Sentence examples for dialect back from inspiring English sources

Surveys were constructed de novo in English, translated into local dialect, back translated for accuracy, then verbally administered in the local dialect by research assistants who did not have a role in HCU programming.

Questionnaire B consisted of open-ended questions to elicit more in-depth responses to those given in Questionnaire A. Both questionnaires were translated into the local dialect, back translated and piloted with four community health workers from non-study parishes for clarity.

By now, the beginning of my fourth season in Beirut, my Lebanese dialect is back up and running.

Precisely because Homer's Greek is an old inheritance — an amalgam of many styles and periods and dialects going back many centuries (no one ever spoke the Greek you read in Homer) — it has a distinctively archaic quality that, paradoxically, never gets in the way of speed.

Precisely because Homer's Greek is an old inheritance an amalgam of many styles and periods and dialects going back many centuries (no one ever spoke the Greek you read in Homer)—it has a distinctively archaic quality that, paradoxically, never gets in the way of speed.

The structured questionnaire was translated into Bahasa Malaysia, Tamil, Mandarin, Burmese, and Falam (Chin dialect), then back-translated into English.

The questionnaires were translated to the local dialect, and subsequently back translated, with back translation receiving a 99% level of concordance.

Are you fluent in that language?" "Which dialect?" Beatriz shoots back.

James's narrative, related in a hard-edged but lilting dialect, takes us back to the cruel world of a Jamaican sugar plantation at the turn of the 19th century.

The audio recordings will preserve the local Bonac dialect, which harks back to the days when East Hampton was closer in travel time and spirit to New England than to New York City, Mr. Garnham said.

A Defense Intelligence Agency report in October 2006 gave this description of Mr. Libi, a burly man standing 6-foot-4: "Speaks Arabic with a Maghreb/Moroccan dialect; scars on back as if beaten by a belt or wire; wears a dental bridge; senior Al Qaeda commander; expert in guerrilla warfare".