Meeting numero tre (learning how to count) - Italian/Dutch

The third meeting we had, we decided to learn each other how to count.
This was not very easy for me, I think almost everyone knows at least a couple of numbers in Spanish and maybe some in Italian. Another problem is that they are very similar, so they are easy to mix up.

We went over them a couple of times together and then tried repeating them.
First I tried the Italian, since we are focussing most on Italian. I kept mixing up some numbers for the Spanish ones. But after a couple of tries, it went more and more fluent.

After that we tried the Spanish one as well, I was able to repeat this one a little more fluent than the Italian one, I think the cause of this might be that Spanish is a language that is used more commonly than Italian. But I decided to try the Italian one some more and I started mixing them up again, so I decided to keep my focus on the Italian one.

Then I decided to teach her the Dutch numbers up until 11. She was very good at it, except for one number, this is because they don’t have the same sound for the letter ‘g’ in Italian. That’s why number 9 (negen) was very difficult for her.

In the end we were both pretty fluent. To remember them for longer, we wrote them down on paper (see pictures).

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