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Multilingual people, do you feel better about yourself than those that only speak one language? Monolingual people, do you envy/admire Multilingual people? And why? (sh.itjust.works)
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Also include the list of languages you can understand.

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I grew up with Russian and German and I cannot put it into words, but as a kid I was 100% certain that this helped me with math. It is almost like - I subconsciously knew I could approach something (like something I wanted to express) from two very different ways (two different languages), this translated to the way I approached a math problem.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'm pretty sure that this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_multiplication_table#The_Nine-nine_song_text_in_Chinese helped me with multiplication a lot.

    Like its just easier to remember 5 syllables (七七四十九) rather than "se-ven times se-ven e-quals four-ty-nine" (10 syllabels)

    They made us do rote memorization lol 💀, but I guess... it sort of worked... 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I personally don't think 7 as "seven" or "siete" or "zazpi". 7 is 7. When learning big number combinations where you put both numbers on top and do it by 10s, I'm in numbers, not in the name of the numbers. I bet learning more than 1 language since I was a toddler enabled the flexibility to then learn the " math language" lol.

    When I imagine 5x7 in my brain the answer is 35, not thirty-five (30+5), treinta y cinco(30+5) or hogei ta amabost (20+15 = 20 +10 + 5 don't ask xD).

    7x7 is 47, not berhogeitazazpi (2x20+7), there's no math link between 7x7 and 2x20+7 besides that the result is the same.

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