Thursday, February 18, 2010

I collect languages.
Here are the numbers one to ten in a variety of languages.

Please add yours.

Note: With some languages I used approximate Americanized spelling. Also I don't have umlauts or other markings on my keyboard. I apologize. Feel free to correct me.

Finnish: yksi, kaksi, kolme, nelja, viisi, kuusi, seitsaman, kahdeksan, yhdeksan, kymmenen

Mandarin Chinese: ee, are, san, se, wo, liu, chee, ba, joe, sure

Toisanese Chinese: yut, nee, thlam, thlee, luk, tut, bot, ngiu, sup

Japanese: ichi, nee, san, she, go, loku, shichi, hatchi, ku, chu

German: eins, zwei, drei, vier, funf, sechs, sieben, acht, neun, zehn

Spanish: uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez

Hmong: ee, aw, bei, blau, chee, chao, shia, yi, chua, kau

Swedish: ett, tva, tre, fyra, fem, sex, sju, atta, nio, tio
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Welcome to World Citizen.







If you think about it or research it thoroughly enough, if you go back far enough in everyone's geneology we find that we are ultimately all related to each other.

My mother was born and raised in Finland, lived in China and the Philipines, then the United States. Her ancesters came to Finland from Germany. My father's parents immigrated to America from Finland. My husband and his family immigrated to America from China. Who knows if we went back even further what we would find.

Even on a global level, the borders and names of countries have been changing over history.

It behooves us to embrace each other, value our diversity, recognize our common ground and treasure the variety of flavors each country, culture and people contribute to our world.































What is your preferred learning / teaching platform? Why? Leave comments on the blog. Thank you.

How do you greet someone in your language / culture?

In China you say, "Nee how?" (How are you?) Bowing is polite.

In Finland you say, "Moi." (Hi) or "Hyva huomenta" (good morning) or "Hyva paivaa" (Good day) or "Hyva ilta" (Good evening) (My keyboard doesn't have the a, o or u with the two dots on top.) Bowing for guys and cursteying for girls was polite when I was a child...I don't know about now.

In Germany you say, "Guten morgen." (Good morning) or "Guten tag." (Good day)

Please add the country where you are from and how people greet each other in your country.

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Where am I from? The world - Taiwan, Finland, and America. I have taken into my heart many people from many different countries; love ethnic foods; collect languages, and thrive on variety in language, culture, and world view. Masters equivalent in English as a Second Language; 3 Minnesota teaching licenses.

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