Nice! I noticed that I tended to identify the languages by their "fingerprint", certain phonemes and accents that characterize the language. It's probably not surprising that all three languages I missed were African languages. I've heard plenty of European and Asian languages, but rarely have I heard an African language.
The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?
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#12Fun! I got a score of 650. It got hard once there were five languages to choose from, and I had studied none of them.
Or have ever heard of some of them. I got actually the exact same score.
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#13I was up to 500 before missing two in a row, but then I encountered a bug where the audio track seemed to not download properly, so hitting play caused the progress bar to jump straight to the end without playing anything. Pretty cool idea overall though.
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#14I got a 650. Surprising how easy it was to pick out what was Indo-European or Semitic, everything else was hard. Only got Indonesian because of The Act of Killing.
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#15I was up to 500 before missing two in a row, but then I encountered a bug where the audio track seemed to not download properly, so hitting play caused the progress bar to jump straight to the end without playing anything. Pretty cool idea overall though.
I got 550 on my first try. It's kind of fun, kind of impossible. Serbian versus Croatian versus Slavic is just a shot in the dark.
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#16Nice! I noticed that I tended to identify the languages by their "fingerprint", certain phonemes and accents that characterize the language. It's probably not surprising that all three languages I missed were African languages. I've heard plenty of European and Asian languages, but rarely have I heard an African language.
Same here, scored about 750 just by simplifying knowing kurdish was persian, so to listen for "indian" sounds, or Slovenia by listening for "eastern europe"
The only languages I can actually speak are English, and a little French.
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#17Hi 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…
A cool game worth a couple of plays. I found myself often making educated guesses based on the speaker's accent, not the language itself (i.e. I thought of where I'd think the person was from if the same speaker was speaking English).
A suggestion: I really don't like the design of having the next question be a new browser history entry. It took me about 20 back clicks to get back to HN to post this comment.
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#18700. Missed Tagalog, Slovenian, and Amharic. Also, dude, you could do with another Lao clip, or a better clip-selection algo, 'cause I heard the Lao clip twice. Would've been good if it had been a different clip, but giving me the same clip is just a gimme. Great game, though.
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#19I was up to 500 before missing two in a row, but then I encountered a bug where the audio track seemed to not download properly, so hitting play caused the progress bar to jump straight to the end without playing anything. Pretty cool idea overall though.
I got 550 on my first try. It's kind of fun, kind of impossible. Serbian versus Croatian versus Slavic is just a shot in the dark.
Do you mean Slovenian?
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#20This is really fun, except now that i'm getting server errors (probably due to HN traffic) I can't play...