Sentence examples for home dialect from inspiring English sources

(It nailed your columnist's own home dialect).What's interesting is what's going on behind the scenes.

The teacher aide Mrs Edgar did not appear to value vernacular dialects as a vehicle for learning and did not recognize a child's efforts to make meaning in her home dialect.

As a bonus, the girls talk in their home dialects ("Hougen" means dialect in Japanese) in order to satisfy geeks all over Nippon.

Can someone move to a job in another region, learn the dialect there and still slip back into the down-home dialect upon returning?

His voice, thick with home-town dialect, was weak and hoary, but he managed a few answers in a mix of Mandarin, Shanghainese, and Cantonese.

In his down-home Missouri dialect, Truman exclaimed, "The General doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday".

In a related story, we learn that the issue at hand wasn't so much that "the kid's sign language name looks like a gun" as it was the fact that the kid was using Signing Exact English at home, a different dialect than the American Sign Language being taught in the school system.

It retains its vitality as a "home language," but dialects are so diversified that the general acceptance of a "standard" Sardinian is unlikely.

She devoted herself to raising her two children, speaking a Sicilian dialect at home but only a little English.

They speak their maternal dialect at home and with friends and acquaintances in casual contacts, and they use the standard language in more formal situations.

"It is no concern of politicians whether I speak Latin, Klingon or Hesse dialect at home," Peter Tauber, a senior figure in Ms. Merkel's party, wrote on Facebook.