Spy or Not?

So you think you can make for a good spy? We will be testing your skills to make sure you can do good work for our organization. Let's see how you are at detecting accents.

Here is your mission. You will get on bus number 7 without attracting any attention from other passengers. At each stop, a new passenger will get on the bus, approach you, and speak one sentence to you. This sentence will be a code, so pay attention closely even to simple sentences like ‘This boat is huge'. Your mission is to assess whether this person is from South Africa, Russian or Sussex or not, based on the way they pronounce the sentence.

We will provide you with a report on your progress every 12th stop. Now get on the bus and don't forget we are watching you!

Spy Or Not is an Edu-tainment game by Phonetics Professor Dr. Laura Spinu and her students. Think you're a good judge of accents, try it out and see!

The game comes in Russian, Sussex English or South African accents.

The game was put on Android by iLanguage Lab, a Montreal Open Source software company.