Counting From One to Five in Russia

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Counting From One to Five in Russia

From the heat, orient, and colors, let’s move up to the cold and magnificent Russia. No matter if you are fluent and know even the curse words in Russian, we bet you don’t know this fun fact. While counting from one to five using finders, people all over the world start counting with a ball-up fist. Starting from one, you uncurl each of the fingers. Until you come to five, your hand is wide open. Everywhere worldwide, people count like this except in Russia. Instead of a ball-up fist, they start counting with a wide-open palm. So, when Russians start counting from one, they curl their fingers one by one. In the end, when they reach five, they get a ball-up fist.

Counting in Germany

When you say Germany, one of the first things that come to your mind is beer. Yes, Germany is a country of beer, so, naturally, everything is all about beer. As we already mentioned, we use fingers for counting. One of the fun facts you probably didn’t know is that in Germany, they use fingers for counting, too, but also for beer mugs. You, for example, came to Germany and went to drink a couple of their famous beers. How will you order them? Start counting with a thumb, and not with a pointer finger, as people in the USA do. If you want two beers, then point the thumb and the pointer finger, and so on. Don’t forget this way of counting, or you may get drunk pretty quickly.

Comme Ci, Comme ça In France

You’ve probably heard of the phrase that French use so much, comme ci, comme ça. It’s equivalent to the English so-so. However, the French use it a little bit differently. Since the French are perfectionists and have very high standards for every aspect of their lives, they use this phrase very often. When you, for example, ask a French how his day was, they will likely answer with comme ci, comme ça. It doesn’t mean that some part of their day was terrible. It just means that there was nothing special, nothing worth mentioning; A day like any other.

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