This ppt will help you to understand why local vernacular is important to know

2. Do You Realize It?

3. One Special Situation
Sometimes you hear the speaker suddenly
desires to saturate normal speech with words
and expressions belonging to their local
vernacular, which may or may not be your
own.

4. Vernacular (noun)
The language spoken in a particular area or by
a particular group, especially one that is not
the official or written language.

6. • Trying to find "regular equivalents in English"
was of no use as both sides insisted that I give
the most precise interpretation with all the
Cossack distinctiveness retained.
• The writer came to the ataman’s house.
Mulberry  tyutinas
Balkon  corridor

7. • A vernacular tongue is, in effect, a very
powerful means of self-determination.
• Officially, there are 100 ethnic groups in
Russia.

9. All local dialectical words and expressions can be divides to
three categories:
• Common Russian words used with different meanings.
 confusing
• Words derived from common Russian roots and
retaining the meaning of the latter.
 the words can be guessed
• Words which are practically unknown to the Russian
language but are borrowed from other languages, such
as Ukrainian, Kalmyk, Armenian and especially Turkic
languages (this lexical layer reflects the history of the
Cossacks and the way the community was formed)
 extremely difficult