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!

My guess, and my answer...

My guess is that it’s more than the number of languages you speak, read, and/or write.

Do you feel cheated because I didn’t pick a number? Vote how you want to, or don’t vote! I’m just interested in the count.

I can count to ten in five languages, but I only speak two. I can read a third, and I once was able to converse in a fourth, but have long since lost that skill. I know only some pick-up/borrow words from the 5th, including counting to 10.

  1. My native language is English
  2. I lived in Germany for a couple of years; because I never took classes, I can’t write in German, but I spoke fluently by the time I left.
  3. I studied French in college for three years; I can read French, but I’ve yet to meet a French person who can understand what I’m trying to say, and I have a hard time comprehending it.
  4. I taught myself Esperanto a couple of decades ago, and used to hang out in Esperanto chat rooms. I haven’t kept up.
  5. I can count to ten in Japanese because I took Aikido classes for a decade or so, and my instructor counted out loud in Japanese, and the various movements are numbered.

I can almost count to ten in Spanish, because I grew up in mid-California and there was a lot of Spanish thrown around. But French interferes, and I start in Spanish and find myself switching to French in the middle, so I’m not sure I could really do it.

Bonus question: do you ever do your counting in a non-native language, just to make it more interesting?

  • luluu@lemmy.world
    601·
    8 months ago

    1. Python

    for i in range(11):
    print(i)

    2. R

    for (i in 0:10) {
  print(i)
}

    3. C/C++

    #include <iostream>

int main() {
  for (int i = 0; i <= 10; ++i) {
    std::cout << i << std::endl;
  }
  return 0;
}

    4. Java

    public class CountToTen {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    for (int i = 0; i <= 10; i++) {
      System.out.println(i);
    }
  }
}

    5. Lua

    for i = 0, 10 do
  print(i)
end

    6. Bash (Shell Script)

    for i in $(seq 0 10); do
  echo $i
done

    7. Batch (Windows Command Script)

    @echo off
for /l %%i in (0,1,10) do (
  echo %%i
)

    8. Go

    package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
  for i := 0; i <= 10; i++ {
    fmt.Println(i)
  }
}

    9. Rust

    fn main() {
  for i in 0..=10 {  // 0..=10 includes 10
    println!("{}", i);
  }
}

    10. Zig

    const std = @import("std");

pub fn main() !void {
    var i: i32 = 0;
    while (i <= 10) {
        std.debug.print("{}\n", .{i});
        i += 1;
    }
}

    11. Scala

    for (i <- 0 to 10) {
  println(i)
}

    12. Fortran

    program count_to_ten
  implicit none
  integer :: i

  do i = 0, 10
    print *, i
  end do

end program count_to_ten

    13. Haskell

    main :: IO ()
main = mapM_ print [0..10]

    14. Julia

    for i in 0:10
    println(i)
end
  • Old Jimmy Twodicks@sh.itjust.works
    49·
    8 months ago

    English:

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Spanish:

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    French:

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    German:

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Italian:

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Greek:

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Mongolian:

    ᠐ ᠑ ᠒ ᠓ ᠔ ᠕ ᠖ ᠗ ᠘ ᠙ ᠑᠐

      • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 months ago

        Yeah, no issue with counting to 10. The rest however… Im really bad in learning languages, I’ve had German and French in school for 13 years yet I can’t speak either. I know English besides Dutch because of the internet and subtitles on TV. I wanted to learn languages like Norwegian, Latin and Russian but I gave up because I just don’t remember words that well. Same with history, I remember stories but can’t remember dates. I’m better at logic, like math and chemistry. But at least I know how to order up to 10 beers in multiple languages.

        • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialOP
          1·
          8 months ago

          at least I know how to order up to 10 beers in multiple languages.

          Critical life skills !

          Most languages go all wonky after 10. German is pretty regular after 12 (12 is such an important number in human history!), French is absolutely insane. Conlangs like Esperanto are the really only highly regular ones.

      • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 months ago

        Japanese, English, ASL, and Spanish. Those are my four.

        I’m trying to get my Japanese back to as good as it was before I came to America-proper; I spent my childhood on an Air Force base and went to a school in rural Japan. Then I learned English, and with it, my Japanese started rotting. Started really trying hard to get decent at it again for the last decade. It comes, but slowly.

        I can count to ten in Spanish cause that’s the second-place language out here, and ASL cause doing 20 counts on one hand is stupid useful and I love it.

  • Opinionhaver@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    8 months ago

    I had mandatory Swedish at school for over 6 years and I can’t even count to ten in that language. Time well spent.

  • Stovetop@lemmy.world
    5·
    8 months ago

    English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Latin, Classical Greek.

    That makes 11, I guess.

  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.ukEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    English, French, German is three.

    Oh, also Scottish, American English, Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English, er… Canadian English, Irish English, Singaporean English, oh, and lots of other Xian English where X is one of the various African countries or islands of the Caribbean that use English as their official language.

    Call it another 27 or so.

    And they say maths is a language, so 31 total. What do I win?

  • toofpic@lemmy.world
    4·
    8 months ago

    Russian as native
    English as expected
    Danish as I’m integrating
    Korean as I was doing Taekwondo (can’t say much more actually)

    • Stovetop@lemmy.world
      11·
      8 months ago

      Acht and neun.

      Neun sounds like English nine, and acht is like October, which used to be the 8th month.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
    3·
    8 months ago

    Replying opened the spoiler for me, but:

    1. English (native)
    2. Spanish (school)
    3. Esperanto (self-taught)
    4. Latin (university)

    I can also count to five in German, and I used to know 1-10 in Swahili, but now only remember that “moja means one”