Hello, bonjour, namaste, one greeting at a time, where in the world are you?
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How to play
Each round plays a greeting in a real language and asks you to name the country where it's spoken. Even if you miss the exact country, correctly identifying the language earns you partial credit.
Listen to or read the greeting for each round
Name the country it belongs to for full credit
Get the language right for a consolation score if the country slips
Work through a set of greetings for a final total
Game modes
Easy, Medium or Hard difficulty for more obscure tongues
Daily run or Practice for endless rounds
Controls
Desktop: click to choose your answer for each greeting
Phone & tablet: tap your answer
Tips & strategy
Tie a language to its most populous home country first, then refine
Learn the multi-country languages, a right language can still bank points
Listen for distinctive sounds and scripts that separate close neighbours
What you'll learn
Tongue Tied links greetings to the countries and tongues that use them, building awareness of the world's languages.
Skills: world languages, countries, cultural geography
Best for: roughly grades 4–9 (ages 9–15)
For parents & teachers: a friendly window onto global languages.
About Tongue Tied
Tongue Tied is a world-languages quiz linking greetings to the countries and tongues that use them. It's an original, free browser game built in-house for PlayPendium.
A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.
