Test Your Knowledge of Accents Around the Globe

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  08.19.08 | 11:22 AM ET

Can you distinguish between an Australian accent and a Kiwi accent? Or a German and Belgian accent? If so, take a crack at this online quiz, which features video of people around the world reading a portion of the Rudyard Kipling poem “If,” followed by multiple choice questions asking you to locate the speaker. It’s fun—and surprisingly hard. Time after time, I thought I knew the answer and, well ... not so much. (Via Very Short List)