Learning Journal #12

[Byongho Lee]

This week, I focused on specifically on numbers. I have always found numbers fascinating because in the English language, we build upon each number such as one, one-hundred, one-thousand. I believe that each language does this, but in the Czech language this is extremely emphasized. Yedna, meaning one, has multiple ending attached to it to increase the value of the number. For example, yednact means eleven, while dvacet yedna is twenty one. This style of adding words upon basic values must have roots in mathematics because people often call math the universal language. When I was studying numbers in Czech, I often myself saying "this is easy" because the system of numbers is similar across languages.