video conversations - Japanese watered down?

Courtesy of the youtube channel from Chuo Daigaku, a 29 minute dialogue between a linguistic professor of Chuo University and a rakugoka about 

Japanese language, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9YBxms2EHc 

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tozan, yama nobori, hiking, mountain climbing

However you call it, the views are great. Pictures from Otsuji-yama in Toyama-ken, June 2013.

Summit altitude 1,361 meters.

[photo credits, T. Saito]