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The Great Language Game

Listen and guess the language. I gotta 550.

Shamelessly Stolen from nwhytenwhyte

Date: 2013-09-14 04:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tx-cronopio.livejournal.com
Oh, that was fun! Alas, to my shame, I only got 350.

Date: 2013-09-14 04:24 pm (UTC)
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300 for me, though I'm not sure there's any shame in mistaking Czech for Serbian. I did about the same in a couple of retakes.

What I thought was interesting was that in some cases I could distinguish the language or language family immediately -- so I could tell it was a Slavic language, even if I didn't know Serbian from Polish, say. In others, I had no clue. If the choice were Polish or Tamil, that was easy. But Tamil or Basque? Hopeless.

Hebrew, French, and Welsh were the three I was certain of when I heard them.

WoW!

Date: 2013-09-14 04:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lsanderson.livejournal.com
It really resets for each user. I missed Portuguese after second guessing myself and one exotic. Got Mandarin, Korean, and Vietnamese right.

No shame

Date: 2013-09-14 04:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lsanderson.livejournal.com
We never hear other languages unless we watch funny films or something.

Date: 2013-09-16 09:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cakmpls.livejournal.com
Tried it a couple times. I can distinguish Asian languages really well, it seems. Others, not so much.

I missed Spanish, because it was very different from the Spanish I am familiar with.

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