The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?
greatlanguagegame.com
The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?
1–10 of 173 posts
Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?
#2Fun! I got a score of 650. It got hard once there were five languages to choose from, and I had studied none of them.
Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?
#3Hi guys, I'm the author. Here's a related blog post I did introducing the game:
http://quietlyamused.org/blog/2013/09/01/introducing-the-gre...
Feedback's much appreciated, and if you encounter any bugs, please report them via email to lars+glg@yencken.org
If there's a language you'd like to see that's missing, consider helping out by finding some good quality language samples or news podcasts in that language and emailing me.
Enjoy!
Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?
#4One can do surprisingly well by knowing the geographic region a language is spoken, and imagining the accent of people from there, then matching it to the accent of the person speaking.
Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?
#5Hi guys, I'm the author. Here's a related blog post I did introducing the game: http://quietlyamused.org/blog/2013/09/01/introducing-the-gre... Feedback's much appreciated, and if you encounter any bugs, please report them via email to lars+glg@yencken.org If there's a language you'd like to see that's missing, consider helping out by finding some good quality language samples or news podcasts in that language and em…
I encountered a whole lot of lag. Some buttons took 5+ seconds to respond.
Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?
#6I clicked the link thinking it would be code examples and I had to guess the programming language...
Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?
#7Maybe it's just a weird coincidence but I've gotten Hebrew about half the time.
Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?
#8Hi guys, I'm the author. Here's a related blog post I did introducing the game: http://quietlyamused.org/blog/2013/09/01/introducing-the-gre... Feedback's much appreciated, and if you encounter any bugs, please report them via email to lars+glg@yencken.org If there's a language you'd like to see that's missing, consider helping out by finding some good quality language samples or news podcasts in that language and em…
Cool game, and nicely presented! I got a 250, then 400.
It might be good to ask the user where they are from (non-intrusively of course, maybe a simple country selector or IP lookup) to get another dimension on the statistics. Or what languages they already know as well might be interesting when looking at the results.
Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?
#9Hi guys, I'm the author. Here's a related blog post I did introducing the game: http://quietlyamused.org/blog/2013/09/01/introducing-the-gre... Feedback's much appreciated, and if you encounter any bugs, please report them via email to lars+glg@yencken.org If there's a language you'd like to see that's missing, consider helping out by finding some good quality language samples or news podcasts in that language and em…
I encountered a whole lot of lag. Some buttons took 5+ seconds to respond.
Yeah, sorry about that. I'd planned a little more infrastructure work before submitting it to HN. Wish me luck :)
Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?
#10Hi guys, I'm the author. Here's a related blog post I did introducing the game: http://quietlyamused.org/blog/2013/09/01/introducing-the-gre... Feedback's much appreciated, and if you encounter any bugs, please report them via email to lars+glg@yencken.org If there's a language you'd like to see that's missing, consider helping out by finding some good quality language samples or news podcasts in that language and em…
Cool game, and nicely presented! I got a 250, then 400. It might be good to ask the user where they are from (non-intrusively of course, maybe a simple country selector or IP lookup) to get another dimension on the statistics. Or what languages they already know as well might be interesting when looking at the results.
I'm recording GeoIP country and the Accept-Languages header from their request. Hopefully this generates some interesting data to pore over later. Monthly data snapshots might be useful for researchers.