I found this interesting quiz. 15 Sound Files. 15 Languages. I got to hear some languages I've never heard before.
http://www.freelang.net/mag/quiz02.html
http://www.freelang.net/mag/quiz02.html
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How Many Languages Can You Identify by Sound? Quiz
I found this interesting quiz. 15 Sound Files. 15 Languages. I got to hear some languages I've never heard before.
http://www.freelang.net/mag/quiz02.html
I see we have no takers. It makes me wonder about the diversity of Antimoon's posters.
Good for you! There are two more quizzes on that site if anyone is interested, but I think this is the most interesting one.
The one with world capitals is entertaining, although I got lost in Asia.
On which one?
I got 100% on the sound identification of languages, but 83% on the one without sound. Apparently, I don't know much about African languages (oops!). On the capitals, that was embarrassing. I missed capitals I've visited. I guess I was listening instead of looking at the scenery. That's what I'm going to claim.
What do you mean? It's true. I had to guess on some of them. I wasn't sure about Lingala and Tamil, for example.
Don't read the rest of this if you haven't taken the quiz. It's almost a spoiler. "How I got 100% without having a degree in linguistics" 1. I read Antimoon. Last year I had no idea what vowel harmony was. When it came up here I looked it up and listened to some languages that have this. 2. I guessed based on family. I looked at the choices. I've been studying Slavic languages, so that helped even with languages I have not studied. 3. In two cases I didn't know the language, but it seemed familiar, so I was able to guess based on whether I recognized certain groups of sounds. 4. There are three choices. Two belong to one family, one does not. That made it easy.
(Disclaimer: Not every question is like number 4. In any case, we have linguists and multilinguals who read this, so it shouldn't be too difficult for some people.)
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