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Can you count to 10?

Hola Basil. I was wondering how many languages you guys can count to 10 in.
I'll start it off with the 4 languages I know

English........
French: Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre, Cinq, Six, Sept, Huit, Neuf, Dix
Arabic (Romanized): Wahid, Thnean, Thalatha, Arbaa, Khamsa, Sita, Saba, Thamanya, Tisa, Ashra
Korean ( Just learned but I hear there's 2 different ways): Hana, Dul, Set, Net, Dasot, Yasot, Ilgop, Yodol, Ahop, Yol

Your turn .

March 15, 2012

35 Comments • Newest first

redclaw202

English: One, fish, eight, four, five, six, triangle, eight, nine, ten.

Japanese: Ichi, ni, san, shi/yon, go, roku, shichi/nana, hachi, kyuu, juu.

Reply March 16, 2012
NiceGuys

English: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten
Spanish: Uno Dose Thres quoto sinko sess siete ocho nueva diess (i dont know spanish much)
Viet: Mope High Bah (like a sheep) bome numb sow buy tham chin muy.

Reply March 16, 2012
tsubasa128

english:
spanish: uno dos tres quatro cinco seis siete ocho nueve dies
french: un duex trois quatre cinq six sept huit nuef dix
latin: un duo tres quattour quinque sex septem octem novem decem
mandarin: yi er san si wu lui qi ba jiu shi
cantonese: yip yee sam sei nm lop chep ba jiu szup (fail romanization >&lt
Shanghainese(chinese dialect): yi liang se si ng lo tche ba jiu za
korean: il yi tsam tsa wu yoo chi pal gu ship ( fail romanization)
japanese: ichi ni san shi go roku nana hachi kyu jyu

Reply March 15, 2012
Casey

I can almost count to seven in English.

Reply March 15, 2012
ThouShallNot

Sign language: Oh wait.... Gosh darn!
Guess English will have to replace it then: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and TEN!

That is all I know.. Even my three year old daughter knows more than me! (Sign, English and French!)

Reply March 15, 2012
SpriterAlex

English: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Español: Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, nueve, diez.

I kind of wish I knew more languages. But I suppose there's not much reason to know anything other than English when you live in the U.S.

Reply March 15, 2012
xblueskies

English
French
Korean Sino
Cantonese
Mandarin
Dutch - Een, Twee, Drie, Vier, Vijf, Zes, Zeven, Acht, Negen, Tien

Reply March 15, 2012
SuberKieran

English - one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten
French - un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix

Reply March 15, 2012
Dlazer616

@TheDarkHero3: The "o" in one is important to the sound of the word. Also vowels aren't moved most of the time.

Reply March 15, 2012
TheDarkHero3

[quote=Dlazer616]Pig latin: one-ay, wo-tay, ree-thay, our-fay, ive-fay, ix-say, even-say, ine-nay, en-tay[/quote]

Wouldn't one be ne-oay? Sounds kinda like an-way?

Reply March 15, 2012
5outof5

Urdu and Panjabi. (vocab and grammar placement are a bit different between the two but the numbers are the same): aik, tho, teen, char, panch, che, sath, ath, no, dus
Latin: uno, duo, tres, quattour, qiunque, sex, septem, octo, novem, decem

Reply March 15, 2012
Dlazer616

Pig latin: one-ay, wo-tay, ree-thay, our-fay, ive-fay, ix-say, even-say, ine-nay, en-tay

Reply March 15, 2012
Xgo321

English one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
Chinese (Cantonese) yut yee sam say mm look chut bat gao sup
Spanish uno dos tres cuatro cinco seis siete ocho nueve diez
and Russian. odean dva tre chetire pyat shest sem vosem devyat desyat

yay

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simsands

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
i ii iii iv v vi vii iix ix x
.---- ..--- ...-- ....- ..... -.... --... ---.. ----. -----
1 10 11 100 101 111 1000 1001 1010

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SharkyJr

Dutch (Phonetically sounds like Ein, Twei, Drie, Feer, Feif, Ses, Seven, Aght, Neighn, Teen)

Japanese (Gee thanks, anime!)

French, Spanish, and German.

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faker

English, vietnamese, Spanish, and French

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Shalow40

Chinese French Spanish English Italian Vietnamese

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ProBlades

English, Spanish, Japanese. I can go to 7 in French.

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Sjoooberg

• Swedish
• English
• Spanish

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bored741258963

@TheDarkHero3: Haha alright. Thanks for the help. Yea it's time for me to go for salat too right now. Ill talk to you later

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InvalidRiot

http://memegenerator.net/instance/16350727

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TheDarkHero3

[quote=bored741258963]Wow. Your Arabic is like perfect. Do you, by chance, live in the Middle East Area? So far I'm finding Korean difficult too. But it seems to be such an interesting language. [/quote]
No, I don't live in a mid east area but I am Arabic. I think Arabic is extremely hard to perfect unless you are Arabic. Korean is hard for sure but I always wanted to learn one Asian language and since Korean had an alphabet system, I decided to learn how to read it. It is very easy to read. I learned all the vowels and consonants in three days and then after that, I could read any Korean text though I wouldn't understand what I read You should try to learn how to read and write. As for knowing what the words mean and stuff, that is very hard to do and you have to really work hard to learn speaking.
Arabic: Yajubu an usali salat al thuhur al an. La illah illa lah, Mohammedun rassulu allah.

