3 ms·
I bet they use card instead... In Germany you stand in line waiting for everyone to find exactly the right change, be them young or old. Most people pay with ca
by Moru 9y ago
I bet they use card instead... In Germany you stand in line waiting for everyone to find exactly the right change, be them young or old. Most people pay with cash even though it seems to get more common to use card. Euro has at least eight different coins. Sweden has 1, 2, 5, 10 as coins but most people still pay with card because it's easier and people are not burned by the big brother syndrome of the WW1/2 :-)
Would be interesting to see relative difficulty of each language, some of them are pretty close and have very similar difficulty while others are close but widely different difficulty.
- hmd_imputer 9y agoAnother Germany related comment today. Made my day :) It really becomes annoying when you have to wait a minute because an old lady needs to count all her coins in Lidl. Back to the original topic, as someone who can speak a few languages, I find the arguments stated in the article quite interesting. Obviously, just because one speaks Chinese doesn't mean they will definitely be a wunder-kind in math. Yet, it plays an important role in speeding up the learning process.
- Moru 9y agoIt's not only old ladies that have to count their coins, everyone young or old stands there with the head deep down over the purse trying to find those microscopic coins :-)