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皆さんの国に方言はありますか。
日本には地域によって多様な方言があります。
今回は、北海道出身のフミと佐賀県出身のアヤがお互いの方言について話します。

Are there any dialects in your country?
In Japan, there are many different dialects depending on the region. 
This time, Fumi from Hokkaido and Aya from Saga talk about our dialects. 

♤ キーワード
・標準語（ひょうじゅんご：standard language）
・ぽろっと（slip out accidentally）
・自発的な（じはつてきな：spontaneously）
・気取る（きどる：act snobbish）
・〜色に染まる（〜いろにそまる：to be absorbed in…）
・平安時代（へいあんじだい：The Heian period：At the end of the 8th century, the capital was moved to present-day Kyoto. The Heian period designates a span of roughly 400 years until the 12th century.）
・十二単（じゅうにひとえ：a twelve-layered kimono worn by noblewomen during the Heian period）

♧ 理解度チェッククイズ
1. 佐賀県の方言「ぞろびく」はどういう意味？
2. 北海道と佐賀県の方言で「さようなら」はそれぞれ何と言う？

♢ 前回のクイズの答え
1. フミが最近気になっている言葉は？ 
→ 界隈（かいわい）
2. それはどういう意味？ 
→ 〜の人たち、〜をする人たち
3. 元々どこで使われていた言葉？
→ インターネット上でスラングとして使われていた

BGM special thanks：MusMus

アヤさんとフミさんの日本語雑談（Aya and Fumi’s Japanese Chit-Chat）

Episode 30：日本の方言

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Gai comme un pingouin !
- Qui peut vivre dans un froid pareil ? Avec des morceaux de glace gros comme des montagnes ?
C'est nous, les pingouins ! Les charmants plaisantins !
En blanc et noir, nous nous élançons. Et zou ! Sur le ventre, nous glissons jusqu’à l’eau. Et plouf ! Bec en avant, nous plongeons dans les vagues.
Un jour, un goéland m’a assuré :
- Vous, les pingouins, vous ne savez pas voler dans le vent du ciel. Vos ailes sont riquiqui !
Je lui ai rétorqué :
- Nous n’avons pas besoin de voler dans le ciel, nous volons déjà dans l’eau !

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Everyone has their preferred way of drinking coffee. Maybe you like yours black, or maybe you prefer a bit of sugar in it.

But have you ever tried drinking coffee with salt?

Adding a pinch of salt to your cup of coffee is said to make it taste less bitter.

And putting salt in coffee isn't new. In some countries, such as Turkey and Hungary, people have done this for years.

But a cafe in Vietnam is believed to have started the newest trend — salt coffee.

It's a little different from just putting salt in your coffee, though. Salt coffee is said to have come from a small cafe in Hue ("hwEH"), a city in central Vietnam.

The cafe's name, Ca Phe Muoi, is also the name of the drink, since ca phe means "coffee" and muoi means "salt" in Vietnamese.

Salt coffee is made by mixing sweet condensed milk with a base of Vietnamese coffee, and adding salted cream to the top.

The cafe's owners hoped this unique drink would bring in more customers, and it did.

"In Hue, salt coffee became a daily drink like black coffee or white coffee," the cafe's owners told CNN Travel in June.

And it wasn't just in Hue where people fell in love with salt coffee — the cafe's website sells bottles of it to send around the country, and now Starbucks even sells its own version of salt coffee.

Vietnam is one of the world's largest coffee growers, and has a rich coffee culture.

Salt coffee is just one of many unique Vietnamese coffee drinks.

Others include egg coffee (which has a topping of egg yolks and condensed milk), coconut coffee, and yogurt coffee.