Re: Help me Count to 10

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:40:53 -0700, amzoti wrote:

Hi All,

This may be slightly off topic, but any help is appreciated.

I like to challenge students that I teach by changing things up once in
while with something a little off topic.

I would like to teach them to count from 1 to 10 in six different
languages (those of you with Ph. D.'s will get this - I hope).

I know English, Spanish and ancient Latin (why not).

Of course, the three other langauages are easy enough to look on
babelfish, but I need the phonetic pronuciation and there are probably
those among you that can provide at least three more languages (say
French, Italian, Russian and any other where you feel I might actually
have a chance to pull off counting to 10).

Sorry if this is slightly off topic, but I do appreciate any inputs!

-A

I know very little but Japanese makes a distinction between counting and
naming numbers. In short, the sequence "ichi, ni, sa, shi, go" is not
counting. I'm not sure what it would correspond to in Western thought.

(FWIW, "Mitsubishi" means "three diamonds" as well; that's about all I
know about it.)

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