I don't understand any of this.
How the hell do they get anything done?![]()
How the hell do they get anything done?![]()
In French you have soixante for sixty.
Then after sixty nine instead of a word for seventy you have:
Soixante-dix (60 and 10)
Eighty is quatre-vingt (4 twenties)
And ninety is quatre-vingt dix (4 twenties and ten)
etc.
Its not every funny
How the hell do they get anything done?![]()
At least French kids learn what 4 times 20 + 19 = before American kids do.
After 69 their counting involves addition.
After 79 it involves multiplication
between 80 - 99 it involves multiplication and addition.
The French do not have a word for seventy, eighty or ninety.
I'm not interested enough to do any research, but it wouldn't shock meif their children simply learned much more slowly to count to 100. Yhe children in my nursery school could count to 1000 when we were fewer than 3 years of age. We could read, too. I'll admit, however, I could not multiply. I don;t know if the other children could, or could not.
In French you have soixante for sixty.
Then after sixty nine instead of a word for seventy you have:
Soixante-dix (60 and 10)
Eighty is quatre-vingt (4 twenties)
And ninety is quatre-vingt dix (4 twenties and ten)
etc.
Its not every funny
The French do not have a word for seventy, eighty or ninety.
I'm not interested enough to do any research, but it wouldn't shock meif their children simply learned much more slowly to count to 100.
There's no extra mental leap needed.