Easy as uno, dos, tres

May 25, 2006 4:56 PM

Random poll of the day: Off the top of your head, in how many foreign languages can you count to ten?

If you're so inclined, please spell out the numbers (at least phonetically) so I can learn them myself.

As for me, I can do Spanish: uno, dos, tres, quatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez

German: eins, zwei, drei, fier, funf, sechs, sieben, acht, neun, zhen

Japanese: ichi, ni, san, shi, go, roku, nana, hachi, ku, ju

posted by zardoz to grab bag (42 comments total)

3 (fr, ital, sp)
posted by chelseagirl at 4:57 PM on May 25, 2006

English, French, Spanish, Japanese, and, at one time, (I am very embarrased to admit) Klingon.
posted by rossination at 4:58 PM on May 25, 2006

Two: Spanish and German.
posted by cog_nate at 5:00 PM on May 25, 2006

Deleted, geschrapt, supprimé, gelöscht, cancellato, suprimido, уничтожено...
posted by cortex at 5:03 PM on May 25, 2006 [1 favorite]

In my own phoneticisms...

Mandarin - eee, errr, san, szzz, oou, li-oou, qui, ba, jwey, shee
French - un, do, twoi, catr, sink, cease, sept, wheet, nuff, deez
posted by nomisxid at 5:04 PM on May 25, 2006

Two: French and German.
Weird how this fairly useless skill is amongst the first things taught in a language.
posted by greytape at 5:04 PM on May 25, 2006

spanish, korean, japanese, french, russian, latin. i tried typing out the phoenetics for korean, then looked them up, and they're so far off i want to die.
posted by soma lkzx at 5:04 PM on May 25, 2006

This is chatfilter and will probably be deleted, but to save us all the listing, here is Zompist's list of Numbers in 5000 languages.
posted by jacquilynne at 5:05 PM on May 25, 2006

(IT) Uno due tre quattro cinque sei sette otto nove diechi (spelling?)
posted by snsranch at 5:05 PM on May 25, 2006

neg khoyer gorow durew taw zurgaa doloo naim yes araw

(Mongolian)
posted by thirteenkiller at 5:05 PM on May 25, 2006

Just wait till languagehat comes in here...

(English, French, Russian)
posted by Krrrlson at 5:06 PM on May 25, 2006

All of them..

English, French, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, German, Latin. what a party trick nerd.
posted by kcm at 5:06 PM on May 25, 2006

French: un deux trois quatre cinq six sept huit neuf dix
(do I get points for having once known the Spanish and Italian? If I sat here for fifteen minutes, I could probably dredge them up...)
posted by overanxious ducksqueezer at 5:07 PM on May 25, 2006

Only three: English, Spanish, and ASL.
posted by yogurtisgenocide at 5:09 PM on May 25, 2006

Oh yeah I, like, know a bunch of other languages but probably other people can cover them.
posted by thirteenkiller at 5:10 PM on May 25, 2006

nomisxid: "In my own phoneticisms...

Mandarin - eee, errr, san, szzz, oou, li-oou, qui, ba, jwey, shee"

ouch - yi1 er4 san1 si4 wu3 liu4 qi1 ba1 jiu3 shi2
posted by kcm at 5:10 PM on May 25, 2006

一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十
하나 둘 셋 넷 다섯 여셋 일곱 여덟 아홉 열
일 이 삼 사 오 육 칠 팔 구 십
posted by I Love Tacos at 5:14 PM on May 25, 2006

Oh, and seven.
posted by I Love Tacos at 5:15 PM on May 25, 2006

I can do German, French, and Spanish; used to know them in Irish as well, but couldn't do it without cheating now.
posted by scody at 5:16 PM on May 25, 2006

French, Japanese, Spanish.
posted by Meagan at 5:16 PM on May 25, 2006

Nid yw Cymru ar werth.
posted by jack_mo at 5:19 PM on May 25, 2006

I learned Japanese in Seido class, and Korean in Tae Kwon Do, but I forgot that one.
Then there's Turkish, which I learned in Turkey: bir iki uch durt besh alti yedi sekiz dokuz on
posted by booth at 5:19 PM on May 25, 2006

french, german, swedish.
posted by fire&wings at 5:20 PM on May 25, 2006

I'll go first. Just English and Spanish.
posted by TurkishGolds at 5:23 PM on May 25, 2006

