This paper is based on the results of a survey created to investigate how Croatian students perceive three different strategies of dialect translation, so the results could potentially be used as an additional tool in the process of dialect translation. As most current research tends to focus on the translators’ decision-making process, this study is centering on the opinions of the readers. The questionnaire presented to the participants contained three translations of an excerpt written in a non-standard variety and lead the participants to think about the features of each translation, rate them and leave their comments. It was hypothesized that experience with language(s) and translation would influence the participants’ preferred strategy and that the chosen translation strategy would influence their perception of the character(s). Both hypotheses were confirmed. Further hypotheses were that readers would gravitate towards translations written in their own dialect, but that most participants would still choose the colloquialized translation as their favorite. Unfortunately, a significant overlap between participants from the Zagreb area (one translation utilized the Zagreb dialect) and participants with language experience meant there could be no conclusive evidence to support or deny these assumptions. Furthermore, while no strategy was confirmed as the participants’ favorite, the Culturally Transplanted translation was one they east preferred.