Tuesday, March 14, 2006

how to count in chinese

I found this one when I was looking for something else a while back, it's something I learned soon after i got here:how to count to ten in chinese on one hand. Is a fair bit different to our one!



According to my chinese teacher, one of her students went into McDonalds and was trying to get two burgers, so he held up his thumb & index finger to show he wanted two, just like he'd do at home in the US. Well, you can see from above how many he actually got.... :-)
Posted by milesfromhome at 11:05 am
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Anonymous said...

I use that as well, and the number 6 is slanty (inverted) chinese ideograph of six. I use that alot, quite handy when telling folks the number of things without the use of 2 hands.

4:36 pm

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