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ellegarden
Joined: 01 Sep 2007
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 Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:53 pm Post subject: What time is this? 3:45 |
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Why do younger students make the mistake of saying:
Thirty forty-five?
I had two students say 4:35 was
It's forty thirty-five.
THey know how to count to 100 and they can tell time in Korean, how does this mistake originate? |
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BS.Dos.
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Quarter to four. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:07 pm Post subject: Re: What time is this? 3:45 |
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| ellegarden wrote: |
Why do younger students make the mistake of saying:
Thirty forty-five? |
For the same reason the older co-teachers do, I guess. |
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cvmurrieta
Joined: 02 Mar 2009
Location: Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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| 3:45 means only one more hour of work for me |
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the oak llama
Joined: 05 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:12 am Post subject: |
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do they have trouble saying the time in general?
or just with 3 and 4?
In Korean they use Native Korean numbers to count the hours and Sino-Korean numbers to count the minutes.
Sino-Korean numbers are based on groups of tens until you get into the thousands I think.
It might be confusing for them for that reason.
Or maybe they just confuse three with thirty and four with forty, which wouldn't be that hard to do if you think about it. |
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