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WHAT IS DIALECT

Dialect is the language that the local people speak.  It is actually broken English.  Dialect is not however, a second language but a way of expression that the local people use in their day to day communicating.   

While speaking dialect one can pick up words that are used in proper English.  The thing that makes dialect what it is, is the grammatical distortion for standard sentence construction, subject and verb agreement, the proper pronouncing of words and the bad usage of singular and plural.

"Learn dialect" is intended to bridge the gap of communication between natives and foreigners.  Very often, wrong direction or information is followed because the foreigner tries to communicate with the local person who fines it very difficult to understand what is said by the local person, and to avoid asking over and over again, what was said pretends to have understood, or misunderstood what her/she heard and therefore ends up miss-led.

What we are hoping to do is to help correct this situation be posting these local words and term used with what they actually mean in proper English so that the visitor would be able to understand what the local is saying and hence improve the communication process.

It is our hope that this will really go a long way to help in the tourism sector of our country.