Counting one to ten in different languages. Japanese language ticked!

ZE accompanied me to Tommy le Baker yesterday, because yiyi (aunt) was sleepy and in dire need for a place to get her latte fix. 

We brought along some reading materials from home. I took my Jimmy Liao picture books and ZE chose a Japanese phrase book.

She rattled off these words from the Japanese phrase book … Obasan (aunt), obaaasan (grandma), haha (mother), shoku-pan (a loaf of bread, since we bought a loaf of farmer sourdough). 

 

 

Remembering my goal of learning how to count in foreign language, I asked her to teach me how to count from one to ten in Japanese! So my niece turned into a spontaneous Japanese teacher 🙂

1. Ichi
2. Ni
3. San
4. Yon
5. Go
6. Roku
7. Nana
8. Hachi
9. Kyuu
10. Juu

Let’s take a look at the scoreboard of my goal to count one to ten in 10 languages. 

• Achieved 8 languages: English, BM, Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, Vietnamese, German, Spanish, Japanese.
• 2 more languages to go. What’s next?