Light or Right? The Classic L/R Ear Test

Especially for Japanese & Korean speakers

Japanese has a single liquid consonant that covers the territory of both English /l/ and /r/, and Korean's ㄹ shifts between the two depending on position — so the confusion isn't carelessness, it's two categories collapsing into one in the L1.

The one everyone's heard jokes about. Let's find out what your ear actually does with it.

8 rounds · about 90 seconds