I CAN COUNT MWAHAHAHA

Hey howdy hey. (Super great way to start an entry.) So if you read the title, I'm pretty sure you can guess what this entry is about. (Hopefully your comprehension skills are decent.) Before I made this entry, I could count to, like, twelve in Tagalog.

I know. So fun, right? I got mad language skills. But even then I was so confused.

Apparently, Tagalog has two number systems. Of course, the one that's used most is entirely in Tagalog, and is used for counting, telling the date, and telling time (in certain situations). Here's a little table to help you memorize it:

zero	wala
one	isa
two	dalawa
three	tatlo
four	apat
five	lima
six	anim
seven	pito
eight	walo
nine	siyam
ten	sampu
eleven	labing-isa
twelve	labing-dalawa
thirteen	labing-tatlo
twenty	dalawampu
twenty-one	dalawampu’t isa
thirty	tatlumpu
thirty-one	tatlumpu’t isa
forty	apatnapu
forty-one	apatnapu’t isa
fifty	limampu
fifty-one	limampu’t isa
sixty	animnapu
sixty-one	animnapu’t isa
seventy	pitumpu
seventy-one	pitumpu’t isa
eighty	walumpu
eighty-one	walumpu’t isa
ninety	siyamnapu
ninety-one	siyamnapu’t isa
one hundred	isang daan

I lied the table actually wasn't that little. Oops.

The other system borrows a lot of numbers from Spanish, but most of them are spelled differently. Look at the spolling. Just look at it.

zero	sero
one	uno
two	dos
three	tres
four	kwatro
five	sinko
six	sais
seven	siyete
eight	otso
nine	nuwebe
ten	diyes
eleven	onse
twelve	dose
thirteen	trese
twenty	beynte
twenty-one	beynteuno
thirty	trenta
thirty-one	trentauno
forty	kwarenta
forty-one	kwarentauno
fifty	singkwenta
fifty-one	singkwentauno
sixty	seisenta
sixty-one	seisentauno
seventy	setenta
seventy-one	setentauno
eighty	otsenta
eighty-one	otsentauno
ninety	nobenta
ninety-one	nobentauno
one hundred	siyento

So, now then I found myself getting lost between three number systems: the Tagalog system, the Taglalog/Spanish system, and the Spanish system. It just makes counting really awkward for me. I have to take ten-second-long pauses between numbers to make sure that I'm not about to mess with my "mad language skills."

Guh. Why, Tagalog, why?

Anyway, I'm getting a lot better now. I can count to one hundred since I've been using this Tagalog-teaching app and numbers from this link: http://www.omniglot.com/language/numbers/tagalog.htm. Although I still have those really awkward pauses. I guess that I'll just keep on practicing it and maybe do some counting everyday to get used to it.