I found it rather fun pressing the "next" button and then switching away from it and just listening and forming an opinion thus before looking at the options. Region of language was often pretty accurate thus if I wasn't able to guess the precise language.
The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?
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#32I'd love to see some stats on how others have done. Also, it would be nice if you didn't have to press back fifty times (or long click select) to go back to the last site you were on.
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#33Nice! 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.
I've been playing this game on my own now for decades...just trying to guess what language people are speaking eavesdropping on conversations and listening to radio.
I'm easily able to break 1000 points but some of those African languages (Dinka) are really hard!
I'm so thankful for this site. It's really really cool!
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#34Hi 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 LOVE this. This is something I've been doing on my own for most of my life. I'd like to think I'm pretty good at picking out what languages people are speaking but Dinka is really hard. Distinguishing between some of the Balkan languages is harder than I remember.
It's be great if there were an iOS app of this. You'd easily get my $2. :)
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#35One of the languages is labelled "Bangla", the transliterated form of the native spelling বাংলা. Given that you've used the English names of most languages there (I can't speak for all of them), I'd prefer the consistency of "Bengali" there.
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#36I built a similar thing, with a physical representation, covering US accents: http://moron4hire.tumblr.com/post/60153233552/a-thing-i-buil...
for this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Labov
it ended up in this place: http://www2.fi.edu/
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#37I was up to 800 points, and I got server error... (edit). Retried again, and since that was my last life, I've got it wrong. I was lucky though, as I got two times Bulgarian, and I'm from Bulgaria :)
Played second time, 650, and third time 950.
I've got lucky again, since Dutch was twice in a row, and few other languages.
It's cool, reminds a bit of Google's find this place on earth, by "driving" around until you see a sign, or some very known place.
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#38Just got a 502 error, but really like the custom 502 page.
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#39850. It would be a bit nicer if the randomly selected other language choices came from different language families: one of the three I got wrong was Bosnian vs Croatian, even though the difference is arguably a political construct (just don't say that to a Bosnian or Croat...).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_standard_Bosnian...
The difference between Punjabi and Hindi is also pretty subtle. Mistaking Thai for Vietnamese, though, was inexcusable. =(
Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?
#40In the sound clip for Ukraine, the person actually says Ukraine (or very similar) a few times. Also, the snippets should be normalised. Some are very quiet.