Domo arrigato Amard-san.
Maybe the phone number was 5523!
And my congratulations on such s multilingual family.
Piers
On 10 March 2015 21:15:01 GMT+00:00, "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
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>Le 10 mars 15 à 21:44, Piers HEMY a écrit :
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>> Are you sure that ni is 2, Phillipe?
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>Yes
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>Alexandre, one of my son's was 2 when I worked with a Japanese company
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>(Panasonic if you should know) and I had friendly relations with the
>executives then.
>Alex spent a weekend afternoon in our garden with a Japanese engineer
>who didn't speak a word of French, nor English by the way while the
>rest of us were having sake and whisky ...
>A couple of days later when I tried to check if he (my son) could
>count up to five in French (his mother was German and only spoke with
>him in German) I was stunned to discover that the little one had
>picked up counting in Japanese faster than in my own language - itch,
>ni, san, yon, go, etc ...
>On top of his "mother/father tongues" he now speaks English, Farsi and
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>I DK which other languages I don't master myself :-)
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>Proof of the pudding is here:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_numerals
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>Amities
>Ph
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>One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible
>to the eye. Antoine de Saint Exupéry in Le Petit Prince.
>NO ARCHIVE
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