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sakurarose8955

English, spanish and japanese to ten. Thats about it

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bored741258963

[quote=TheDarkHero3]English: I learned most of them during breaks like Winter/March Break. Korean was probably the hardest to learn anyway BTW Sino Korean is so similar to mandarin numbers so since I already learned the mandarin numbers at school from my friends, sino was really easy to pickup.
Arabic: (: Ana ta'lamtu mu'thamhum fill ijazat mithl ijaza al shi ta' ow ijaza mars. Alargam al korea hue asab wuhda lilta'lum fi ai hal. Al kori al sino huwa mith al argaam al sinia wa ana talumtha(al argaam al sinia) fi il madrassa min asdiqai fa al kori al sino kan sahlan jidan lil talum.[/quote]

Wow. Your Arabic is like perfect. Do you, by chance, live in the Middle East Area? So far I'm finding Korean difficult too. But it seems to be such an interesting language.

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Mysterieuse

I can say it in French, English, Spanish, and german, but idk how to write the number in German, just how to pronounce them out loud, and even still its somewhat hard haha

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Broccoleh

English
French
Vietnamese
Possibly Spanish. Dora represent.

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TheDarkHero3

[quote=Zippo]En, To, Tre, Fire, Fem, Seks, Syv, Otte, Ni, Ti. < Guess this one [/quote]

Norwegian

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yanireth

I can count to 10 in English, French, Spanish, Japanese and Khmer.

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TheDarkHero3

[quote=bored741258963]I despise you...on so many levels!
Curse your ability to know how to count in so many languages! Especially Korean
Btw, you put the ' for Arabic in the right places...Something I shoulda done hahha.
But nice job [/quote]
English: I learned most of them during breaks like Winter/March Break. Korean was probably the hardest to learn anyway BTW Sino Korean is so similar to mandarin numbers so since I already learned the mandarin numbers at school from my friends, sino was really easy to pickup.
Arabic: (: Ana ta'lamtu mu'thamhum fill ijazat mithl ijaza al shi ta' ow ijaza mars. Alargam al korea hue asab wuhda lilta'lum fi ai hal. Al kori al sino huwa mith al argaam al sinia wa ana talumtha(al argaam al sinia) fi il madrassa min asdiqai fa al kori al sino kan sahlan jidan lil talum.

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Zippo

En, To, Tre, Fire, Fem, Seks, Syv, Otte, Ni, Ti. < Guess this one

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nightdrks

english french and arabic

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bored741258963

[quote=TheDarkHero3]English: One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten
French: Un Deux Trois Quatre Cinq Six Sept Huit Neuf Dix
Spanish: Uno Dos Tres Quatro Cinco Seis Siete Ocho Neuve Diez
Italian: Uno Douis Tre Quatro Cinco Sei Siette Otto Nove Diesse
Portugese: Um Dosh Tresh Quatro Cinco Seis Set Oito Nove Dez
Arabic: Wahid Ithnan Thalatha Arb'a Khamsa Sita Sab'a Thamania Tis'a A'shra
Korean Sinoh: Eel Ee Sam Sa Oh Yook Cheel Pahl Goo Ship
Korean Traditional: Hana Dool Seht Neht Dasut Yusut Eelgop Yuhdol Ahhop Yuhl
Mandarin(Terrible at it): Ee Aa Son Sue Eu Leo Tse Ba Jeo Shue[/quote]

I despise you...on so many levels!
Curse your ability to know how to count in so many languages! Especially Korean
Btw, you put the ' for Arabic in the right places...Something I shoulda done hahha.
But nice job

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SunnyDay

Mandarin
Cantonese
English
German
French

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TheDarkHero3

English: One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten
French: Un Deux Trois Quatre Cinq Six Sept Huit Neuf Dix
Spanish: Uno Dos Tres Quatro Cinco Seis Siete Ocho Neuve Diez
Italian: Uno Douis Tre Quatro Cinco Sei Siette Otto Nove Diesse
Portuguese: Um Dosh Tresh Quatro Cinco Seis Set Oito Nove Dez
Arabic: Wahid Ithnan Thalatha Arb'a Khamsa Sita Sab'a Thamania Tis'a A'shra
Korean Sinoh: Eel Ee Sam Sa Oh Yook Cheel Pahl Goo Ship
Korean Traditional: Hana Dool Seht Neht Dasut Yusut Eelgop Yuhdol Ahhop Yuhl
Mandarin(Terrible at it): Ee Aa Son Sue Eu Leo Tse Ba Jeo Shue
BTW Spanish Italian and Portuguese counting is so similar that I had to learn them all.

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