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Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Arabic numerals lesson
Here's a quick Arabic numerals lesson:
0 – ٠
1 – ١
2 – ٢
3 – ٣
4 – ٤
5 – ٥
6 – ٦
7 – ٧
8 – ٨
9 – ٩
I don’t know if these fonts will actually come across on the blog but it shows just how much more of a challenge it is to learn a foreign language that also uses a foreign alphabet. Since their numbers’ symbols are different than ours, it makes it more difficult for us to record people’s license plates and what not. You often have guys calling from a guard shack saying things like, "The vehicle is broken down outside the gate and it’s a blue Opel van. License plate is, ah… ‘Dot, backwards seven… ah, backwards three, V, upside down V… Dot."
0 – ٠
1 – ١
2 – ٢
3 – ٣
4 – ٤
5 – ٥
6 – ٦
7 – ٧
8 – ٨
9 – ٩
I don’t know if these fonts will actually come across on the blog but it shows just how much more of a challenge it is to learn a foreign language that also uses a foreign alphabet. Since their numbers’ symbols are different than ours, it makes it more difficult for us to record people’s license plates and what not. You often have guys calling from a guard shack saying things like, "The vehicle is broken down outside the gate and it’s a blue Opel van. License plate is, ah… ‘Dot, backwards seven… ah, backwards three, V, upside down V… Dot."
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