Have you guys tried this quiz?

[Broheim]

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

it tries to guess your accent and native tongue based on your grammatical proficiency at English.

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
South African
American (Standard)
Canadian

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

I was a bit surprised it thought I sounded (well, wrote - I guess) South African. I'm Danish so it got close.

edit: oh and it's a research project, not your average "quiz" scam.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Just saw it on another forum last night. I be speaking ebonics.

EDIT: Specifically

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. Portuguese
2. English
3. Dutch

 

[Broheim]

ek sê my boet, but you're a wit ou. (yes, I have embraced my algorithmically assigned accent)

 

[Rakehellion]

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
- See more at: http://www.gameswithwords.org/WhichEnglish/#sthash.oImlwEJS.dpuf

 

[deadlyapp]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

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

1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Swedish - See more at: http://www.gameswithwords.org/WhichEnglish/#sthash.RT96m6TL.dpuf

No surprise there.

 

[mmntech]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. Singaporean
2. Canadian
3. South African

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

1. Vietnamese
2. English
3. Chinese

 

[Ruptga]

Not what I was expecting.

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

1. English
2. Dutch
3. Swedish

I have no idea what Ebonics is doing up there.

 

[Thebobo]

Lol what?

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
2. Singaporean
3. South African

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

1. Swedish
2. Greek
3. Finnish

 

[slayer202]

come on, this is bullshit right?

My grandmother really loved John. She left all her money to ______.

he
him
her
it

Where the fuck is "her" or "it" proper?

 

[radtechtips]

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. Arabic - See more at: http://www.gameswithwords.org/WhichEnglish/#sthash.RBIZV4Be.dpuf

 

[Thebobo]

come on, this is bullshit right?

My grandmother really loved John. She left all her money to ______.

he
him
her
it

Where the fuck is "her" or "it" proper?

And I was thinking context what if they were talking about a place to donate. So "it" could be proper.

 

[Jaskalas]

Cute...it apparently thinks most everyone in America speaks Ebonics.

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

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

 

[dighn]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. Singaporean
2. New Zealandish
3. Australian
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. Norwegian
2. English
3. Swedish

WTH

edit:
did another round opting for colloquial instead of formal grammar and got more reasonable answers

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

 

[radtechtips]

Mine was right on

 

[ThatsABigOne]

LOL. I am as far away from ebonics as possible.

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. Finnish
2. Hungarian
3. Russian

Russian and Belarussian were my native languages.

 

[John Connor]

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. Dutch
3. Norwegian

I was in speech therapy at a young age due to hearing problems and was in special ED classes. So hence the Ebonics as third choice BS!

 

[pete6032]

American and Canadian. Not surprising since I have lived in the far northern US.

 

[TheVrolok]

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. Norwegian
3. Dutch

Meh.

 

[homebrew2ny]

My results were accurate.

 

[phucheneh]

This is retarded. There are very clear 'right' and 'holy shit, you talk like a fucking moron' answers. I don't see this as a test of dialect as much as a test of 'English, motherfucker, do you speak it?'

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

 

[sactoking]

This is retarded. There are very clear 'right' and 'holy shit, you talk like a fucking moron' answers. I don't see this as a test of dialect as much as a test of 'English, motherfucker, do you speak it?'

This.

Although I will temper it a bit by saying I could see how some of the bizarre answers might work. For example, saying "He's been in hospital" is common in Eastern Europe. Some of the sentence constructions make sense as literal translations from other languages with much different grammatical constructions.

 

[JulesMaximus]

My results:

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

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

So, pretty accurate for me (except for the ebonics part).

 

[SKORPI0]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:?

1. Singaporean
2. Canadian
3. South African

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

1. Russian
2. Spanish
3. Arabic
---------------------------------
^_^

 

[John Connor]

Got the same as I did.

My results:

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

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

So, pretty accurate for me (except for the ebonics part).

 

[iCyborg]

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. German


My native language isn't even in the Germanic group of languages, but I started learning English when I was 9, and I've been living in Canada for >10 years, so not too surprising. Somewhat strange that Canadian wasn't picked up.
Not sure what the deal with Singaporean is, I'm not Asian. Or Ebonics...