How do you do it?

Like different countries have different languages, they also have different ways to count. If you are going to count to 5 and use your finger how would you do it? If you are in the U.S. you would probably start with your pointer finger and count like this:



If you were in Europe (or at least Germany or Austria) you would count to five like this (just so you're not confused the picture shows the front and back side of the hand)




But if you were in Japan, you would go the opposite way. Instead of adding fingers as you get higher in numbers, you take them away - like this:


And if you want to get really crazy with counting on your fingers here you go (not quite sure how this works as 4 doesn't even show 4 fingers or have 4 taken away, but if you could master this it would be pretty impressive):

Counting

This post is about differences in language - but with counting.
We have lived in 3 different language speaking areas
Obviously English (America & Australia)
German (Germany & Austria)
Japanese (Japan)
Each country counts a little differently.
As you are well aware of if you are reading this, in English the numbers 1-10 have their own word as well as 11 and 12, then 13-19 goes into a pattern where you add teen to the end and the same with 20, 30, 40, 50, so on forth - it follows a pattern where each new group of ten has a new word (thirty, forty, fifty) - it might make more sense as to what I mean when I get to Japanese.
In German, like English, you have 1-10, 11 & 12 have their own words and then 13-19 follow a pattern where instead of adding teen you add the German equivalent 'zehn' - pronounced zane. Then each following group of ten has its own word like in english only once you get to 20 you start counting in reverse - so for 21 you would say: one and twenty, for 35 you would say 5 and 30.
In Japanese it is much simpler - 1-10 have their own words, but for 11 you say: ten one, for 12 you say ten two. for 13 you would say: ten three, for 16 you say: ten six. Then for 20 you would say: two ten, for thirty you would say 3 ten, for 50 you would say: five ten. If you wanted to say 73 you would say: seven ten three. If you wanted to say 89 it would be: eight ten four
The numbers in Japanese are (with the English pronunciation)
1 - itchy
2 - knee
3 - sahn
4 - she
5 - go
6 - row-koo
7 - na-na
8 - hah-chee
9 - Q
10 - jew

so 73 would be pronounced: na-na, jew, sahn  (7, 10, 3)