Counting Differences Between 9 Countries! Why French Count Different? 

The Indonesian girl got it right about the French counting: people don't think about it, they just know the number's name.

As a French native, the Indonesian girl is totally right. I think I was in already in my last years of high school when I realized the deal with 70-80-90 by seeing a meme in English on the Internet. Before that, I didn’t think about it and just treated them as the name of the numbers.

The "It's cent..." moment is legendary!

I'm disappointed that we didn't hear the Welsh numbers despite the flag in the thumbnail. There are some peculiarities. For masculine objects 1-10 is "un, dau, tri, pedwar, pum(p), chwe(ch), saith, wyth, naw, deg". For feminine objects 2, 3 and 4 are different: "dwy, tair, pedair". For 11 or higher numbers you can use decimal (based on 10s) or vigesimal (based on 20s) system, for instance 15 is "un deg pump" (literally "one ten five") in decimal or "pymtheg" in vigesimal and 21 is "dau ddeg un" (literally "two ten one") in decimal or "un ar hugain" (literally "one on twenty") in vigesimal.

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For french, the way we say numbers depends on the country. In France and old french colonies one says "soixante-dix, quatre-vingt, quatre-vingt-dix" (60+10, 4x20, 4x20+10). In Belgium, in Switzerland (Berne, Genève, Neuchâtel, Jura) and old belgian colonies, one says "septante, quatre-vingt, nonante" (70, 4x20, 90). In Switzerland (Fribourg, Vaud, Valais) one says "septante, huitante, nonante" (70, 80, 90). Very easy lol

In french, you can use the wallon and swiss way to say these numbers : septante (70), octante (80), nonante (90). A french will understand. The video was funny, thanks !

Swiss French numbers are more similar to English numbers than French numbers above sixty, which use a vigesimal system based on twenty. For example, in French, seventy is soixante-dix, which means "sixty-ten" and eighty is quatre-vingts, which means "four twenties". In Swiss French, seventy is septante, eighty is huitante, and ninety is nonante, which are words that are similar in construction to the numbers thirty through sixty which is way simpler, in my opinion.

8:45 LOL, the German girl assumed that German numbers are just like English numbers, but then the Indonesian girl corrected her 😂 These differences are more noticeable to foreigners. As an Indonesian learning German, I was frustrated to discover that, unlike in English, the ones come before the tens. So instead of “eighty-two,” you say "zweiundachtzig" - literally “two-and-eighty” 😵‍💫 3:29 Maybe the Spanish girl assumed that it was difficult because she’s not familiar with the sound of the language, but indeed Indonesian numbers are super easy. Unlike English, we don’t have special names for certain numbers like “eleven” and “twelve” because for the teens we just use “-belas,” and for the tens, it’s just “-puluh.” Spanish numbers are even more confusing. Numbers 11 to 15 follow one pattern (once, doce, trece, catorce, quince), while 16 to 19 follow a different one (dieciséis, diecisiete, dieciocho, diecinueve). When I first started learning Spanish, this was really hard for me. In Indonesian we certainly don’t have confusing numbers like in French, where "soixante-dix" means seventy (literally sixty-ten) and "quatre-vingt-dix" means ninety (literally four times twenty plus ten). 😂

5:23 Indonesian in general we dont considered 4 as Bad luck number, only chinese descent did! But yes there are many buildings replace number 4 with 3A

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Disappointed that the Welsh girl didn't talk about Welsh number because it's interesting they use 20 base number system like the latter half of French double digits but they do that from the start.

The vigsimal system of France was much more used in old times. There is famous hospital in Paris which is called "Hopital des Quinze-Vingts" (hospital of the fifteen-twenty) which was called that way because it was built for 300 beds (15x20=300).

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Kalau pada Bahasa Indonesia, angka 8 disebut "delapan", tapi orang-orang Indonesia kadang mempersingkat penyebutannya menjadi "lapan", terutama digunakan sewaktu berhitung. Sama halnya ketika berhitung dengan angka-angka lainnya, apalagi berhitung cepat, yang semulanya: "Satu, dua, tiga, empat, lima, enam, tujuh, delapan, sembilan, sepuluh" menjadi... "tu, wa, ga, pat, ma, nam, juh, pan, mblan, puh" Berlaku juga untuk angka-angka selanjutnya: 20,..., 25,..., 28,..., 30,..., 32,..., 45,... etc. "Dua puluh satu, dua puluh lima, dua puluh delapan, tiga puluh, tiga puluh dua, empat puluh lima, dst." Menjadi... "Dua satu (2 & 1), dua lima (2 & 5), dua delapan/dua lapan (2 & 8), dst." 😄

6:55 There is a very old game of chance in Brazil called jogo do bicho, in this game the number 24 is the deer, and the deer in Brazil is associated with gays because of the delicate and bouncy aspects and the film Bambi

You should continue with Basque (40=2x20, 60=3x20, 80=4x20, 50=2x20+10), Ainu (51=3x20-10+1) and Mansi (21 = 1 towards 30). In Finnish, 11 is literally "1 from the second", historically 21 was "1 from the third", nowadays it is 2x10+1. Danish is similar to German until 49, then 51=1+half-third (originally 1+half-third times 20), 61=1+three(times 20), 71 = 1+half-fourth(times 20) etc.

