It's amazing how distinguishable accents are. I wonder how much voice recognition software keys off of accent? I've a few South/Eastern Asia friends that never do well with spoken GPS recognition, but if it could know their native tongue was Gujarati or Thai then I imagine it could do a much better job of analyzing their English.
I was pleasantly surprised to make it to 800.
The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?
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#22I clicked the link thinking it would be code examples and I had to guess the programming language...
Exactly, thats what I thought too!
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#24Maybe it's just a weird coincidence but I've gotten Hebrew about half the time.
It must be; Hebrew is my second language and I was really hoping it'd pop up so I could boost my score, but sadly it never came :)
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#25One 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.
If you cop Assyrian vs Turkish first up, you might be flipping a coin quite early. I had two situations like that which chewed lives from the start! The other was Macedonian vs Serbian!
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#26Hi 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…
Might be cool to weight scores per round based on speed of selection. That will, however, favour even more those who get easy combos or languages. French, Thai, Arabic, Cantonese, Italian, etc are all very easy when compared with differentiation between Yugoslavian languages or guessing some that I either hadn't heard of (Kannada) or I'm much less familiar with (Scandinavian).
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#27I think it'd be more fun (and less difficult) to guess the accents of people speaking English.
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#28700. 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.
I had the same thing happen with Hebrew, 3 free wins with the same clip.
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#29Great. I'd also like a tutorial, which plays two languages with superficial similarities and points out the differences.