Can you identify languages by sound alone?

[Recursion]

http://greatlanguagegame.com/guess/

This is pretty hard...

[Make7]

1. I think you need to remove the 'guess/' part of the link...

... I get a 405 Method Not Allowed error in FireFox.
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I guess I can sort of identify languages by sound - I got a score of 400 on my first try. Not overly impressive, I wonder what others will get their first round...

[jakeXT]

2. 550 My last mistake was not to take Malay /nt

[NuclearDem]

3. Man, that's a toughie.

It's a little easier if you're familiar with language families, vocabulary, and alphabets though.

[yuiyoshida]

4. Final score: 550

I knew pretty much all the Asian accents, which surprised me. I thought maybe hearing Cantonese and Mandarin, I would hear similarities but they are kind of different. I seem to have a fairly good ear, and yes I got Malaysian!

[Art_from_Ark]

5. I can easily distinguish between Korean, Mandarin and Cantonese

(and of course, Japanese) since I've often heard them spoken here in Japan, but some of those other Asian languages were really tough, especially the ones I'd never heard, or heard of. I can also distinguish among most major Western European languages, but Polish sounds like Russian to my untrained ear, and I have no idea what Latvian or Slovak are supposed to sound like. Nor do I have any idea what Croatian is supposed to sound like, or Tamil, or Assyrian, or Bengali, or ...

[Skittles]

6. I will tell you something interesting I have learned

as someone who has to sometimes connect offshore folk to offshore folk, people do not recognize their own accent - I have several times interrupted a tortured bad English conversation to instruct, for example, "go ahead and speak Portuguese and clue me in as you progress"

[Paulie]

7. Not quite... The correct answer was Scottish Gaelic Final score: 500

Scottish Gaelic, my bane.