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I'd be interested to see some data on how children learning math in Hindi do, because the numbers are even less regular, enough so that even though there's a pa
by divia 18y ago
I'd be interested to see some data on how children learning math in Hindi do, because the numbers are even less regular, enough so that even though there's a pattern, you still have to learn all the numbers from 1-100 individually. There are also more specific words for different fractions, such as a word for 3/4 that sounds nothing like the word for 1/4.
http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/language/number/hindi.html http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/language/number/hindi.html
http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/jishnu/101/numbersfractions/default.asp http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/jishnu/101/numbersfractions/d...
(My apologies if any of this is wrong. I'm not a native speaker, just took a few years of Hindi in college.)
- adi92 18y agomost schools in urban india and a large number of the rest are 'english-medium'.. which means i learnt math in math class (in english) and learnt to count in hindi in hindi class.. but never had to solve a math problem in hindi i am currently learning japanese and can agree about the numbers being syllablically small.. but this language has it own complexities - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_counters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_counters which require a speaker to think a lot as well
- epoweripi 18y agoI agree with the comment above. But there is a large rural population in India that 'thinks numbers' in the native language. May be the article is true only for numbers in the CJK (Chinese-Japense-Korean) languages. Atleast in the 3 Indian languages I know, numbers are bad in all of them - as bad as it is in English.