In Brazil some people use to say "meia" (half) instead of "6". It refers to "half dozen". I think ist's because we speak "trêis" (3) instead of "três". so people don't have to ask us to repeat just to be sure if we are speaking 3 (Três/trêis) or 6 (seis). I just assume that this is the reason.

9:21 In Switzerland we say septante for 70

How can Spanish girl say Indonesian count is hard, we only give "belas" and "puluh" in number after Ten. The key is just to know the count from 1 to 10 in Indonesian language.😅 Example 1 = Satu 2 = Dua 3 = Tiga 4 = Empat 5 = Lima Etc ... 11 = Sebelas (exception for eleven) 12 = Dua "belas" 13 = Tiga "belas" 14 = Empat "belas" Etc ... 21 = Dua "puluh" satu 22 = Dua "puluh" dua 23 = Dua "puluh" tiga Etc ... 32 = Tiga "Puluh" dua 33 = Tiga "Puluh" tiga 34 = Tiga "Puluh" empat Etc ...

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You know?? All of you guys missed 0.. So, how do you guys spell 0?? In Indonesian 🇮🇩 it is spelled "Nol".. Also : -2 : Negatif Dua ½ : Setengah (literally "Se" means 1 n "Tengah" means "Middle") 0,5 : Setengah or "Nol koma lima" ⅓ : Sepertiga (literally "Se" means 1, "Per" n "Tiga" means 3) ¼ : Seperempat (Se+per+empat) 0,25 : Seperempat or "Nol koma dua puluh lima" or "Nol koma dua lima"

English used to do a similar thing. For example, the opening of the Gettysburg Address is "Four-score and seven years ago..." Score, in this context, means twenty. It was a way to sound fancy and educated. It works. Had Lincoln just said "Eighty-Seven years ago, people would not have listened as intently.

French numbers in Belgium are easier Now I know how to speak French, but back when I was working as a Tourism Entertainer in a Tossa de Mar's (Costa Brava) Hotel, I learnt the numbers in French from France up until 90 to play bingo, and one day I had some Belgians and Frenchs playing bingo, it was a nightmare.

French numbers feel similar to Latin numbers III=3 V=5 IV=4 X=10 VIII=IIX=8 etc....

If you think french numbers are messed up, think about the roman ones !!! 😁

10:43 In Belgium we also speak French (Wallon) but we say 60 = soixante, 70 = septante, 80 = quatre-vingt (never heard of huitante), 90 = nonante, 100 = cent. We also speak dutch and German but that's the same as other countries with those languages.

In Vietnamese , we can do like cantonese :hai-mốt (21, two-one),... and we use this in the formal speech too , not just a slang.

Go to Belgium or Switzerland where they say septante, huitante, octante, nonante….

This French way of counting certainly comes from the Gauls, who counted in twenties rather than tens.

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it's "cent" love it ♥

I'm disappointed that there was a Welsh flag on the thumbnail, but no Welsh. The traditional vegisimal numbers are pretty interesting. There are also different forms of many numbers as well which get used differently in various situations. 1 Un 2 Dau / Dwy 3 Tri / Tair 4 Pedwar / Pedair 5 Pump 6 Chwech 7 Saith 8 Wyth 9 Naw 10 Deg 11 Unarddeg / Un deg un 12 Deuddeg / Un deg dau 13 Tri ar ddeg / Un deg tri 14 Pedwar ar ddeg / Un deg pedwar 15 Pymtheg / Un deg pump 16 Un ar bymtheg / Un deg chwech 17 Dwy a'r bymtheg / Un deg saith 18 Deunaw / Un deg wyth 19 Pedwar ar bymtheg / Un deg naw 20 Hugain / Dau ddeg 21 Un ar hugain / Dau ddeg un 22 Dau ar hugain / Dau ddeg dau 23 Tri ar hugain / Dau ddeg tri 24 Pedwar ar hugain / Dau ddeg pedwar 25 Pump ar hugain / Dau ddeg pump 26 Chwech ar hugain / Dau ddeg chwech 27 Saith ar hugain / Dau ddeg saith 28 Wyth ar hugain / Dau ddeg wyth 29 Naw ar hugain / Dau ddeg naw 30 Deg ar hugain / Trideg 40 Deugain / Pedwar deg 60 Trigain ...

