The campaign has significantly reduced the number of dialect speakers in Singapore.
Then there are literary works in standard English including conversations between dialect speakers.
In some cases speakers of nonadjacent dialects may not understand each other's speech.
This feature is helpful for speakers of dialects in which these two tones have merged.
Instructors, including native speakers of more than thirty languages and dialects, were recruited from all over the world.
Today the dialect speakers are a minority and the majority of them does not speak the real dialect.
This is the standard form of the language and is used by other dialect speakers for inter-dialect conversation.
Minjiang dialect is especially difficult for speakers of other Mandarin dialects to understand.
Some dialect speakers are unwilling to speak standard German, at times, to certain outsiders and prefer to use French.
The film features both Standard German-speakers and dialect speakers.