How many languaces you are able to recognise if you hear?
By icesmile
@icesmile (7160)
Romania
June 21, 2009 5:01am CST
You will know if is Chinese or Arabic or a language fro North of Europe , or maybe a dialect from Baltic countries? My question if you are able when you hear to recognise where from in that language, from what corner of this world?
I can say that i know almost all languages, where come, of course if i listen not if i reading, is hard to recognise a language when is just write.
Of course i don t ask about English, French, Spanish or Maybe your own language. 
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9 responses
@yugasini (12836)
• Anantapur, India
21 Jun 09
hi icesmile,
i know English,Hindi and Telugu, Telugu is my mother tongue, thanks good day
@icesmile (7160)
• Romania
21 Jun 09
Hi, mt question was; if you hear a new language, you can say from what country is this language? You can recognise a country when you hear a language?
@icesmile (7160)
• Romania
21 Jun 09
I can recognise almost all languages...of course not exactly, i can say that is from Finland or Danmark, but i know for sure that are from North of Europe...or if is a African languages, or if is an Indian dialect.Any way, i have a passion for languages.
@moneyguru2009 (60)
• India
21 Jun 09
i can recognise about four languages and they are english and hindi and french and chinese.among which french is the one i easily recognise.
@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
24 Aug 09
I have been listening to a lot of Croatian and Serbian music. There is a Romanian program that is on the radio just before the Croatian one starts, and if I turn on the radio early before the Croatian show starts, I can hear a bit of the Romanian program, and I'm starting to recognize a few words there.
The list of languages I can recognize on hearing them, even if I can't understand them are:
Croatian/Serbian
Danish
French
Spanish
Italian
German
Swedish
Greek (I'm listening to the Greek program on CKWR right now)
Russian
Ukranian
Hungarian
Chinese
Japanese
The ethnic programs I like are on ckwr.com starting at 2:30 with the Croatian program. That's 2:30 Eastern Standard Time. The Romanian program is just before that one.
@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
24 Aug 09
And I forgot to mention the programs I mentioned are on Sundays. There are also some on Saturdays, including another Romanian program, I think. Check ckwr.com schedule for details, and listen on line if you're interested.
@zeethegr8 (785)
• India
28 Jun 09
Well I live in India, and here itself there are a lot of languages leave alone other globally spoken languages. I can very well understand, English, Hindi (National Language of India), and a few regional languages of India i.e. Marathi, Punjabi, Gujrati and Bhojpuri.
Amongst other national languages I can understand French only! I have plans to join a German and Japanese language class soon after my final semester exams.
@marianna45 (1399)
• Romania
23 Jun 09
Good question, so, i can recognise almost all languages from Europe, and Indian, Chinese, Arabic, i like to listen different languages, and maybe for this, i can recognise so many languages.
Any way, i can know from what country somebody come if i hear what languages speak.
@prettymermaid (75)
• China
21 Jun 09
Hi. I'm Chinese, and I can recognise English, Japanese, Hindi, French, Korean, Russian, southern Asian, and Arabic. Perhaps it's because I study languages.
@Jemina (5770)
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22 Jun 09
I can recognize Italian, French, Spanish, German, Thai, Korean, Chinese, Japanese and they are not my languages. I'm from the Philippines but having to have worked with different people, nationalities and tongue, I had the privilege of getting exposed to other languages apart from English and other major Philippine languages.
I think German would be a little bit more complicated though because it is similar to Dutch. But if the conversation is long enough I can definitely tell if it's German or not.
Also Chinese has two types--Mandarin and Cantonese.
Actually, I don't think I can recognize Chinese at all because it's the same with Taiwanese.
@jazel_juan (15747)
• Philippines
23 Jun 09
Most probably, i could recognize English lol of course, French, Italian, Spanish ( they are quite recognizable) Mandarin and Japanese too are recognizable and German:)
@tigeraunt (6326)
• Philippines
23 Jun 09
i can recognize some like English, Spanish, (but i could not differentiate Portuguese from Spanish because they seem to be the same). I will know French only but i will not understand a word. lol!!
i can recognize 5 to 7 dialects in Filipino. Tagalog, Visayan-Cebu, Chabakano, Ilonggo, Ilocano, Dabawnon, and Muslim (Maguindanauan). but of course i dont understand it all. i can only speak 3 dialects. Am fluent in Tagalog and Visayan-cebu, and not so fluent ilonggo.
