Six different languages

Today I realized that I know how to count to ten in six languages!  I will list them and then tell you why I know them and how you pronounce them.

1. English -- This one is obvious

2. German -- I know German because I lived there for a year.
  inse, svy, dri, fear, funf, zex, seben, act, noen, zen

3. Korean -- I know Korean because in Tae kwon do we have to count in Korean when we stretch.
  hana, doo, set, net, tasa, yasa, ilgo, yodo, aho, yo

4. Hawaiian -- I know Hawaiian because, like Tae kwon do, in Hula we count in Hawaiian when we stretch.
  ekahi, eluah, ekolu, eha, elima, eono, ehiku, evalu, eeva, umi

5. Tagalog -- I know Tagalog because I am half Filipino.
  esa, delewa, tatlo, apat, lema, anem, peto, walo, seam, sampo

6. Spanish -- I know Spanish because everybody knows Spanish!
  uno, does, thres, kuatro, sinco, seies, seete, ocho, neweve, dies


Languages are based on family groups. Here you can see the family groups of the languages I know.

• Austronesian
• Malayo-Polynesian
• Oceanic
• Polynesian
• Eastern Polynesian
• Marquesic
• Hawaiian
• Philippine
• Central Philippine
• Tagalog
• Altaic
• Koreanic
• Korean
• Indo-European
• Germanic
• West Germanic
• High German
• German
• Ingvaeonic
• Anglo-Frisian
• Anglic
• English
• Romance
• Western Romance
• Ibero-Romance
• West-Iberian
• Castillian languages
• Spanish

Some random thoughts on these languages:

• As you can tell, German is similar (kind of) to English.
• You may not of noticed, but 1-9 in Hawaiian all start with the -ea sound.
• English is spoken differently in different countries (England: queue and the US: line). But even in the US people speak English differently. Here is a website you can try out: dialect quiz.  When I took the quiz, based on my answers, it knew I grew up in California.
• Korea uses a different alphabet.
• There is a game named after uno(one).
• Some of my family members (such as my grandma) still speak Tagalog even though they live in the US.

Things I learned in Montana about guns

Things I learned about guns:

• When someone hands you a gun, make sure there are no bullets in it (even if they tell you there aren't any).
• Never point the gun at anybody even if there are NOT any bullets in it.
• For the safety -- F or a red circle means that if you pull the trigger it will shoot a bullet.  White or green means that you can't pull the trigger (it's locked).  Even then, don't point the gun at any one.
• Never shoot into the sky because you never know where it will land.
• Handle bullets with care even if they are not in a gun.
• Always know what is behind your target as well.
• Never shoot at anything that may ricochet the bullet.
• Shotgun shells have a bunch of small bullets instead of a single bullet like a rifle shell does.

Thank you Uncle Korey and Dad for teaching me about guns!