Linguistics

[kjeks]

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).

Well IF my dialect really sounds south african my poor kids in primary school are learning exactly that XD. I had one teacher that had returned from oxford before she started teaching us. never helped against me pronouncing badly and replacing all the unknown words with german substitutes.

[ParanormalAndroid]

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

Even the Norwegians are more Welsh than me, apparently. .-.

[curiosity]

...wat.
I don't know how close any of the latter three are to my first language, but I have a feeling that nowhere near.

Interesting thing, though. I just have to show it to my friend. Thanks for sharing!

[KElder]

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. Swedish
3. Norwegian

Not too bad.

[DancingRanger]

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

Honestly if you were here I wouldn't guess you're not American. I would however ask where you're from, cause you kinda sound like someone from Cincinnati (or it's area of influence. . .)

As for me

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

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


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

1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Dutch

American standard, well duh! I've got the Midland accent, pretty generic there.  And yes English is my native language.

[Vafhudr]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:?

1. Canadian
2. American (Standard)
3. Singaporean

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

1. English
2. Greek
3. Chinese

Well they got the dialect right.

But they missed the mark for the native language, though. I studied ancient Greek but I don't think that counts.
I mean, I learned English well - I don't know how my French would seep in and signal that it is my first language. You can hear it, but it doesn't register on the syntactical or grammatical level.

[Auleliel]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. South African
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. American (Standard)

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

My dialect is listed, but only as the third option. Not bad. It's a shame the dialects aren't more specific.

[Helia]

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

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

  Yes, I do speak Hunglish...

But as for the dialects, I don't believe you can really associate a dialect with people who speak English as a second language and have never lived in an English speaking environment.
The ‘dialect’- at least in my case - is the result of language courses in the past, films, books, internet, frequent interaction with non-native English speakers and a lot of mistakes.

[Viisikielinenkantele]

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).

Okay, let me clarify that. As far as I remember my english teachers all studied somewhere in England and I was twice in England while still learning so it should have had some effect on my dialect. However I read a LOT of books from all over the world since then and this was maybe the bigger influence. (Not going into the sad fact that I have had almost no opportunity actually speaking english the last years... )

[Shihchuan]

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

Hmm, maybe Singaporean English has enough influence by Chinese language that my dialect/accent is associated with it? The dialect I've learned is definite primarily General American, though I'm not aware that I have any significant Black Vernacular influence.

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

Same for the Vietnamese part; maybe it's hard for them to distinguish between Vietnamese influence and Chinese influence? (I didn't know that I spoke English like a Nordic! ^^)

[Danskjavlar]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. New Zealandish
2. Scottish (UK)
3. English (England)

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

1. English
2. Hungarian
3. Greek

I've done this before and I still have no idea where it got Hungarian/Greek from. I'm English, so I guess it got that sort-of right.

[StarN1ght]

Results:

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

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Chinese

Well, the #1 results are accurate, but I don't know where it got the #2 and #3 results. *shrug*

[Sunflower]

I see this is your first post -- welcome! 
Can we persuade you to go introduce yourself in the Introduction Thread?  You'll see that newcomers generally say a little about themselves, where they're from, what they're interested in, maybe how they came across SSSS.  It's a great chance to ask questions and find kindred spirits.

If you want to delve deeper, introduce yourself here on the Language Board.  This is specifically to talk about the languages (and related topics) you speak, are studying, or want to learn someday. 

Results:

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

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Chinese

Well, the #1 results are accurate, but I don't know where it got the #2 and #3 results. *shrug*

[Russet]

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

How? What? None of these?
The English dialect worked pretty well though, it guessed a Singaporean dialect (which is pretty close to Malaysian) and American, which is understandable since a large number of Western films/books (which is mainly how I learnt English) are American.

[Asterales]

I laughed myself sick, what with the pictures at the start and sudden memories of primary school popping up... 

English dialect:
1) South African
2) Singaporean
3) US Black Vernacular/Ebonics

No idea how I got those results. I have gone to boarding school in Shropshire, GB for two years. The school was close to the Welsh border and we had some students from Cornwall and other southern counties. Although that is still pretty far from South Africa! Well, I'd say I speak 'Internet English'.

First Language:
1) Romanian
2) English
3) German

I am very sorry, but I don't even know what Romanian sounds like... Hey! Wait! My Classical Chinese teacher is Romanian! 
I'll take number two as a compliment. They even got my native tongue on there. Last guess, but yay!