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I once had a native German speaker tell me they had trouble understanding me because I was speaking a 'dialect of English'. It would be very useful to know how
by itronitron 5y ago
I once had a native German speaker tell me they had trouble understanding me because I was speaking a 'dialect of English'.
It would be very useful to know how English is taught as a foreign language. I assume there are certain methods of constructing phrases that are more natural for certain languages.
- bradknowles 5y agoWhatever language is spoken, it’s always a dialect of some parent language. Even preferential versions of the language, like “the Kings English”, a.k.a., Received Pronunciation, is still just another dialect that happens to be preferred. You could just as easily have asked him what dialect of German that he spoke. This happens in languages that do have an official version, too — like French. There’s an official dialect that is defined by L’Academie Française, and there’s everything else. But they’re all still dialects.