Sentence examples for in their own dialect from inspiring English sources

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We've found that the listeners identify with the stories collected by community reporters, which they hear in their own dialect and from nearby villages.

He was probably the only serious poet in modern times able to fill a hall with his own neighbours, mostly working people, come to hear him read his work in their own dialect.

So go back into your embellished ivory tower, Martin Kelner, and use the "off" button or turn down the sound when you can't bear to hear people speak in their own dialect, glottal stops included.

Because speakers aren't normally able to hear distinctions not made in their own dialect (for example, a speaker from the Southern United States who does not distinguish between pin and pen won't hear the distinction when it's produced by speakers of other dialects), speakers who can hear such a contrast but don't produce it may still possess the contrast as part of their linguistic repertoire.

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He spoke a mixture of Czech, English, & Hindu & the Russians answered in their own dialects.

He points out that they do not speak traditional Korean in North Korea, they speak their own dialect and traditional Korean is forbidden.

Many Hong Kong residents complain that they receive poor service in stores if they speak their own dialect instead of the Mandarin Chinese widely spoken on the mainland.

There are some regional linguistic and cultural differences among the ethnic Estonians; notably, the Seto people in southeastern Estonia speak a distinct dialect of Estonian and are part of an Eastern Orthodox religious tradition, while the islanders of the Muhu archipelago in the west also have their own dialect and share a number of cultural affinities with the people of Scandinavia.

And, in the same way as LolCats had their own dialect, which shaped some early online communications, so too do the internet's dog enthusiasts.

Still, tensions were high in a neighborhood heavily populated with immigrants from Guatemala, many of whom speak their own dialect and little English or Spanish.

But across this spectrum, in Mr. Trump's descriptions of immigrants as vectors of disease, violent crime and social decay, they heard their own dialect.

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