Sentences with phrase «native dialect»

Some of our students from Mexico do not speak Spanish, but speak a native dialect.

Learning her native dialect means you're making the effort of learning about her culture.

There's this sentence in my native dialect «Onye no na - ime efe?»

Dunst's performance here is hardly different than those she would portray in modern - day films for young adults, and although Coppola's dialogue does mostly avoid obvious modern catchphrases and slang, all of the actors speak in their own native dialects, with a cast blended with mostly American and British actors.

The local language is called Bahasa and is spoken and understood widely despite the fact that they have about 300 native dialects.

Not exact matches

Eugene is fluent in Mandarin and proficient in the native Taiwanese Min - Nan dialect.

I believe he was the one that had it translated in his native german dialect... after that the game was up and the church turned to outright killing people they couldn't control on a grand scale.

Her «mental illness», was an inability to speak, read, or write, any language but her obscure native (East European) dialect.

Possessing great skill in languages, he mastered an Indian dialect and preached to the natives.

The variety of voices is heightened by the different dialogue styles Paton uses: the lyric, almost biblical way he renders the Zulu dialect; the cliché - ridden language of the commercially oriented, English - speaking community; the chanting rhythms and repetition of the native «chorus»; the clear, logical, terse style of the educated black priest who helps Kumalo find Absalom; the cynical, humorous tone of chapter 23, a satire on justice.

This is the native language of Bonaire, a linguistic gumbo of Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, and African dialects.

Indulging his craving for human contact, he hails a buddy in a passing convertible in German; makes a dinner date with a couple from Como, the lakeside town north of Milan where he owns a home, in Italian; and then charms four vacationers from his native region of Germany by bantering with them in Schwabian dialect.

Several clues, like the fact that many of the cortical auditory regions responsible for linguistic and musical processing are the same and the existence of auditory illusions dependent on the mother tongue or dialect, have led investigators to hypothesize that native listening transfers also to non-linguistic sound stimuli such as music.

As a native Welsh - West and English speaker, Egerton can also speak a number of accents / dialects: American - New York, American - Standard, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Northern, and RP.

Dialect coach Beth McGuire told Slate that because Kani is a native Xhosa speaker, using the language just made sense.

(In English, French and Native American dialects with subtitles)

In addition, the students must all speak the same dialect (Spanish has no important dialects), and the native tongue must be a phonetic language with a Roman alphabet (otherwise few of the skills learned in the native tongue can be transferred to English).

I also have not found any non-Roman alphabet bilingual - education programs that teach initial literacy in the native language, even if the alphabet is phonetic (as in the case of Hebrew, Arabic, the Indian dialects, Russian, Armenian, and Khmer).

(In fact, Mandarin could only be taught as a foreign language since it is only one of the many dialects spoken in China and is rarely the native tongue of Chinese immigrants to the U.S.) But these programs do not fit the theoretical model of bilingual education since the children learn to read and write first in English and the Mandarin is only a small part of their instruction.

Native speakers will talk in their natural dialect, which can't be fully experienced with a textbook.

Most don't speak Spanish but their native Mayan dialects, said Eric Beaver, spokeswoman for the school district, in an e-mail.

Anyone speaking the same native tongue but hail from different regions will have a dialect.

Which is in its own special dialect of English; I'm a native English speaker and it's tough.

The language of the Garífuna is a mix of several different languages, including dialects from Africa, the Caribbean, and Native American tribes.

Well I'm not European but I lived in Europe for a couple of years and also I'm not native English speaker so my perception is pretty different about dialects.

It's a video of word - games read by native speakers across languages — French, German, Italian, Japanese — that get progressively more difficult as one participant points out the chaos of variant pronunciation depending on the dialect.

This infographic, created by Column Five, shows the Native American root meanings of 27 state names, as well as the tribe and dialect the name came from.

Since Siri is designed to recognize accents and dialects of the supported countries or regions, Siri's accuracy rate will be highest for native speakers.

The Washington Post reports that Chinese currently has the world's largest number of native speakers, and Mandarin is the most common among Chinese dialects.