Sentence examples for understand the dialect from inspiring English sources

They did not think much of the fact that Jiabao did not understand the dialect spoken in that part of Fujian and seemed indifferent to the local cuisine.

But even if you listen closely you can't understand the dialect, until you pick up the liner notes and you realize that what you thought was "Moon in the sky" is really, "While the sawn-off shotgun sings / The traitor screams and dies".

Qin had grown up in the northwest and could understand the dialect they spoke.

Perhaps the Resistance needs to speak in a language that the GOP can understand: The dialect of capitalism.

"Will people understand the dialects?

He criticized the paternalistic attitude of these liberal reformers and mocked their inability to even understand the dialects spoken by many of the workers.

Mutual intelligibility between languages is not a transitive relation, and sometimes the intelligibility relation is not even symmetric (smaller, more isolated, or less prestigious groups often understand the dialects of larger, more central, or higher-prestige groups when the converse does not hold).

Prof. J. W. Gibbs, of Yale, wrote down their words for the first lo numbers & searched the N. Y. docks until he found a Negro who understood the dialect.

Michael Dibdin's urban investigator, Aurelio Zen, out of his element in the northern reaches of the Dolomites in "Medusa," struggles to understand the archaic Ladino dialect and has even more trouble digesting the region's smoked meats and gamy stews.

When she did not understand the patient's dialect, she did not attempt to clarify what the patient was trying to say (field notes).

Some village doctors mentioned difficulty in describing patients' conditions in Bangla and the TRCL doctors found it difficult to understand the village doctors' dialect.