In how many languages can you count to 10?
Ok, Lemmy, let's play a game!
Post how many languages in which you can count to ten, including your native language. If you like, provide which languages. I'm going to make a guess; after you've replied, come back and open the spoiler. If I'm right: upvote; if I'm wrong: downvote!
Bonus question: do you ever do your counting in a non-native language, just to make it more interesting?
I can count to ten in more language than I am able to speak (I just love learning stuff):
Can count above ten:
German (native), English, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Japanese
Can count only up to ten:
French, Polish, Mandarin
I am learning Romanian at the moment, those are 0-10:
zero,
unu/ una,
doi/ două,
trei,
patru,
cinci,
șase,
șapte,
opt,
nouă,
zece
Mandarin and Malay counting is very easy and consistent. You mainly just need to know until 10 or until 20 for malay. Malay uses English script, so you can read the numbers, too.
Well if you can count to ten in mandarin, you can count to 100.
It's literally 5 10 2, 5 10 3 for 52, 53 etc.
Add one more word for hundreds, one more for thousands.
After that it gets tough cause numbers beyond thousands are split by packs of 10 thousands, not hundred thousands like most western world (I guess).
Similar to the lakh in Indian
Oh, just like in Japanese, did not know that, they have the ten thousands quirk too. Would love to learn more Chinese and other languages, but I lack free time.
It's coming from the abacus, meaning most likely all of Asian languages have this.
I wonder about Arabic ones ?
Quick question, why one would bother to learn romanian specifically? Family? Partners?
I get this question quite often, but to be frank, I just like the sound of it.