[wholien]

Really? I feel like these two in written form are pretty different, and I don't have any real knowledge of South Asian languages.

Personally I feel Thai and Lao are harder to tell apart (I've resorted to: Lao is more curvy, Thai uses more straight lines), and also how to tell apart Czech from Slovakian, or Danish from other Nordic languages. Of course there are other ways to tell where you are, and if you only rely on written language you will not become a great player.

I'd watch GeoRainbolt[1] and all the pros that play in his tournaments.

1: https://georainbolt.com/

[SOLAR_FIELDS]

How did you end up telling apart Danish from “other Nordic languages”?

It’s quite trivial as a layman American who has lived in Scandinavia to tell Danish apart for Swedish (one immediate dead giveaway is usage of ø in Danish vs ö in Swedish). But apparently Danish and Norwegian in written form are almost indistinguishable, so reliance on cultural usage of words must be necessary

[sundvor]

As a Norwegian, I was going to say wait for the Dane to open their mouth; it's apparent in roughly 1 picosecond.

But yeah this is probably with the written language/static imagery so please ignore, move along. :)

[Hublium]

Norwegian has the diphthongs "ei" and "øy", while Danish has "ej" and "øj". Though I don't know whether you can rely on that when looking at proper names (surnames, place names).

[Arnavion]

Yes, it's funny. It ought to be trivial to differentiate between Bangla and Sinhala/Tamil because Bangla has the top horizontal line joining letters of a word whereas Sinhala/Tamil have the round jalebi-like letters. But somehow the streamers always forget about it.

(They're busy commentating, and they're not dedicated GeoGuessr streamers. It's understandable.)

But even if they could, it will still be harder when it comes time to differentiate between Hindi / Gujarati / Marathi / Bangla etc, which is why I'm looking forward to it.

[Hublium]

in case anyone here is wondering anyway:

Only Czech: ě, ř, ů

Only Slovak: ä, ľ, ô