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daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7142 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek
| Message 1 of 14 28 January 2014 at 1:59am | IP Logged |
There have been a lot of forum entries, and some fairly active discussions, on issues of mutual intelligibility within various language families.
Here's a fascinating website by a Dutch group that studies this issue among various European language families (Germanic, Romance, Slavic), with a wealth of studies to download, as well as a game to play.
http://www.let.rug.nl/gooskens/project/?p=home
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| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4356 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 2 of 14 28 January 2014 at 8:21am | IP Logged |
Thanks daristani :)
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| svalbard Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 4276 days ago 5 posts - 10 votes Speaks: German*, English
| Message 3 of 14 29 January 2014 at 2:25am | IP Logged |
Do any of you happen to know the language that is spoken when you play the game and are
supposed to make sure your audio is set up correctly?
Sounds very charming :)
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 4 of 14 29 January 2014 at 7:44am | IP Logged |
That one was Swedish (maybe it's different each time you play the game, I don't know).
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| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4713 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese
| Message 5 of 14 29 January 2014 at 11:50am | IP Logged |
For me it was Romenian.
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map
| Message 6 of 14 29 January 2014 at 4:31pm | IP Logged |
I haven't played the game, but I found a lot of interesting publications at the site.
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| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4686 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian
| Message 7 of 14 29 January 2014 at 7:20pm | IP Logged |
I was first shown a list including German, Yiddish, Dutch, Danish, Frisian, Swedish,
Norwegian, Faroese and Icelandic, and eventually selected for...Danish. It's a 100% aural
test, no written text. Probably the only language where I had no chance (though give me
Faroese, and I just might change my mind).
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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4666 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali
| Message 8 of 14 30 January 2014 at 7:46pm | IP Logged |
I got Polish
my oral comprehension result: 2/12
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