Linguistics

[Gwenno]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:?

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

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

1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Chinese

Hmmmmm, not too bad language thingy, you're doing better than quite a few real life people if truth be told. Apparently my style of Welsh dialect is easily recognisable. Sorry Android but apparently you Hwntws are speaking Scottish English - always knew that Gog-speak was the proper way to go

[Viisikielinenkantele]

Heh, this was fun.

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

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

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

1. German
2. Finnish
3. Spanish

Almost. I have no clue where the dialect comes from, in Germany they teach british english. But the native language is correct and hurrah for finnish as second guess!

[Eriaror]

Way, way off.
I suspect it's because not many Hungarians took it yet and also because I'm close to native with my English by now, so it cannot really find those quirks that help it recognize that English isn't your mother tongue. Also, despite I have only lived in Hungary so far in my life, I hear, see and use English so much because of the internet that it could almost count as living in an English-speaking country nevertheless.

Speaking of these tests, have you stumbled upon this one? After some checkbox-clicking, it gives you an approximation of how many English words you know.

[Krisse Kovacs]

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

NOT EVEN CLOSE. I was taught british english in school

I tried again because I was like yeah, even  I would answer again, but still.

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

it is getting worse xD it will never guess I am hungarian.....

[Ana Nymus]

Huh, that's really cool actually who's getting accurate answers and who isn't. And just think: everyone who takes the test is helping the algorithm, because clearly they need more non-American data points. 

[Pessi]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. English (England)
2. New Zealandish
3. Australian

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

What the heck?

[kjeks]

"Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. New Zealandish
2. Singaporean
3. Australian

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

Erm... nope. I've never been to any of the English speaking countries listed as my dialect and believe I've learned more or less British standard.
However, my English can't be that bad since the algorithm thinks it's my native language... 
I don't know anything about neither Chinese nor Romanian, and I'm amused my native German doesn't even show up. I guess not many Germans have taken the quiz yet so the algorithm still needs to learn. 

Haha, since my boyfriend has studied the same topic at uni as you, I wonder if there is a connection. Singapourian was first place with him and then came some other weird stuff. And as native languages was Vietnamese under the suggestions XD traces of german? Nope.

[AuthorOfLight]

This was fun!

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

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

1. English
2. Romanian
3. Norwegian - See more at: http://www.gameswithwords.org/WhichEnglish/#sthash.xpG1cTQ5.dpuf

the primary of both are correct, I'm not sure where the others came from. Maybe the Singaporean thing is from my cousins who have a Singaporean dad? No clue where Romanian and Norwegian are from. The only language that I know (aside from English) even tolerably well is Spanish, so... *shrugs*

[Fenris]

It guesses at Swedish but not Norwegian? And apparently, my English is like what they speak in the land down under.

[JoB]

in Germany they teach british english.

Eeeeeeehhh, they'ld like to. The only English teacher at my (rather large) Gymnasium who was said to have a good understanding of BrE vs. AmE hailed from Malta. I never got taught by him, and whenever we had an English classwork and the teacher dictated the standardized info for us to write on the cover page, it included a U.S.-formatted date (Mmm DDth, YYYY).

"US Black Vernacular / Ebonics; South African; Singaporean - Swedish; English; Dutch"
I have been told repeatedly that my accent in English is hard to identify, but I'ld call that ridiculous if "Dutch" didn't happen to be the next nation over, at least.

[Nimphy]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. Singaporean
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. Australian


...Okay...

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

1. Italian
2. Romanian
3. Vietnamese

Close enough, honey, it IS the language I speak daily.

[Sc0ut]

Guesses for English dialect: Singaporean, Ebonics, American Standard - good enough, my English is probably closest to American Standard, since it's mostly picked up from American media. Singaporean apparently shows up because it's nearly indistinguishable from American Standard (or so the test claims). I know why Ebonics shows up, there was one answer I checked as correct that was clearly Ebonics, but I actually have a hard time understanding it, especially spoken.

Guesses for native language: Swedish, Norwegian, English - not even close I've been studying Swedish on duolingo for the last 3 weeks or so, nice coincidence there. I'll take that "English" as a compliment.

[mithrysc]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. Singaporean
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. Australian

Since the site claims that Singaporean English is very similar to American Standard, I'll give it that.  (According to the all-knowing Wikipedia, one version of Singaporean English is essentially Standard British, which I guess is close enough to Standard American. Either that or my English is closer to Standard British.) When I actually realised that you could check more than one answer, I answered with sentences that would sound "okay" if spoken, and I'm pretty sure a few were Ebonics. I have no idea where Australian came from.

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

...uh. It's nice to know that my interest in Scandinavia has (apparently) bled over into my language patterns, but I don't think I've been studying Norwegian nearly long enough for that. At least English made it into third place.

[ButterflyWings]

My language results:

http://screencast.com/t/eVFkZtx5

[Haiz]

Dialect guesses:
1. American (Standard)
2. Welsh (UK)
3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics

.............okay

Native language guesses:
1. Norwegian
2. English
3. Swedish

eyyy
can't really argue with that, can I. I didn't expect czech to show up, either, because I keep applying norwegian grammar to my czech language and messing up anyway.