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Can you guess where my accent is from?
Now this is a fun game. Developed by the Language Trainers Group, this ten-question quiz tests your ability to identify different English accents, including those from Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Spain, and dozens of other countries.
In the game, speakers from all around the world recite parts of Rudyard Kipling's poem "If," then you're asked to name their home countries.
I only scored a meager 31 points (that probably puts me in the bottom part of the curve), but the test is pretty hard. I mean, am I really supposed to know how Latvian English differs from Lithuanian English?
So head over there, get higher than 31 points, then come back here and brag about it in the Comments.
[Hat tip: World Hum]
Filed under: Arts and Culture
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Grant Martin Aug 20th 2008 11:39AM
12 points. And I got 2/3 Americans wrong. Sigh.
Secret Asian Man Aug 20th 2008 4:58PM
18 points... I also got 2 out of the 3 US accents wrong.
They need to throw some Asian people in there. I can identify their accents easily.
Geoff Aug 21st 2008 2:06PM
16 points here. What irks me is that I got one wrong from Chicago IL, the place where I was born and have lived my entire life. I think that they did not pick authentic accents and just asked random people on the street. Bogus.