in your country, how many dialects is known to you?!

If someone speaks to me in Bisaya, I can understand it. BUT I can't reply to that person in the same dialect. I'll have converse with that person either in English or in Filipino. I'd like to learn how to speak Bisaya since I frequent provinces in the area for vacations. It's a plus because if you're buying souvenirs, the vendors can trick you. :D

Isn't the Philippines an archipelago ( a group of many islands in a large body of water ) - made of 1,107 islands on high tides and 1,111 on low tides (right?). I spent my first couple of years there - then moved to California. I know how to speak Kapampangan. But not very fluent in tagalog, though I can understand. I just can't string words together so that they'd make sense. Here in the States - we all speak English. Interesting enough, the accent changes depending on where you are. And then the slang is also different depending on where you are. It's still English though! =P

Hey i'm from India. And here in India there are over 1000 dialects. No i'm not kidding. Theres 1652 dialects to be exact. As you can see its impossible to learn all the dialects. i just know abt 4 of these dialects. One is the national language and then there's my province language and then 2 of neighboring province languages. I really want to learn more languages but its impossible to learn all the dialects here.

There are a lot of dialects in China. Mandarin is the formal language. My own dialect is Cantonese. And besides Cantonese and Mandarin, I don't know another dialects. I love China

hi,in china, there are a lots of dialects spoken language,mandarin is the official language.all of us need to learn at school when we was born. but for dialects, it is too many,some city, only one city there are more than three dialects, if three people come from different village, but in the same city, there don't know what were they said.it is interesting.

yes. there are many dialects in my country. i can speak 3 dialects, the national language, and the international language. all in all are 5,..it is nice to learn others language.

Hi jhe, if I'm not mistaken, Philippines is a country made up of more than a thousand of islands. I haven't been to your country yet. As what I know, it's a wonderful country which is famous of its natural and fascinating beaches. Just same as yours, I live in a multi racial country as well. Other than my own dialect Hainan from my dad and Cantonese from my mom. I know to speak Fujian, Hakga, Malay as well. Yeah, if I have chance definitely I will try to learn more dialect. It's really convenient to understand and can talk with different dialects, so that we could communicate and have mutual interaction with others well. Happy posting