To be fair, zero is a complicated number

  • lobut@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    It probably sounds silly but I quite enjoy not memorizing different names for days of the weeks and months like when I was learning french … Lundi, Mardi …

    Nice to be like 星期一,星期二,星期三 … for week days and 一月,二月,三月… for months.

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      6 months ago

      Same, and not having to remember different versions of words for tense and gender is great. Where Chinese gets you back though, is measure words. Is a can of beans many 颗? 粒? One 包? Oh I was supposed to remember 罐?

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      6 months ago

      I like how in French it’s almost the same as in English. Monday = Moon Day = Lunar Day = Lundi
      Tuesday = Tyr’s Day = Mars’ Day (both being the god of war) = Mardi