Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Watch your tongue

Today's thing is The Great Language Game. The Great Language Game challenges you to distinguish between some eighty or so languages based on their sound alone.  An audio sample of someone speaking in one of eighty languages is presented, and you are asked to answer a multiple choice list of possible languages. In each game you're allowed three mistakes, which are kept for you to study at the end. At the end, you have a choice to share your score with friends via Twitter. It's tougher than you would think, but pretty interesting. Makes you wonder at the size of the world's population, and your own small place in it.

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