LanguageGuessr

LanguageGuessr plays real recordings of people speaking their own language, about ten seconds each, with nothing on screen to help. Your answer is a pin on the world map: the closer it lands to where the language is spoken, the more you score, so a guess in the right family of languages usually lands in the right neighbourhood.

The daily challenge has five rounds, the same five clips for everybody until midnight, and finishes with a shareable result. After each round the game names the language, shows where it is spoken and points out the clue you missed. The pool holds more than 150 languages, from Mandarin and Spanish to regional and endangered ones such as Manx and Sorbian.

Outside the daily there is a campaign of nine regional stages with medals for streaks, multiplayer rooms where everyone hears the same clip at once, a Survival mode with three lives, and a free Explore mode. The daily challenge, the campaign and Survival ask you to sign in first, with email, Google or Facebook; the account is free and keeps your streaks, medals and daily results, and tracks which languages you keep getting wrong. A sample round on the home page and the Explore map play without one. It suits players of Langle and Lingule who want to listen rather than read.