A group of people, including Vanessa, Dae, and Lada, participate in an experiment where they try to guess the languages being spoken by various individuals from around the world. The individuals speak in their native languages, and the participants attempt to identify the languages and occasionally engage in conversations with them. Throughout the experiment, the participants show a range of reactions, from confidence to confusion, as they try to decipher the languages. In the end, it is revealed that Vanessa correctly identified three languages. The participants reflect on their experiences, with Vanessa expressing interest in learning Hawaiian and Dae mentioning that his favorite language is Hawaiian, which makes him miss home. The experiment concludes with the participants bidding farewell to Dae.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. The participants in the experiment are Vanessa, Dae, and Lada.
2. Lada is a professor of anthropology and linguistic anthropology.
3. Dae speaks seven languages: Ukrainian, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, and German.
4. Vanessa's family is from Nigeria, and she knows a little bit of Nigerian.
5. The participants are asked to guess the language being spoken by various people.
6. The languages spoken by the people in the experiment include Italian, Somali, Afrikaans, Hawaiian, Jamaican Patois, Bahasa Indonesia, Echie, Hungarian, and Scottish Gaelic.
7. Afrikaans is spoken by a small population of white people in South Africa.
8. Jamaican Patois is not a language, but a dialect.
9. Bahasa Indonesia is the language spoken by the woman in the gray sweater.
10. Echie is a language spoken in Nigeria.
11. The woman in the yellow shirt is from Jamaica and speaks Jamaican Patois.
12. The man in the plaid shirt speaks Scottish Gaelic.
13. Scottish Gaelic is a Celtic language.
14. Vanessa guessed four languages correctly.
15. Dae's favorite language is Hawaiian, and she would like to learn it because it's more realistic for her to visit Hawaii.
16. The experiment was difficult and humbling for the participants, but also fun and educational.