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most 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 hi
by adi92 18y ago
most 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.