{"id":716,"date":"2008-08-18T18:01:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T17:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/18\/accent-game\/"},"modified":"2008-08-18T18:01:27","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T17:01:27","slug":"accent-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"The accent game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.languagetrainersgroup.com\/accent_game.html\">website<\/a> I found today has a game which shows you a series of short videos of people reading a few lines of a poem in English. Then they ask you to guess the where they&#8217;re from based on their accents. If you guess correctly, it also asks you to guess which city they&#8217;re from. Some of the people are native English speakers from various countries; the rest are non-native speakers from all over Europe. Visitors to the site can also submit their own videos.<\/p>\n<p>I did better with the native speakers than the non-natives, but got quite a few of the former wrong as well. I&#8217;d probably do better if the videos were longer.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know of any similar websites?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A website I found today has a game which shows you a series of short videos of people reading a few lines of a poem in English. Then they ask you to guess the where they&#8217;re from based on their accents. If you guess correctly, it also asks you to guess which city they&#8217;re from. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}