Dialect
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Search complete. 11 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Dialect".
Sep 18, 2026
Gretchen McCullochHOST
Because they're probably not even considered proper languages or languages at all to be targeted by the legislation?
Sophia Smith-GaylorGUEST
They're called dialetti and it felt wrong in the book.
Sophia Smith-GaylorGUEST
So in the book, the chapter that's about the language that mum and nonna spoke with each other, they only ever called it dialetti.
Sophia Smith-GaylorGUEST
And it didn't feel right to me to call it anything but
Gretchen McCullochHOST
that.
SP3HOST
She throws Catalina back into the ring.
SP3HOST
And then she just starts looking up the ramp on like expecting, I guess, expecting Lahaja, the Laktasis to come down and help her, even though she's in firm control.
SP3HOST
No one is there.
SP3HOST
She goes to the second rope and it's still staring at the entranceway when no one is there.
speaker_0HOST
For example, 他的言论引起了很多讨论。 It means his remarks sparked a lot of discussion.
speaker_0HOST
Our sixth word is 方言.
speaker_0HOST
方言 means dialect.
speaker_0HOST
The character 方 means region or place, while 言 means speech or words.
speaker_0HOST
Together, they literally mean regional speech.
speaker_0HOST
Imagine traveling across China.
speaker_0HOST
As you move from one province to another, you notice that people pronounce words differently or use local expressions.
speaker_0HOST
Those regional ways of speaking are called 方言.
CariHOST
Maybe you didn't know that the different Austrian dialects actually belong to the Bavarian language family.
CariHOST
And because so many people speak it and you probably have problems learning German, we want to show you step by step how to speak the Bavarian dialect.
CariHOST
Let's go! Wir fangen an mit den Vokalen.
CariHOST
Und eine Vokalkombination, die im Bayerischen ganz anders ausgesprochen wird, ist E-I.
speaker_12GUEST
Ja, gute Frage.
speaker_12GUEST
Ich bin jetzt nicht aus Österreich, aber ich hätte gesagt, jetzt auch auf die Sprache bezogen, auf jeden Fall die Dialekte und den ganzen Slang, den es gibt auf jeden Fall.
speaker_12GUEST
In my opinion, typical Austrian is mountains and winter sports.
speaker_12GUEST
And classic things like schnitzel.