Dialect Questions

How have people gone about identifying which dialect or accent to use (assuming here that the standard dialect of the language isn’t always default)?

for context, my (TL) has a standard dialect, and then my teacher speaks a different dialect, my family members who speak the language speak a third dialect, and the majority of native speakers use a fourth…

Assuming here that mutual intelligibility between dialects ranges from something like 95% - 100% mutually intelligible, so this isn’t a matter of being understandable, it’s a matter of whom I’m inevitably going to be corrected by…

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