How good are you at identifying languages by ear?

GasBandit · Feb 12, 2014

http://greatlanguagegame.com/

I thought I was pretty hot stuff and this game put me in my place. It gets difficult really fast. 300 points was my embarrassingly low score.

Bowielee · Feb 12, 2014

Ravenpoe · Feb 12, 2014

Russian or Ukrainian? ... I thought Ukrainian -was- Russian...

MindDetective · Feb 12, 2014

800. I took Russian in college, which was a big help on this. If I wasn't careless early on, I might have gone a couple more before losing.

Terrik · Feb 12, 2014

Wow--that was hard. I got 800.

WasabiPoptart · Feb 12, 2014

So far my worst score has been 200. Cantonese vs. Mandarin?!? I'm lucky I recognized it was Chinese.

Frank · Feb 12, 2014

Got to 400. Some were lucky guesses. I have no idea what Northern Nbelese is.

David · Feb 12, 2014

Frank said:
Got to 400. Some were lucky guesses. I have no idea what Northern Nbelese is.

You know, it's like Nbelese.

But northern.

PatrThom · Feb 12, 2014

550.

I don't think I've heard of most of those languages. Half my guesses were based on what I knew it wasn't.

--Patrick

Jax · Feb 13, 2014

The first round I didn't even get past 200.. All of them were languages in countries I've never even heard of.

Second round I got to 550. I can distinguish most Western European languages as well as quite a few Asian ones, but when all the multiple choice answers are languages I've never heard of, it gets hard quite fast

GasBandit · Feb 13, 2014

Tried again. Got 400. Several were lucky guesses.

Terrik · Feb 13, 2014

Living abroad helped me out a lot here. Plus, it helps to listen to the accents of the language to help nail them down.

WasabiPoptart · Feb 13, 2014

I keep second guessing myself. My highest so far is 900. I did much better once everyone was asleep.

Bubble181 · Feb 13, 2014

Been playing it here at work, no speakers so no sound - purely guesswork. Got up to 200 so far

jwhouk · Feb 13, 2014

300 here. Only missed three, though.

Chad Sexington · Feb 13, 2014

jwhouk said:
300 here. Only missed three, though.

That's all you can miss; you have three mistakes before the game ends, otherwise it keeps going.

linglingface · Feb 13, 2014

400 for me. >.>

Cajungal · Feb 14, 2014

Including Klingon?

LittleSin · Feb 14, 2014

250

...saaaaaaaaaaad

Bubble181 · Feb 17, 2014

450 now. Some are easy, some are hard, many work only by exclusion.

Cajungal · Feb 22, 2014

Yeeeeesh. Lotta process of elimination. 450 was my best. Some of them are fuzzy and hard to hear.

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