________.
This festival is famous throughout Japan / is not famous,
and it is a very exciting/ very quiet/ quite
unusual/colorful/noisy/tourist/family event.
The purpose of the ____festival is to _______.
In our local culture _____ is very important. People
always/often/never __________. Nowadays the young people
don't think it’s so important to do that, and there
is a generation gap over this point.
People where I live usually wear _____clothing,
especially in _______.
Local language
The people of ________ can speak standard Japanese, but
among themselves, and especially among the older members
of society, they speak _________, which is the local
dialect.
It's not easy / not difficult for outsiders to understand
this dialect, because the words/ pronunciation/
expressions are unique to our area.
Here are some examples of my dialect:
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English
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Standard Japanese
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________dialect
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Look here
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anone
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hora
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But
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shikashi
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honnakendo
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Is there?
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arimasu ka?
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arudenaide?
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Local cuisine
My hometown has several interesting specialty foods.
In the spring, we often eat _____, which is made by
____ing _____.
It's difficult/easy to find this dish in restaurants, but
almost everybody/nobody eats it at home.'
There is a local cuisine in ______, and it's called
_________ ryori; it's _______, and mostly made from
_______.
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