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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5848 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 19 16 February 2012 at 5:01pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
My personal wish is to do such a language quiz in Danish. So if you could create this one, I would be very grateful! Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 16 February 2012 at 5:02pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Micoh Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5742 days ago 13 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 10 of 19 16 February 2012 at 8:12pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Danish sounds like it would be a fun one to make! I'll definitely look into that.
As for now, I'm experimenting with a "conversation quiz". I just made a German one to see how it goes. If you guys like this type of quiz, then I'd certainly be willing to try to make some more in other languages (although I might need some help with some of the more colloquial phrases). The conversation quiz is pretty short at the moment since I'm just trying it out and I couldn't make the answers too long since I'd have to input a ton of different variations. Anyways, here it is! German Convo By the way, all answers are in the informal case! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5416 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 11 of 19 16 February 2012 at 8:53pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Excellent format. I do believe you've stumbled upon greatness.
Obviously conversations are fluid, organic, and constantly shifting, but this is a great template for someone new to the language to get a foundation of some of the basic stock phrases from which to then build upon. Bravo. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6062 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 12 of 19 17 February 2012 at 4:15am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Actually, it's quite common to say (and, in an informal context, to write) the days without "-feira". @Micoh: Great quizzes! If I may make a suggestion, it would be nice to allow some alternative ways of writing the expressions in Portuguese (I've seen you've done it with other languages - I tested). In the end, only one version appears, but to allow a couple of versions would enrich it. For instance: in German, I tested "Sonnabend" for Saturday and your software accepted it. Nice! But when I wrote "chamo-me" for "My name is..." in Portuguese the software did not accept it. In the end, it took me more time to complete the Portuguese version than, for instance, the German one. :p But this is just a small suggestion. I really liked the quizzes. Edited by Luso on 17 February 2012 at 4:30am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 13 of 19 17 February 2012 at 7:18am | IP Logged | ||||||||
and people do write mon, tue, fri in English. but nobody would test it like that in a beginners' quiz. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6062 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 14 of 19 19 February 2012 at 3:26am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I know, but those are written abbreviations. No one would say "mon" in English, whereas we say "segunda" and may even write (informally, of course) "2ª". I'm not suggesting that the software should accept "2ª" any more than it should "mon". But if you come to a Lusophone country and you say you're going to do something "segunda" or "na segunda", people will accept it, because that's the way we speak. Edited by Luso on 19 February 2012 at 3:37am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Micoh Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5742 days ago 13 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 15 of 19 26 May 2013 at 6:55pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I just wanted to resurrect an old thread since I got inspired to make some more of
these Sporcle quizzes from last year! Plus, I thought it might be fun for some of the people who missed the first batch. Here are some new ones: Polish Esperanto Danish Oh, and here's one of my original "guess that language" quizzes that everyone here might enjoy too: One Language is Never Enough If anyone has some other language basics quizzes they'd like to see, just let me know and I'll try my best! EDIT: Just added Russian too! Edited by Micoh on 28 May 2013 at 6:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Zomxilla Newbie New Zealand Joined 4214 days ago 24 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 16 of 19 30 May 2013 at 6:21am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Love it! I used the Mandarin one.
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