This document contains questions for a student about language and dialects in Japan. It asks the student to describe the features of their mother tongue's standard language, why people speak Japanese dialects differently, the features of their own regional dialect, and how social positions are shown through language differences in two video clips. It also asks the student to identify three ways Japanese men and women speak differently.

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Name: __________________________________ Student No.: ________________ Date: 8 June 2017 Class No.: #1
1. What are the features of the standard language of your mother tongue?
2. Why do people speak Japanese differently? Why doesn’t everyone speak standard Japanese?
3. What are the features of your own regional dialect?
4. Video #1: What is the social position of these two?
What are the features of language they use to show this?
5. Video #2: What is the social position of these two?
What are the features of language they use to show this?
6. What are three ways that Japanese men and women speak differently?
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