This is because they have a different dialect.
They speak a different dialect so the communication was through an interpreter.
Each area speaks its own different dialect.
You better use a different dialect this time.
Not yet standardized, it has a different dialect on each island of the archipelago.
In Latin American this tendency toward having different dialect is almost imposed by the very magnitude of the territory.
En América Latina, esta tendencia a tener diferentes dialectos está dada prácticamente por el mero tamaño del territorio.
I mean, maybe it's in a different dialect?
In an age when few people could read and write, when each village had a different dialect and the lexicon was appallingly meager, it's hard to talk about a people with a shared consciousness.
En una época en que pocas personas podían leer y escribir, cuando cada aldea tenía un dialecto diferente y el léxico era terriblemente escaso, es difícil hablar de personas con una conciencia común.
It's a different dialect, right?
Is a different dialect.
Es un dialecto distinto.
I mean, maybe it's in a different dialect?
Quiero decir, ¿quizás esté en un dialecto diferente?
It's a different dialect.
Es un dialecto diferente.
But when you are in a different country with a different dialect - a lot of different words or fast speech- it made the process of understanding the person and her/his problem a bit difficult.
Pero el encontrarse en un país diferente al propio con un dialecto distinto -muchas palabras diferentes o que hablan muy rápido- dificultó en parte todo lo que es el proceso de entender a la persona y su problemática.