The Cantonese system seems really similar to Vietnamese. For numbers larger than 20, you can add or drop the "ten" word. For example, 26 is "hai mươi sáu" or just "hai sáu".

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Em japonês contar é muito difícil! Tem muitas formas de falar dependendo do que você está contando. Ichi, ni, san Hitotsu, futatsu, mitsu Ippon, nihon, sanbon Ikko, nikko, sankko Ippiki, nihhiki, sanbiki E assim vai … ichimai, hitori, hitokire, hitokuchi, ichou….. nem sei mais

interesting about brazilian number 7, I used to work for one poker company and there was no 7 place tables never in any case, it is British-Israeli company and I got explanation because 7 considered as lucky number our company doesn't have such place on tables :)

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What I thought China would say for the forty’s F0(40)F1(41)F2(42)F3(43)FF(44)F5(45)F6(46)F7(47)F8(48)F9(49)😂

In some French variation theer are : septante (70), octante (80), nonante (90).

What a great video!!!😂

In German you can use for 2 "zwo" to distinguish from "zwei" and "drei"

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The french language does heave actually words for 70- 99, but they are used in certain regoins. 70: septante 80: huitante 90: nonante being comparable to seventy, eighty, and ninety.

English has changed counting. We used to count like the Germans saying 5 and 20 Blackbirds as the nursery rhyme goes but over time we moved to the Latin based 25. Same with Counting tens, only this time we started with French numbering and have moved to a more Spanish type. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the Gettysburg Address “Four score and seven years ago…” While the Govt tried to impose metric on the people we got it stopped. So we still have Score for 20, Dozen for Twelve, Grand for Thousand etc. History is still there.

I remember studying French in high, after nine the language goes into la-la land.

French isn't the worst offender, it's Danish... Want to know what 70 is in Danish? It's Halvfyrsindtyve. Half Four Times Twenty.

J'ai à peine vu la miniature, j'ai explosé de rire😂. Jamais compris pourquoi on utilise des mots si compliqués pour dire 70, 80 et 90.

10:23 Jung a covers her ears when Julia talk and I agree with her… 😂

I’m Cantonese and this is just so funny

in belgian french we don't say "soixante dix" or "quatre vingt dix" but simply "septante" or "nonante"

The problem learning french nummers is not that they use 4x20 nor are 60+10 and 4x20+10 any problemen, the problems are 60+11,60+12 etc., the speed with which french people speak and also the French habit to split phone numbers in two digits so there is ambiguity if someone means 60 10 or 60+10=70

seeing chinese number lesson turn me into Windows version mahjong game😢

There's another thing that makes Chinese super efficient for numbers: Our number words don't change when talking about order. We just add the word 第(dì) and people know you are talking about order, not amount. So when I first learned English, it was really a nightmare to know there are things like first, second, third, fourth, and one hundred and sixty-fourth.

In french and basque we count the same way 😅

over the years and conquests french mixed roman numbers (base 10) and celtic/gaulish numbers which are on base 20 ( 60 was 3x20, 40 was 2x20, then add 10 for the intermediate numbers) some part got taken over by the base 10 roman/latin numbers, septante and nonante came later and when some countries took the french language, they picked the most recent system (post 1789) with septante, huitante/octante, nonante instead of the gaulish base 20 numbers/system that french used for centuries.

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Yeah we learn number as name not calculation. And the reason why they have this name: Before, part of Gaule used to count in base 20 and it remains traces of it. To this day, Alaska native count in its base also or Babylonian counted in base 60. It's not uncommon.

It’s funny because if they put someone from Belgium they would see the difference between French for counting

For those who think this is a weird way to count, replace 20 by 100. Is "Four-Twenty-Nine" more weird than "Four Hundred and Nine"? Exactly the same construction.

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Seems like the German Girl had been forced to get involved in the discussion😂

When a Frenchman asks you what is the largest two digit prime number (97), just say 4, 20, 10, 7 !

german is easier hearing than reading, french is easier reading than hearing 😁 I have two questions: - french left me thinking about prime numbers, so like 79 or 97. Do you say 4x20+10+2*3+1 or something rude like that? - in english I see people saying "fifteen hundred" instead of "a thousand and five hundred". When do you switch from hundreds to actually saying thousands? And is it a thing in the european english or only usa?

