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Language is not only words but also pronunciations, tones, and particular dialects. These aspects of a language are shaped by culture. On the other hand, culture is influenced by shared experiences, environment, and history. In fact, speakers of the same language family pronounce the same language differently, either too soft, solid or too hard, depending on the group's culture. While language is created and shaped by the needs of a culture as it changes.

Filipinos are believed to be hospitable and courteous. They avoid using cursing words and blasphemy for it may cause them to lose face. When it comes to time schedules set during appointments, they tend to have a relaxed approach toward punctuality; in fact, they have this funny entitlement to "the Filipino time". The Filipino time refers to the Filipino culture of not being on time, instead, in time. It is common for Filipinos to arrive or to start the activtity an hour or hours after the designated time.

As referred to by Halliday, the three dimensions of the register are the field, the mode, and the tenor of discourse.

It is important to understand the differences between registers so one can use language that is appropriate to a particular situation. For example, if you are talking to your friends and peers using a register that is too high, you may sound like being snobby, pretentious, or arrogant to them. One more important reason is that by using a language register appropriate to a certain situation, you can be understood well by the person or people you are talking to because you are able to use context suitable to the situation.

The variety of English with the largest number of native speakers is American English. It has 225 million native speakers. The other major varieties of English are Canadian English, Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English, and Indian English.

Language registers are important because it provides rich opportunities for language and content instruction. It is also important to understand the differences between registers so that one can use the appropriate language for a particular situation. With this, worthy and meaningful communication can be done in different life settings, thus, complete understanding would be possible to occur.

Some of the examples of language register include discourse between teachers and students in the class setting, judges and lawyers in the court, doctors and patients, and between a superior and a subordinate. For those often used among friends and peers is a casual register. This includes using informal languages like slang and colloquial terms.

The three most common types of language registers are formal, informal, and neutral. Each of these registers is used by different groups of people and social classes in society. Apart from that, the situations in which people are in is one of the contributing factors to using language registers that is fitting to the situation.

The basic registers in the English language are high formal, formal, neutral, informal, and vulgar. These are sometimes called address registers because people use them to address those people belonging to different situations in life as speakers or writers.

Register often refers to the degree of formality of language, but in a more general sense, it means the language used by a group of people who share similar work or interests such as doctors, or lawyers.