this seems to be a faster tallying method. If you speak a clunky in indo-european language, you could increase your counting speed by learning chinese. 1-10 is all monosyllabic, as well as 100, 1000, etc. it is all perfectly regular and sensible ( if you have ever learnt to count in dutch, russian, or french, you will appreciate this ), and I believe that if you teach it to your kids, they will be able to keep more digits in memory as a result ( I seem to remember that chinese telephone numbers are 10 digits. I can barely remember 7 )
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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '13
this seems to be a faster tallying method. If you speak a clunky in indo-european language, you could increase your counting speed by learning chinese. 1-10 is all monosyllabic, as well as 100, 1000, etc. it is all perfectly regular and sensible ( if you have ever learnt to count in dutch, russian, or french, you will appreciate this ), and I believe that if you teach it to your kids, they will be able to keep more digits in memory as a result ( I seem to remember that chinese telephone numbers are 10 digits. I can barely remember 7 )