August 21, 2008

Test your skills: The Language Trainers Accent Game

Accent Test

Watch videos of several people, each reciting two lines from Rudyard Kipling’s poem If [...entire poem]. Then take a guess at their country of origin, and see how high you can score.

The LT Accent Game

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2 Responses to “Test your skills: The Language Trainers Accent Game”

  1. skimble on August 22nd, 2008 11:47 pm

    32.

    The Chicago accent was not at all typical of the region, which has a very characteristic accent. I was better at identifying continental Europeans speaking English than I was someone who supposedly is down the street from me.

  2. Gris-Gris on August 23rd, 2008 9:36 pm

    Ach… - I can hear some subtlety involved…

    So you have stopped blogging? What a milksop you are! :cool:

    No, of course NOT! And we REALLY hope that you will continue to blog, Skimble! There is a chance for a change now.

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