re(Search) Try to find recordings of your local dialect. What makes it distinctive? Are there special words?
I would say that one of the my local dialects is the Valencian language, as I was born in the Valencian Comunity in Spain. This language is also found in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, the Province of Alghero in Italy and other small regions in Spain. This podcast, created by L’ETNO (Valencian Museum of Ethnology) talks about the fears of the Valencian people – A que tenim por els Valencians y Valencianes? (What are Valencian people afraid of?). This dialect is distinctive for being a romance language featuring similarities with French and Italian. As a difference with Spanish, this language make use of apostrophes and hyphens on its writing, caracteristics that we cannot find in the Castilian language. The podcast talks about the feelings, psychology and meaning of the word fear; “Por” in Valencian, “Miedo” in Spanish.