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In 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.
850. 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 Tha…
Also, this serves as a pretty handy hint that when you're completely stumped by something you've never, ever heard before, the answer is probably "Dinka": http://greatlanguagegame.com/stats/
In 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.
Volume's been normalised using mp3gain. I manually screen all the snippets for English, music or other noise, and obvious giveaways. Looks like a Ukraine case slipped through -- it's in my todo list to remove. Thanks!
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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 :)
One 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.
and got a 522 Timed Out error. Thhbbbbt.
Got to 500 and had to guess (definitely Slavic, but had a choice between Czech, Slovak, Macedonian... yikes!)... and got a 522 Timed Out error. Thhbbbbt.
Hi 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. :)