This was originally posted by Lenkvist
Hi everyone,
I came across an interesting quiz that's being conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The quiz is part of a project to build an algorithm for recognising a person's English dialect as well as predicting her/his native language.
http://archive.gameswithwords.org/WhichEnglish/
The quiz will take roughly ten minutes to answer and afterwards you will be given three guesses about your dialect as well as three guesses about your native language. You will then be asked a few additional questions about your real language situation to further improve the system.
In my case, my dialect predictions are:
English (UK)
Australian
South African
The predictions for my native language are:
English
Russian
Dutch
The third guess is correct; my native language is Dutch. Interesting to see Russian there. If English(UK) is like English, and South African is like Dutch due to the influence of Afrikaans, does that make Australian and Russian similar?
What about you? Do the predictions meet your thoughts about your own dialect? Are there any native languages you weren't expecting?
This was originally posted by Lenkvist