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How good are you at identifying languages just by listening to them?
Great Language Game ^
| Lars Yencken
Posted on 02/14/2014 5:41:49 PM PST by kingattax
Amongst the thousands of languages spoken across the world, here are just eighty. How many can you distinguish between?
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To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?
Thanks reminds me of this young guy that I worked with back in the early 1990’s.
He said “You know when you’re in an elevator with a group of Japanese and they are all talking, in Japanese ? “And you think they are talking about you ?”
“They Are”
This young guy, very very smart All-American kid, spoke Japanese fluently.
He calmly waited until they exited the elevator and replied back to their utter amazement.
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posted on
02/14/2014 6:19:33 PM PST
by
Zeneta
(Thoughts in time and out of season.)
To: kingattax
I got 650, but that was hard! Both my Bangla samples contained the world Bangla or I would have done a lot worse! Also, there was one sample with an African accent speaking French. I heard the African so I thought African, but then I understood all the words, and they were French. Tricky!
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posted on
02/14/2014 6:27:35 PM PST
by
Yaelle
To: kingattax
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posted on
02/14/2014 6:33:30 PM PST
by
big bad easter bunny
(If it weren't for coffee I would still be living with my parents!)
To: kingattax
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posted on
02/14/2014 6:33:39 PM PST
by
null and void
(<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
To: Perdogg
Are the women in Iceland really good looking?There's a beautiful woman behind every tree!
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posted on
02/14/2014 6:35:02 PM PST
by
null and void
(<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
The Canadian PM s speaking English: “I don’t know — a proof is a proof. What kind of a proof ... it’s a proof! A proof is a proof, and when you have a good proof it’s because it’s proven.”
To: kingattax; a fool in paradise
No thanks, it’s obvious this is a project of an NSA/CIA/Soros front collecting info to be employed after Marshall’s (sic) law is brought by Congress upon youse suckers.
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posted on
02/14/2014 6:40:14 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
To: Zeneta
A friend of a friend was walking down the street in Tokyo and a gaggle of Japanese gals was behind him wondering if everything on him was proportional to his gajin height, he turned around and assured them in his excellent Japanese that it was indeed.
They all screamed!
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posted on
02/14/2014 6:40:23 PM PST
by
null and void
(<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
To: ChildOfThe60s
I speak two languages fluently ...
English and profanity.
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posted on
02/14/2014 6:40:39 PM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
To: kingattax
To: willyd
450. German easiest.
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posted on
02/14/2014 6:45:16 PM PST
by
luvbach1
(We are finished)
To: bitterohiogunclinger
Portuguese was a surprise. Sounds much different than Spanish
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posted on
02/14/2014 6:46:46 PM PST
by
luvbach1
(We are finished)
To: Yaelle
850 for me. And me, with only a little French and German from fifty years ago.
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posted on
02/14/2014 6:49:07 PM PST
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
To: knarf
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posted on
02/14/2014 6:50:05 PM PST
by
ChildOfThe60s
((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
To: luvbach1
Yes it does. Sounds like a cross between German and Italian to my ears.
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02/14/2014 6:50:37 PM PST
by
bitterohiogunclinger
(Proudly casting a heavy carbon footprint as I clean my guns ---)
To: Revolting cat!
No thanks, its obvious this is a project of an NSA/CIA/Soros front collecting info to be employed after Marshalls (sic) law is brought by Congress upon youse suckers.
And don’t forget about those “Free websites” like “My clean PC” and others that provide automatic backups.
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posted on
02/14/2014 6:57:34 PM PST
by
Zeneta
(Thoughts in time and out of season.)
To: reg45
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02/14/2014 6:58:01 PM PST
by
Zeneta
(Thoughts in time and out of season.)
To: kingattax
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posted on
02/14/2014 6:58:05 PM PST
by
MrChips
(Ad sapientiam pertinet aeternarum rerum cognitio intellectualis - St. Augustine)
To: MrChips
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posted on
02/14/2014 7:01:27 PM PST
by
null and void
(<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
To: kingattax
I failed. I know at least 20 words in over 8 languages and I cannot break 350 in any trial.
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