Linguistics Quiz: Which English do you speak?

[Second Summer]

I came across this somewhere else - do the quiz and help train the researchers' algorithm.

This is what it told me at the end:

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. South African
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. English (England)

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:

1. Norwegian
2. English
3. German

http://www.gameswithwords.org/WhichEnglish/

 

[Mr Crunchy]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. Canadian
3. Singaporean

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Swedish

 

[Calliegirl]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. Canadian
3. Singaporean
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Vietnamese

 

[beancounter]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. Singaporean
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Dutch
3. German

 

[shyvas]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. English (UK)
2. Scotland
3. Wales

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:

1. English
2. Hungarian
3. Italian

 

[Second Summer]

So it seems pretty accurate? Except of course I don't think my English sounds South African

I wonder if it was just a coincidence, but the order in which it listed the guesses for my native language is the exact order of my first, second and third languages as taught in school.

 

[shyvas]

So it seems pretty accurate? Except of course I don't think my English sounds South African

I wonder if it was just a coincidence, but the order in which it listed the guesses for my native language is the exact order of my first, second and third languages as taught in school.

I'm actually amazed by the results. I wonder why some of the replies are considered either English UK, US or South African ?

I find that South Africans express themselves more like Brits compared to Americans. The latter
have quite a different vocabulary.

 

[hungryraccoon]

Chinese & Polish? That's odd.

 

[Envy]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. Welsh (UK)
2. Singaporean
3. English (England)

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:

1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Swedish

Why Welsh, I have no clue.

Of course, I am aware of the "be" as in habitual, but since I never use it, I didn't put it in as correct.

 

[SuicideBlonde]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. American (Standard)
2. Singaporean
3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:

1. English
2. Chinese
3. Romanian

 

[Mel]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:?
1. American (Standard)
2. Singaporean
3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:?
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Swedish


No Canadian and no French. I'm French-Canadian. lol

I've always spoken English as well if not better than French, so I'm not really that surprised.

 

[ledboots]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:?
1. American (Standard)
2. Singaporean
3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:?
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Swedish

I got these exact results!

 

[IamJen]

Interesting that so many seem to have English, Norwegian and Swedish for the guesses as to native language (this was my result as well). For which dialect I spoke, the algorithm suggested Australian, then American Standard, then Singaporean.

 

[Second Summer]

Interesting that so many seem to have English, Norwegian and Swedish for the guesses as to native language (this was my result as well).

I'm guessing that more people from these countries have done the quiz, so there is now a statistical bias in the data or something.

 

[Mikkel]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
2. Australian
3. Singaporean
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. Norwegian
2. Swedish
3. Greek

And I'm Norwegian.

 

[SummerRain]

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Chinese
3. Hungarian - See more at: http://www.gameswithwords.org/WhichEnglish/#sthash.xjKysq8l.dpuf

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. Welsh (UK)
2. English (England)
3. Scottish (UK) - See more at: http://www.gameswithwords.org/WhichEnglish/#sthash.xjKysq8l.dpuf


I did grow up pretty close to Wales, so I guess that's understandable.

 

[ledboots]

That was a fun quiz to take, very interesting.

 

[Moll Flanders]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. Welsh (UK)
2. Australian
3. Irish (Republic of)

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Chinese
3. Norwegian

Okay, the dialect result was weird. People have mistaken me and my brother for Aussies before because it can apparently sound similar to a London accent. I would have expected it to be Irish due to my family heritage. I don't know what the Welsh thing is about.

 

[Blobbenstein]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. English (England)
2. Welsh (UK)
3. Australian
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Finnish
3. Hungarian - See more at: Games With Words: Which English?

 

[Andy_T]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. Singaporean
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Dutch
3. German

Same for me !
German really is my native language. And I have lived some years in Malaysia, which might explain the "Singaporean".