Spanish, Polish, German, and French. So 1, 2, 3 .... umm... 4.
posted by pmbuko at 5:24 PM on May 25, 2006

I can do english, spanish, Manderan and I can count to four in Japanese.
posted by delmoi at 5:25 PM on May 25, 2006

Twi (An akan dialect)
Baako, Mienu, Miensa, Annan, Enum, Nsiah, Akron, Awotwe, Edu
posted by ramix at 5:32 PM on May 25, 2006

English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Latin, Finnish, Estonian.
posted by oaf at 5:40 PM on May 25, 2006

Most of 4

English, French, Spanish, Hungarian

one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten

un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix

onze, deuze, treze, quatorze, hello, hello, ola

hungarian (phoenitically) edge, ketto, harum, neige, ert, hut, heet, nyolch, kirenz and tees
posted by vidarling at 5:41 PM on May 25, 2006

Russian (phonetically): odin, dva, tri, chetirye, pyat', shest', cem', vocem', devyat', desyat'

But you should learn cyrillic; it's not that hard.

Russian numbers in cyrillic
posted by granted at 5:41 PM on May 25, 2006

English, Italian, French, German, Swedish.
posted by DannyUKNYC at 5:48 PM on May 25, 2006

Oh... swedish goes like this:
(phonetically) et, tvo, tria, feera, fem, seks, heuy, otta, nio, tio
posted by DannyUKNYC at 5:50 PM on May 25, 2006

4. english, malay, bengali, mandarin.

malay: satu, dua, tiga, empat, lima, enam, tujuh, lapan, sembilan, sepuluh

bengali (phonetically): ak, dui, teen, char, pach, choi, shat, aht, noi, dosh
posted by divabat at 5:54 PM on May 25, 2006

norwegian: en, to, tre, fire, fem, seks, syv, åtte, ni, ti
punjabi: ik, do, ten, char, panj, che, sat, at, no, dass
posted by fondle at 6:11 PM on May 25, 2006

Three: spanish, portugues, and samoan.

Spanish is thoroughly covered. Portuguese is pretty similar (um, dois, tres, quatro, cinco, seis, sete, oito, nove, dez).

Samoan: tasi, lua, tolu, fa, lima, ono, fitu, valu, inu, sefulu.
posted by weston at 6:13 PM on May 25, 2006

Five languages: English , French , Bengali (damn, done above), Irish (aon, do, tri, ceathair, cuig, se, seacht, ocht, naoi, dech) and Spanish.

I could probably do one, two, three in a few more thhough.
posted by jamesonandwater at 6:21 PM on May 25, 2006

hungarian (phoenitically) edge, ketto, harum, neige, ert, hut, heet, nyolch, kirenz and tees

Post a crap question, get crap answers, I suppose. Jesus.
posted by Wolfdog at 6:31 PM on May 25, 2006

English

French

German

Spanish

and

Thai...

Noon song Saam Sii Ha Hock Chet Bpadt Gaeow Sip

I think...
posted by gergtreble at 6:32 PM on May 25, 2006

Tongan.

Taha, ua, tolu, faa, nima, ono, fitu, valu, hiva, hongofulu.
posted by po at 6:34 PM on May 25, 2006

spanish: uno dos tres quatro cinco seis siete ocho nueve diez

farsi: yek do se chahar panj sheesh haft hasht noh dah

arabic: wahed ithnain theletha arba'a khamsa sita seba'a thamania tisa'a ashara

french: (can't spell them right but) un duex trois quatre cinc sis sept huit neuf dix
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 6:36 PM on May 25, 2006

Meta
posted by occhiblu at 6:39 PM on May 25, 2006

I forgot I could do Turkish and Hungarian. But those too.
posted by oaf at 6:41 PM on May 25, 2006