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Category: Quiz questions

Name the language

26 May 2007 By Simon

Here is a recording of a mystery language. Can you work out which one if is?

This is not a language you’re likely to hear very often.

Posted in Language, Quiz questions25 Comments

Language quiz

20 May 2007 By Simon

Here are recordings of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. Can you tell which is which?

  • Recording 1
  • Recording 2
  • Recording 3

By the way, I’ve just added pages of useful phrases in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish (and also Faroese and Icelandic) on Omniglot.

Posted in Language, Quiz questions8 Comments

Where in the world?

19 May 2007 By Simon

Here’s a photo of a mystery city sent in by David W. Do you know where it is and which languages are spoken there?

Mystery city

Posted in Language, Quiz questions, Travel13 Comments

Mystery language

13 May 2007 By Simon

Today we have a recording of a mystery language sent in by Mats Attnäs.

This a message Mats got on his answering machine a few years ago in a language he hasn’t been able to identify. He thinks it might be one of the languages spoken in India.

Can you help?

Posted in Language, Quiz questions20 Comments

Name the language

12 May 2007 By Simon

Here’s a recording of a mystery language.

Can you work out which language it is and what it means?

Posted in Language, Quiz questions5 Comments

Where in the world?

6 May 2007 By Simon

Here’s a photo of a mystery city. Do you know where it is, and which languages are spoken there?

Photo of mystery capital city

Posted in Language, Quiz questions7 Comments

Language quiz – Arabic

5 May 2007 By Simon

Here are some recordings of people for a number of different countries speaking Arabic. Can you work out where they’re from and what types of Arabic they’re speaking?

  • Recording 1
  • Recording 2
  • Recording 3
  • Recording 4
  • Recording 5
Posted in Arabic (العربية), Language, Quiz questions17 Comments

Where in the world?

29 April 2007 By Simon

Here is a photo of the capital of a mystery country. Can you guess or do you know where it is and which languages are spoken there?

Photo of mystery town

Posted in Language, Quiz questions12 Comments

Language quiz

28 April 2007 By Simon

Here is a recording in a mystery language. Can you guess or do you know which language it is?

Posted in Language, Quiz questions11 Comments

Name the language

22 April 2007 By Simon

Today’s mystery language is a Polynesian one. Can you work out which language it is?

Posted in Language, Quiz questions4 Comments

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