Can you discern the differences from up to 80 spoken languages?
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I got 600 points on my first try. I was pretty happy, as it gets hard fast.
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Of course I can. I take taxis in new york.
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Shirley wrote:Can you discern the differences from up to 80 spoken languages?
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I got 600 points on my first try. I was pretty happy, as it gets hard fast.
500. I wan't happy about the Samoan v. Fijian. Way too similar. Or Bosnian v. Slovenian, I guessed Slovenian right, as it sounded Slavic and I thought Bosnian may be more Arabic sounding due to the Muslim influence. Who knows. The other problem (for me) is the languages I've never heard of.
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450.
Not so good with the South Effate accent.
Not so good with the South Effate accent.
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350.
A few things:
If it was a woman's voice and it sounded like it was from the news, I picked the country that would most likely be cool with that. Thanks, Hungarian!
I knew too many Filipinos and Koreans while on the peninsula. If there are words that didn't end in -yo or have a clicky nature to them, I went with whatever wasn't Korean or Tagalog.
Everything else was pretty hard to decipher. I pretty much thought "That sounds like a white person. I bet he isn't speaking [language of non-white person] country. Let's try the other one."
A few things:
If it was a woman's voice and it sounded like it was from the news, I picked the country that would most likely be cool with that. Thanks, Hungarian!
I knew too many Filipinos and Koreans while on the peninsula. If there are words that didn't end in -yo or have a clicky nature to them, I went with whatever wasn't Korean or Tagalog.
Everything else was pretty hard to decipher. I pretty much thought "That sounds like a white person. I bet he isn't speaking [language of non-white person] country. Let's try the other one."
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Got lucky on at least one correct answer. Failed to identify Thai. Failed to identify Lao. Not sure I ever even heard of Shona. Never would have identified it. Those African languages all sound alike to me.
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500 on the second try. Lost my last life trying to discern between Slovak and Slovenian (so Steve would've gotten at least 550).
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Yikes. Didn't do nearly as well the second time through (450). Also tripped on Slovak and Slovenian. And South Efate -v- Tagalog? Damn! Wow, that's tough sometimes.
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