Counting in five different languages

English, Spanish, French, Arabic, and Japanese. Those are the languages that Ethan knows how to count on.
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He learned most of these from Youtube on the Phone. He'd watch counting videos again and again, regardless of language, and soon after, he's already memorized the numbers.

  • In English, as of June, he can count from 0 - 100, then followed by the hundreds (200-900), and the number 2000, 2010, and 2011. He can also count backwards and do simple maths, like addition of 1s, multiplication of 2s (up to 12 x 2), and he can spell and write the words ONE to TWENTY.
  • In Spanish, he counts from Uno (1) to Dose (12). He can actually identify the numbers, like ask him what the spanish of 8 is and he will answer otso. If he sees 947, he will say Nueve, Quarto, Siete. Of course, he says it this way - nebe, kwakko, syebe. He watches a lot of Spanish videos, but this one I remember hearing him sing along to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ydJr1Is8xI
  • In French, he just counts from Un (1) to seize (16). He can only count sequential numbers though and cannot name a random number yet. He learned it from this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywIWYKamyCY
  • In Arabic, he learned from this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6P0CEJk--I. He just imitates the sound and it's really cute when he does this. I have once heard him calling a random number using Arabic. But he doesn't do this often.
  • In Japanese, he sings with this video: and occasionally uses it to count sequentially.

He also listens and mumbles Tagalog and Chinese numbers but that's more signing than really counting.

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