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I'm a math teacher, working at an international school here in DC. While I teach (and the school teaches) all classes in English, I've come to think it would be beneficial for me to know at least some mathematical terms in the kids' native languages to help with explanations. So naturally I thought, "Hey, TL is a helpful international community, why don't I ask here?"
Specifically, I'm looking for Korean, Japanese, and Spanish terms: I can read Korean and Spanish but I'll need English-alphabet transliterations for any Japanese terms, unfortunately. (Side note: best/cheapest way to learn to read Japanese? Yes, I realize it takes a while.)
Important words:
- Basic mathematical terms: add, subtract, multiply, divide, power & root; positive, negative, equation
- Geometric concepts: constructions (line, point, plane, angle, ray); shapes (circle, rectangle, square, quadrilateral, hexagon, triangle, etc.); parts of shapes (side, vertex, edge, face, radius, perimeter, area, volume)
Thanks a ton!
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"Minna No Nihongo" is a very popular textbook for people who want to learn Japanese although you should first start by memorising the hiragana and katakana alphabet.
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What level math are we talking about here?
Some basic ones in spanish
add - sumar
subtract- restar
multiply -multiplicar
divide - dividir
power & root - elevas ____ al a potencia de ___ (you raise ____to the power of___), tomas la ____ raiz de ____ (you take the ___ root of ___)
line - linea
point -punto
plane- plano
angle -angulo
circle- circulo
rectangle - rectangulo
square -cuadrado
hexagon - hexagono,
triangle,- tirangulo
side -lado
vertex - vertice
edge -borde
face- cara
radius - radio
perimeter- perimetro
area -area
volume -volumen.
If you need any more help/want more vocab or have any general questions feel free to shoot me a PM, sorry I didn't make this more comprehensive, but I'm at work :-/
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Shokyuu Nihongo is the textbook I use at uni, however you will have to learn to read kana if you want to use it. It also has a sister site with most of the material from the book, including grammar explanations, drills, reading practice, listening practice, translation for japanese text and switching between all kana or kanji. I highly recommend it.
http://jisho.org/ is an excellent online dictionary for Japanese terms, but you will again have to learn kana as you will often be presented with many results for a single word in english.
You might also want to look into lang8, a website dedicated to language learners who want to interact with native speakers. I have no doubt you will be able to find many eager people there who can give you what you need.
Good luck, op.
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Thanks for the recommendations, guys. (Or girls, I suppose? Hurrah for internet anonymity?) The vocabularly website particularly I gave to my students (oddly enough, my family's from near Ann Arbor... small world I guess), though I'll work on it myself.
Level is middle to high school – the middle school students are the big problem since the high schooler have either been in the US long enough or taken enough English in their native countries to get by.
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Totally blatantly off topic, whereabouts in DC? I'm right over in Manassas area.
And why havent you hooked up wth the very active TL community around NOVA area?? Dinners on most saturday nights! 
If you have and I've forgotten you...forgive me! XD
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I went to one months ago when I first moved to the area, but I just haven't had the time/money/dedication/any RTS skill to remember to come to one again.
Anyway I'm in Alexandria, Del Ray neighborhood (though I work up on the other side of DC /commute /bleh).
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