Le 10 mars 15 à 21:44, Piers HEMY a écrit :
Are you sure that ni is 2, Phillipe?
Yes
Alexandre, one of my son's was 2 when I worked with a Japanese company
(Panasonic if you should know) and I had friendly relations with the
executives then.
Alex spent a weekend afternoon in our garden with a Japanese engineer
who didn't speak a word of French, nor English by the way while the
rest of us were having sake and whisky ...
A couple of days later when I tried to check if he (my son) could
count up to five in French (his mother was German and only spoke with
him in German) I was stunned to discover that the little one had
picked up counting in Japanese faster than in my own language - itch,
ni, san, yon, go, etc ...
On top of his "mother/father tongues" he now speaks English, Farsi and
I DK which other languages I don't master myself :-)
Proof of the pudding is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_numerals
Amities
Ph
One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible
to the eye. Antoine de Saint Exupéry in Le Petit Prince.
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