accent test/ pays to have inherited good hearing, too/MS brain at work

[Guest guest]

I think I got 68, and missed two cities.

But then I grew up in a multi-lingual family,

have lived in a lot of countries, if only briefly,

and was married to an Austrian-German hus

band, had a Hungarian room-mate in college,

and have been all over West and East Europe.

I have friends from Australia and New Zealand,

and I got the Belgium one, from Liege (missed

the city, I think) only because I had heard that

accent in Southern Africa--in what was then the

Belgian Congo.

One of my brothers took the test first on the same

computer, so the game asked me whether I was

sure that I had not taken it before. I was the third

person to take it, and none of us allowed the other

two to watch nor to listen--had to wander out for a

bit.

On the other hand, I think that I have forgotten at

least five names in the last two days.

Thank you for this gem, Val,

and love to each of you.

n

P.S. I could only access the typed link on google;

I think it was www.languagetrainersgroup.com/accent.html

M.~