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Languages can reveal a lot with just a few words – but can you tell which one you’re looking at? 🔤
In this quiz, you’ll travel across continents without leaving your seat. From familiar European languages like Spanish, French, and German to unique writing systems used in Japanese, Arabic, and Korean, every question is a chance to test your instincts. Some answers will jump out at you immediately, while others may have you changing your mind at the very last second.
Don’t worry if you aren’t multilingual. You don’t need to speak these languages fluently to succeed. Sometimes it’s all about recognizing a unique alphabet, spotting familiar words, or trusting your gut when faced with a tricky phrase.
So, how sharp are your linguistic instincts? Can you tell Portuguese from Spanish, Swedish from Norwegian, or Dutch from German? There’s only one way to find out. Challenge yourself, learn something new, and see if you have what it takes to become the ultimate language detective! 🕵️
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Apatheist 8 hours ago
Pure guesswork, making it pointless. If you don't know the languages, you'll have hardly any chance of splitting Thai from Vietnamese, or Serbian from Croatian; far better from a quiz point of view, to have regionally separate ones (eg Thai / Swahili/ Maori/ Hindi) - but there's a danger of making it too easy, so perhaps it's not the best subject for a quiz.
Ace 7 hours ago
Yeah, most of them pointless, with no reference point. I did manage to sort the Afrikaans from the Dutch, but only half of the Swedish/Danish/Norwegian ones. The Balkan/Slavic ones perhaps annoyed me most, given that up until only a relatively few years ago their languages were officially the same and had been for 50 years, and many of the lexical differences between Serbian, Croatian and the other variants were almost artificially reintroduced in a conscious effort to try and separate them.
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Lara Verne 7 hours ago
Some can be easily guessed from alphabet or special letters, but some languages are similar and use the same alphabet, so if you don't know at least one of them, it's pretty difficult to distinguish one from another. Like Norwegian and Swedish
Apatheist 8 hours ago
Pure guesswork, making it pointless. If you don't know the languages, you'll have hardly any chance of splitting Thai from Vietnamese, or Serbian from Croatian; far better from a quiz point of view, to have regionally separate ones (eg Thai / Swahili/ Maori/ Hindi) - but there's a danger of making it too easy, so perhaps it's not the best subject for a quiz.
Ace 7 hours ago
Yeah, most of them pointless, with no reference point. I did manage to sort the Afrikaans from the Dutch, but only half of the Swedish/Danish/Norwegian ones. The Balkan/Slavic ones perhaps annoyed me most, given that up until only a relatively few years ago their languages were officially the same and had been for 50 years, and many of the lexical differences between Serbian, Croatian and the other variants were almost artificially reintroduced in a conscious effort to try and separate them.
Load More Replies... Lara Verne 7 hours ago
Some can be easily guessed from alphabet or special letters, but some languages are similar and use the same alphabet, so if you don't know at least one of them, it's pretty difficult to distinguish one from another. Like Norwegian and Swedish
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