The Great Language Game

[Taeryyn]

A friend of mine referred me to this game, where you have to correctly identify languages based on sound.

http://greatlanguagegame.com/

I've been having a lot of fun with it, although I'm not all that good at it, so I thought I'd share it here.

Feel free to discuss:
-High scores
-Which languages (or language families) tend to stump you
-What languages you speak or are familiar with
-Anything related to this game, or similar games  

[loonaboots]

ooh, this is fun!
on my 1st round, i got 200? i don't know how good that is, though.
as for the ones i got wrong, they aren't related at all, but they sounded vaguely arabic/ spanish to me when i heard them, so there's that.
um, i'm a tiny bit familiar with mandarin? i was taking it in school last year, although i decided on orchestra instead. so, i'm hoping to learn it online. i took spanish from 1st to 5th, so i can read it a little bit. and... yeah.

edit: i played a few more times, and i'm not the best on the indo-european, as well as the slavic ones (also, i can never identify bosnian correctly).
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[chrisahari_AMC]

I can't get above 200 scream  

[Saint Sims]

Got a 500 on my first go.

I tend to be really god at European languages, save a few of Scandinavian ones that throw me for a loop.

In general I notice I have a good regional awareness when it comes to a language. I can tell, for the most, what areas people come from in regards to the Middle East, Asia, and most of Europe.

 

[Anja Sedai]

Wooo, got 600 my first try! whee

I mostly bombed out on the Eastern European ones. I really never hear those, so I'm not particularly good at distinguishing among them. I did really well with Asian languages though. I love languages, so this was a really fun quiz.  

[Taeryyn]

The highest I've gotten so far is 650 edit: 700. I've had a real hard time distinguishing between many of the Asian languages, especially Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, and Kannada, not to mention Malay and Indonesian. Korean and Japanese are easy enough, but (although it hasn't come up yet) I don't think I could differentiate between Mandarin and Cantonese.  

[lgtenos]

Well I suck, lol.

* High Score: 100
* I have trouble identifying European and African languages.
* I'm adept at identifying Asian and South American languages (because I'm Asian and all of the men I've dated have heritage in South America).
* I only speak English.  

[Katana left the site]

I got 550. I pretty easily identified European languages (I speak Russian and it has a little from all of Europe's languages.) but as far as other places went, I kinda just took an educated guess based on the little I know.