Stylistic trouble: certain forms of expression (for example, standard dialect) are preferred by the teacher, but she/he does not explain why.
Nonetheless, Wolfgang never spoke English, and his German was not easy to follow even for his compatriots – since he preferred, eccentrically, to stick to his local dialect.
These letters were followed by a telephone survey conducted in Vietnamese by Vietnamese-speaking interviewers conversant in the local dialect or in English, as preferred by respondents.
Similarly, the term "preferred language" is not relevant because, although dialects are spoken, the Mandarin Chinese language is universally spoken.
Each male has an individual repertoire of song variants within its regional dialect; females tend to mate with males that share their dialect, and prefer those with the largest repertoires.
But in Switzerland people preferred their surgeon to have a regional accent than a "standard" German one, perhaps because Swiss German is the most commonly spoken dialect.
He speaks no English, does not even try, preferring the local Roman dialect.
He preferred playing after school with neighbourhood children and learned the Malay language and Chinese dialects from them.
Berni's agile Tuscan translation of Orlando innamorato was for a long time preferred to Boiardo's original, which had been written in the difficult and less popular Ferrarese dialect.
Patients preferred language of communication will be taken into consideration when forming groups but there are no resources to allow delivery of intervention in patients who only speak dialects (e.g. Hokkien, Teochew) or Tamil.
Most irredentist causes instinctively understand that you need an ethnic minority across the border to claim as your own — hence the insistence by some Bulgarians that Macedonians in fact speak a Bulgarian dialect, while some Serbians would prefer to believe that Macedonian is just a dialect of Serbian.
