diff --git a/deploy/core.gbapp/dialogs/WelcomeDialog.ts b/deploy/core.gbapp/dialogs/WelcomeDialog.ts
index e41666f7..80258ee4 100644
--- a/deploy/core.gbapp/dialogs/WelcomeDialog.ts
+++ b/deploy/core.gbapp/dialogs/WelcomeDialog.ts
@@ -35,8 +35,7 @@
 import { IGBDialog } from "botlib"
 import { GBMinInstance } from "botlib"
 import { BotAdapter } from "botbuilder"
-const localize = require("localize")(__dirname)
-const _T = localize.translate
+const messages = require("./strings.json").messages
 
 export class WelcomeDialog extends IGBDialog {
   /**
@@ -52,17 +51,18 @@ export class WelcomeDialog extends IGBDialog {
       async (dc, args) => {
 
         const user = min.userState.get(dc.context)
-        localize.setLocale(dc.context.activity.locale.split("-")[0])
+        let loc = dc.context.activity.locale;
         
         if (!user.once) {
           user.once = true
           var a = new Date()
           const date = a.getHours()
           var msg =
-            date < 12 ? _T("good morning") : date < 18 ? localize.translate("good evening") : _T("good night")
+            date < 12 ? messages[loc].good_morning : date < 18 ? 
+            messages[loc].good_evening : messages[loc].good_night
 
-          let messages = [`Oi, ${msg}.`, `Oi!`, `Olá, ${msg}`, `Olá!`]
-          await dc.context.sendActivity(messages[0])
+          let messages1 = [`Oi, ${msg}.`, `Oi!`, `Olá, ${msg}`, `Olá!`]
+          await dc.context.sendActivity(messages1[0])
 
           if (dc.context.activity && dc.context.activity.type == "message" &&
             dc.context.activity.text != "") {
diff --git a/deploy/core.gbapp/dialogs/strings.json b/deploy/core.gbapp/dialogs/strings.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f2e3aecd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/core.gbapp/dialogs/strings.json
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "messages": {
+    "en-US": {
+      "show_video": "I will show you a video, please wait...",
+      "good_morning": "good morning",
+      "good_evening": "good evening",
+      "good_night": "good night"
+    },
+    "pt-BR": {
+      "show_video": "Vou te mostrar um vídeo. Por favor, aguarde...",
+      "good_morning": "bom dia",
+      "good_evening": "boa tarde",
+      "good_night": "boa noite"
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/deploy/core.gbapp/dialogs/translations.json b/deploy/core.gbapp/dialogs/translations.json
deleted file mode 100644
index ddc8a37e..00000000
--- a/deploy/core.gbapp/dialogs/translations.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-{
-	"I will show you a video, please wait...": {
-        "pt": "Vou te mostrar um vídeo. Por favor, aguarde..."
-    },
-    "good morning": {
-        "pt": "bom dia"        
-    },
-    "good evening": {
-        "pt": "boa tarde"
-    },
-    "good night": {
-        "pt": "boa noite"
-	}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/deploy/core.gbapp/services/GBMinService.ts b/deploy/core.gbapp/services/GBMinService.ts
index 9f4fa5cf..8ab4eff1 100644
--- a/deploy/core.gbapp/services/GBMinService.ts
+++ b/deploy/core.gbapp/services/GBMinService.ts
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ const { TextPrompt } = require("botbuilder-dialogs")
 const UrlJoin = require("url-join")
 const express = require("express")
 const logger = require("../../../src/logger")
+const request = require('request-promise-native')
 
 import {
   BotFrameworkAdapter,
@@ -47,7 +48,6 @@ import {
 
 import { GBCoreService } from "./GBCoreService"
 import { GBConversationalService } from "./GBConversationalService"
-import * as request from "request-promise-native"
 import { GBMinInstance, IGBPackage } from "botlib"
 import { GBAnalyticsPackage } from "../../analytics.gblib"
 import { GBCorePackage } from "../../core.gbapp"
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index e8fb0b5e..f1eea6e8 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -3,26 +3,23 @@
     "allowJs": false,
     "baseUrl": "./",
     "declaration": false,
+    "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
+    "esModuleInterop"             : true,
     "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
     "experimentalDecorators": true,
     "skipLibCheck": true,
     "mapRoot": "./dist/",
     "module": "commonjs",
     "moduleResolution": "node",
+    "resolveJsonModule": true,
     "outDir": "./dist",
     "paths": {
-      "botlib/*": [
-        "node_modules/botlib/*"
-      ],
-      "pragmatismo-io-framework/*": [
-        "node_modules/pragmatismo-io-framework/*"
-      ]
+      "botlib/*": ["node_modules/botlib/*"],
+      "pragmatismo-io-framework/*": ["node_modules/pragmatismo-io-framework/*"]
     },
     "sourceMap": true,
     "target": "es6",
-    "typeRoots": [
-      "node_modules/@types"
-    ]
+    "typeRoots": ["node_modules/@types"]
   },
   "include": [
     "test/**/*",
@@ -30,8 +27,5 @@
     "deploy/*.gbapp/**/*",
     "deploy/*.gblib/**/*"
   ],
-  "exclude": [
-    "dist",
-    "node_modules"
-  ]
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+  "exclude": ["dist", "node_modules"]
+}