Alan Coady’s Musical Blog

August 19, 2008

Name that tune

Filed under: Aural, Blogging, Language, Listening, Video — Alan Coady @ 8:47 pm

One of my favourite games, called into play to allay the tedium of supermarket shopping, is to guess the origin of foreign languages before I’m near enough to hear the words. What’s this nonsense, I hear you read. But really, you can tell from the tunes. However this becomes more difficult when foreign nationals are speaking English, as the mixture of our words to their tunes tends to hide the traces. Try out your ear on this online spot the accent quiz.

Thanks to Omniglot for the link.

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