Friday, April 13, 2007

Language quiz No. 1

No. of participants: 15

From 10 countries: Belorussia, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Indonesia, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine

Languages played: 32

In the following order: Spanish, English, Portuguese, Greek, French, German, Chinese, Polish, Italian, Icelandic, Croatian, Dutch, Turkish, Bulgarian, Swedish, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Indonesian, Bosnian, Japanese, Slovak, Malaysian, Serbian, Albanian, Estonian, Vietnamese, Romanian, Norwegian, Macedonian, Latvian, Hungarian, Esperanto

The participants have been divided into 3 groups. Each song has been played for 1 minute, then the groups had to write down the language in which the song has been played. Languages 1 to 5 have been marked with 1 point, languages 6 to 10 with 2 points, languages 11 to 15 with 3 points and so on.

Group 1, consisted of Polish, Portuguese, German and Indonesian participants, scored 62 points with guessing 19 languages with best guessing languages from the first group.

Group 2, consisted of Bulgarian, Polish, Portuguese and Turkish participants, scored 70 points with guessing 20 languages with best guessing languages from third, fifth and sixth group.

Group 3, mostly affected by people leaving and new people arriving consisted of Serbian, French, German, Ukrainian, Turkish and Belorussian participants, scored 50 points with guessing 16 languages with best guessing languages from fourth group.

All group guessed the following languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese, Greek, French, Italian, Turkish, Indonesian, Estonian and Romanian.

Songs as on CD:
1. Spanish - Mocedades: Eres tu
2. English - Baccara: Yes sir, I can boogie
3. Portuguese - Dulce Pontes: Senhora do Almortao
4. Greek - Giwrgos Giannias: S`agapw
5. French - Sinsemilia: Tout le bonheur du monde
6. German - Schnappi vs. Gigi D`Agostino - Das kleine krokodil
7. Chinese - Unknown author: After a thousand years
8. Polish - Dzem: Sen o victorii
9. Italian - Marco Masini: T`innamorerai
10. Icelandic - Hljómar: Sveitapiltsins Draumur
11. Croatian - Crvena jabuka: Stižu me sječanja
12. Dutch - Abel: Onderweg
13. Turkish - Tarkan: Sikidim
14. Bulgarian - Unknown author: Vljubeni
15. Swedish - Abba
16. Slovenian - Majda Sepe: Med iskrenimi ljudmi
17. Lithuanian - Keistuoliai: Raudona Merga
18. Bosnian - Bijelo dugme: Lipe cvatu
19. Slovak - Elán: Tanecuice z Lucnice
20. Serbian - Ceca: Beograd
21. Albanian - Ritmi i Rruges: Kush ka faj

Enjoy listening and until next language quiz!

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3 comments:

achso said...

Wow - what a professional statistic.
It's been a fun evening, thanks for organising that! I look forward to the next one.
... oh, and the German song was very well chosen - but I'm not saying that I liked it. ;-)

Andre said...

Was without any discussion very funny and challenging!!
I´m totally supportive of a repitition!:)

Anonymous said...

Good words.