QUIZ! - Guess the language (audio clips)

Morlan · 5 May 2007 at 21:24

Spice up your Saturday night.

I've done up a quick lingo quiz, sure why not.

Listen to each audio clip and take a wild guess at the language. If you don't know the exact language, try and guess the language family. These are languages from countries you all know.

Reply with your answers like this:

1. Japanese
2. Polish
3. English
4. ... etc etc

AND ALSO state the language which audibly appeals to you the most

LISTEN:

Language 1*
Language 2
Language 3
Language 4*
Language 5*
Language 6*

* Already figured out by other users. Have a guess yourself before reading the answers below

Whoever wins gets two GIF smiley faces, posted via email. Have fun!

surfsquid · 5 May 2007 at 21:35

All are guesses

:

1. German
2. French
3. nope
4. Dutch
5. Norwegian
6.Italian

edit: 2 appeals most

theleg · 5 May 2007 at 21:35

those are very hard.

The Mad Rapper · 5 May 2007 at 21:40

1. German
2. French
3. Vietnamese
4. Welsh
5. Danish
6. Spanish

pyro · 5 May 2007 at 21:44

1: German
2: Russian
3: Hebrew :confused:

4: Dutch
5: Either Norway or Denmark
6: Romanian (it says it in the mp3 file dude..

)

Scuzi · 5 May 2007 at 21:54

1. German
2. Russian
3. Somewhere from South America?
4. Irish (Connacht dialect?)
5. Scandanavian - not sure which
6. Spanish or Portuguese

And of course, no4 the Irish appeals the most

El Gringo · 5 May 2007 at 22:00

1- Dutch
2- Hebrew
3- One of the Native American languages, Apache?
4- Welsh
5- Nordic language, possibly Finnish
6- Romanian

yay :cool:

I'm certainly not sure of the 3rd, i went with NA languages with a possibly polynesian one in close second, but the rest are dead certs.
The fave has got to be the last.

Jokester · 5 May 2007 at 22:07

4 sounds like gaelic to me?

Jokester

el_dazza · 5 May 2007 at 22:16

1 - Dutch
2 - French
3 - Cantonese
4 - Gaelic
5 - Danish (its definately not finnish..)
6 - Romanian

paul@ · 5 May 2007 at 22:32

1 - Dutch
2 - Hebrew
3 - ?
4 - Welsh
5 - Sounds very close to Finnish, could be Norwegian
6 - Romanian

surfsquid · 5 May 2007 at 23:35

If 2 is Hebrew I'll eat my yamaka.

doofer · 5 May 2007 at 23:58

1- Afrikaans
2- Russian
3- Polynesian
4- Gaelic
5- Swedish
6- Portugese

Moredhel · 6 May 2007 at 00:21

1 Dutch
2 Russian
3 Yiddish
4 Sounds Gaelic, Welsh or Irish?
5 Sounds like something from one of the pacific islands or something.
6 Spanish or Italian

4 sounds nicest I think.

Jay123 · 6 May 2007 at 00:22

Links are broken ..

Moredhel · 6 May 2007 at 00:23

Jay123 said:
Links are broken ..

They work for everyone else, perhaps your internet is broken?

Jay123 · 6 May 2007 at 00:25

Moredhel said:
They work for everyone else, perhaps your internet is broken?

Must be my spanish internet

pyro · 6 May 2007 at 00:28

Jay123 said:
Links are broken ..

Excuses, excuses... http://rapidshare.com/files/29704028/language_quiz.rar

Col_M · 6 May 2007 at 01:12

surfsquid said:
If 2 is Hebrew I'll eat my yamaka.

and if 2 is Russian eat a bottle of vodka, glass and all

I honestly have no idea about the rest

i'm terrible with languages

Morlan · 6 May 2007 at 16:35

Those of you that answered incorrectly have recieved zero points. Sorry

Those that scored recieved 1 point for guessing the language, and half a point for guessing the language family.

There are still two languages remaining:

Language 1 Afrikaans
Language 2
Language 3
Language 4 Irish
Language 5 Norwegian
Language 6 Romanian

surfsquid said:
5. Norwegian

edit: 2 appeals most

Correct - 1 point.

pyro said:
5: Either Norway or Denmark
6: Romanian

Well spotted - 1.5 points

Scuzi said:
5. Scandanavian - not sure which
4. Irish

And of course, no4 the Irish appeals the most

1.5 pointe agat. Níl sé canúint Chonnachta, tá sé as An Mhumhain.

El Gringo said:
3- One of the Native American languages, Apache?
5- Nordic language, possibly Finnish
6- Romanian

I'm certainly not sure of the 3rd, i went with NA languages with a possibly polynesian one in close second, but the rest are dead certs.
The fave has got to be the last.

1.5 points

I think you have a good ear for lingos. You're going in the right direction with number 3.

Jokester said:
4 sounds like gaelic to me?

Jokester

.5 point

el_dazza said:
4 - Gaelic
6 - Romanian

1.5 points

paul@ said:
5 - Sounds very close to Finnish, could be Norwegian
6 - Romanian

1.5 points

doofer said:
1- Afrikaans
4- Gaelic

1.5 points - Very good, buddy. How did you spot Afrikaans?

Moredhel said:
4 Sounds Gaelic, Welsh or Irish?

4 sounds nicest I think.

.5 point.

OK, so Romanian, Irish and Norwegian have been sussed.

There's still two languages remaining. These languages are from "countries" that we all know (hopefully). For all of the users above, now's your chance to increase your score and win those 2 GIF smiley faces via email.

I think I should clear up some confusion that English people have about 'Gaelic'.

There are two language families spoken in Britain and Ireland:

Germanic: (consisting of) German, English, Dutch, Danish, etc.
Celtic: Irish, Welsh, Scots Gàidhlig, Manx

The word 'Gaelic' can mean two things.
1. A language family consisting of: Irish, Scots Gàidhlig, and Manx, or..
2. Scots Gàidhlig - The native language of Scotland

An Irish speaker will find it hard to understand a Scottish Gaelic speaker. Just as a Spanish speaker would have difficulty with Catalan.

Have another bash:

Language 2
Language 3

theleg · 6 May 2007 at 16:57

Lob in some asian languages and id be all up in this mother