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I always thought Chinese signs were too difficult. No! Easy-peasy.
Answer
Then I discovered that the numbers one to three were just horizontal lines and the symbol for ten looks like a plus sign.
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Friday, October 5, 2018
How to read Dates And Opening Times In Chinese
I always thought Chinese signs were too difficult. No! Easy-peasy.
Answer
Then I discovered that the numbers one to three were just horizontal lines and the symbol for ten looks like a plus sign.
Monday, August 1, 2016
More handy Welsh words: Numbers 1-10,1000, weekdays months
English - Numbers 1-10, 100, 1000
one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
one hundred
a thousand
Welsh - Numbers
un dau Tri pedwar pump chwech saith wyth naw deg
cant
mil
English - Weekdays and Weekends
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Saturday Sunday
weekend
weekends
open
closed
Welsh - Weekdays and Weekends
Yn ystod yr wythnos ac ar benwythnosau
Llun Mawrth Mercher Iau Gwener
Dydd Sul Dydd Sadwrn
penwythnos
penwythnosau
agored
ar gau
yn - in
yr - the
Months
January February March
April May June
July August September
October November December
Misoedd
Ionawr Chwefror Mawrth
Ebrill Mai Mehefin
Gorffennaf Awst Medi
Hydref Tachwedd Rhagfyr
How do you remember the months in Welsh?
Memory Aids For Months In Welsh
January
Ionawr looks and sound like January. I and J are similar tall letters and close together, adjacent, in the alphabet, I J.
February
- the Welsh word has an F. The Welsh has r o r like r - u r (y).
March
in English looks like the same letters in Welsh MA.R.H Just stick in w and end in TH instead of CH.
April
E - brill - in Welsh sounds like a - April in English.
May
Mai in Welsh is the same sound and appearance as May in English. I and Y are interchangeable in many languages.
June
ends in N, as does Mehefin.
July
= gorgeous fruit month, FF, 'Cor - cannot get enough!" Gor - ff e n n a f.
August
A w s t = August . Both start with A, sound AW, and end with ST.
September
Medi is not the middle of the summer but the end, September.
October
H y d r e f - High trees, leaves drift (d r e f) down in autumn or as the Americans say, the Fall , the word Fall ends in F but Hydref ends in F.
November is Tachwedd (tacky cheap wedding in November when price is low, summer gone and just before the busy, pricey Xmas season.
English Open/Closed
Closed Christmas
and
New Year's Day
Welsh Open/Closed
Ar gau Nadolig
ac
Dydd Calan
I typed the English into my blog first, copied it into Google translate, then copied the Welsh.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, language teacher.
one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
one hundred
a thousand
Welsh - Numbers
un dau Tri pedwar pump chwech saith wyth naw deg
cant
mil
English - Weekdays and Weekends
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Saturday Sunday
weekend
weekends
open
closed
Welsh - Weekdays and Weekends
Yn ystod yr wythnos ac ar benwythnosau
Llun Mawrth Mercher Iau Gwener
Dydd Sul Dydd Sadwrn
penwythnos
penwythnosau
agored
ar gau
yn - in
yr - the
Months
January February March
April May June
July August September
October November December
Misoedd
Ionawr Chwefror Mawrth
Ebrill Mai Mehefin
Gorffennaf Awst Medi
Hydref Tachwedd Rhagfyr
How do you remember the months in Welsh?
Memory Aids For Months In Welsh
January
Ionawr looks and sound like January. I and J are similar tall letters and close together, adjacent, in the alphabet, I J.
February
- the Welsh word has an F. The Welsh has r o r like r - u r (y).
March
in English looks like the same letters in Welsh MA.R.H Just stick in w and end in TH instead of CH.
April
E - brill - in Welsh sounds like a - April in English.
May
Mai in Welsh is the same sound and appearance as May in English. I and Y are interchangeable in many languages.
June
ends in N, as does Mehefin.
July
= gorgeous fruit month, FF, 'Cor - cannot get enough!" Gor - ff e n n a f.
August
A w s t = August . Both start with A, sound AW, and end with ST.
September
Medi is not the middle of the summer but the end, September.
October
H y d r e f - High trees, leaves drift (d r e f) down in autumn or as the Americans say, the Fall , the word Fall ends in F but Hydref ends in F.
November is Tachwedd (tacky cheap wedding in November when price is low, summer gone and just before the busy, pricey Xmas season.
December
Rhagfyr - Running R.AGged shopping For holidays and new YeaR.English Open/Closed
Closed Christmas
and
New Year's Day
Welsh Open/Closed
Ar gau Nadolig
ac
Dydd Calan
I typed the English into my blog first, copied it into Google translate, then copied the Welsh.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, language teacher.
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