Numbers in Japanese are very easy, BUT how to count things… that’s a whole another story

I know the girl was from France but anytime they do stuff like that they should also include the variation accross the borders in Belgium(BE) and Swizerland (CH). 70 (septante in BE and CH) 80 (octante in BE, huitante in CH) 90 (Nonante mainli in CH, but also in BE). Some of yjese also occur in francophone Africa. Also it is worth noting that up to 20, with exception of 11 and 12 in English?German/Dutch, All these numbers in European languages are adding 1 - 9 to the number to 1. 13 is literally three ("and/after/over/from/plus" however you care to look at it) ten Then in the germanic languages 20 - 90 are literally 2 through 9 plus a drivitive of thhe word ten 9 (two ten, three ten etc.)

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Awwww...they got so close to the French way of saying 99, but skipped over it.

Wait.. What about the numbers in Welsh?

But in belgium or switherland, they say : septante for 70 and nonante for 90. Like in France we Say soixante for 60 ^^

I’m from Bangladesh but live in USA and I can speak Hindi, English, Espanhol, Portuguese and bangla.

For french in Belgium, 70 and 90 are easier : 70 is septente (7*10) vs soixante-dix (60+10) in France 90 is nonente (9*10) vs quatre-vingt-dix (4*20+10) in France But 80 stay the same 😅

The Danes have similar system to French, it confuses the hell out of me.

Let’s talk about Danemark now

Inconformado que a brasileira falou do número 24 😮

Historically french used the viscesimal counting system (counting by twenties), because back in this time people counted on their hands plus their feet. So, to say 312 in old french it's "quinze-vingt douze" (15x20+12).

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Finally we get Cantonese

Actually Indonesian also uses mathematics.. "Puluh" literally means "Tens", so "10" or you can say "10¹".. "Belas" literally means "Mercy", if you have mercy then you will give someone, so "+n ".. "Ratus" literally means "Cent", so "100" or "10²".. "Ribu" literally means "Mile", so "1000" or "10³".. Look : ◽10 : Sepuluh (literally means 1x10¹) ◽12 : Dua Belas (literally means 10+2) ◽23 : Dua Puluh Tiga (literally means 2x10¹+3) ◽325 : Tiga Ratus Dua Puluh Lima (literally means (3x10²)+(2x10¹+5)) ◽2124 : Dua Ribu Seratus Dua Puluh Empat (literally means (2x10³)+(1x10²)+(2x10¹+4)).. wkwkwkwk 😂🤣🤭 It seems like all languages have mathematics in their number system.. Including English : 325 : Three Hundred and Twenty Five (literally means (3x10²)+(2x10¹+5)) Idk why is there an anomaly with 11 (eleven) n 12 (twelve).. 🥴

Ainda bem que eu não preciso fazer equações matemáticas em frances 😅

2:37 "I HAVE A PLAN ARTHUR" MENTIONED

English speakers: Why are decimals called that? It's it related to decimate? Decibel? Why is a mile called that? Millennium? Milliliter? Millimeter? Why is a century called that? Is it related to cent? Percent? Romance languages speakers: isn't that obvious? It's in the word itself!

Danish: Hold my beer...

In portuguese: 1 - Um, 2 - Dois, 3 - Três, 4 - Quatro, 5 - Cinco, 6 - Seis, 7 - Sete, 8 - Oito, 9 - Nove, 10 - Dez 11 - Onze = 1 + 10 12 - Doze = 2 + 10 13 - Treze = 3 + 10 14 - Quatorze = 4 + 10 15 - Quinze = 5 + 10 16 - Dezesseis = 10 and 6 17 - Dezessete = 10 and 7 18 - Dezoito = 10 + 8 19 - Dezenove = 10 and 9 20 - Vinte = 2 × 10 30 - Trinta = 3 × 10 40 - Quarenta = 4 × 10 50 - Cinquenta = 5 × 10 ... 100 - Cem 1000 - Mil 1000000 - Um Milhão ... Most of the names of the numbers was very simplified so they dont look be what they really means.

I am starting to think French way of counting might como from basque… In basque all numbers up to 20 are normal, but then is like the French 70 or 80. Even 30 is 20+10, 40 is two times 20 an so on until 99

Why did the Welsh Gog not count and explain that the system in Welsh is quite similar to the French? In fact it is even more complicated. 78, for example, is tair ar bumtheg a thrigain or three and five and ten and three twenties. 99 is easy, though. It's cant namun un or 100 less one. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

You messed up the thumbnail by putting the Welsh flag for the woman representing English.

I think German and French was super 🎉🎉😊😊

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i love u = 520 in chinese

sacrilegious, doing this episode without a dane

Disappointed that there wasn’t any Welsh despite the Welsh flag being in the thumbnail. I think our language is pretty interesting despite sounding very gibberish

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Then people tell you that learning Spanish and Portuguese are difficult....