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[quote=Anonymous]Agree with many of the PPs that it is the shift to SAH that is your problem.

Also the fact that you are English speaking.

I kid, but not really.  English makes learning to count more difficult because the teens are backwards and illogical - it's why so many children have trouble with it.  We teach them to count to ten in a base 10 number system and then we throw eleven and twelve at them? What do those random words even mean?  And it's not much better after that - of COURSE a kid is going to thing 'Four Teen' is 41. Kids have it much easier in languages that effectively number these things 'Ten One', 'Ten Two', 'Ten Three', etc. the way it should be. English gets its act together by the twenties, but the damage is done by then.

Read a study that it's a similar problem with kids learning colors.  English puts the adjective BEFORE the noun and that makes it much harder to learn because you haven't directed your kid to the object before you name the color.  So kids much more readily learn colors if you direct their attention to the object in question before mentioning the color, i.e. if you say 'the ball is read' versus 'the red ball'[/quote]

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