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Saturday, July 17, 2004
Lesson 2 - reading numbers
Well because the responce I got to Lesson one, I think I'll continue with these lessons. I could learn something from it. Okay, more Nihongo!
Phrase of the Lesson (fyu, it has nothing to do witht he lesson)
*Okane o kudasai. - Money please. (very useful, I must say. ^+^)
In lesson two, I think I'll try to cover how to read the numbers after 10,000.
10,000 we read in english as ten thousand. Keep in mind the 1 is in the ten thousands place. For Japanese, it's slightly different. I'll first explain each place value of where the 3 is. I'll place how we read it in brackets. (I'm using three to show it doesn't not only apply to 1)
3 - ichi
[ones]
30 - jyuu
[tens]
300 - hyaku
[hundreds]
3,000 - sen (Don't forget, three thousand is read san zen! ^+^)
[thousands]
30,000 - man
[ten thousands]
(here's where it starts to change. You'll see the pattern)
300,000 - jyuu man (for Japanese, they don't start adding on tens and hundreds until after man. Remember jyuu is ten and man is thousand. What I believe they're refering to is ten times thousand is hundread thousand. See the picture? O.O)
[hundred thousands]
3,000,000 - hyaku man
[million]
30,000,000 - sen man
[ten million]
...and that's where I learn up to for place values. Haven't covered farther than that. neway, so you got the place values down. From ten thousand, then the previous positions are added on before it. You just have to learn it that way. There's no other way I guess, but believe me, it starts to get clearer fast. ^+^
Okay, so reading numbers now.....I'll start small and work my way up.
16 - jyuu roku
465 - yon hyaku roku jyuu go (okay, 16 and those you're already seen on Lesson one. And you've learned the place values, so this should be easy to understand. Look at it one by one. 400 is yon hyaku. So yon hayku and then it's a 65. Well two digit numbers are simple - roku jyuu go. So just out it togerther - yon hyaku roku jyuu go! hurray!)
6,167 - roku sen hyaku roku jyuu nana (again, add on)
73,181 - nana man san zen(*remember, zen!*) hyaku hachi jyuu ichi
671,643 - roku jyuu nana man issen rop pyaku yon jyuu san (no watch out for the hyaku on six. Remember it's rop pyaku. thousand alone can be sen or issen. I perfer issen. Notice the roku jyuu nana man. Adding on the ten before makes it hundred thousand. Then just add the number it is.)
7,135,946 - nana hyaku jyuu san man go sen kyuu hyaku yon jyuu roku (very long...don't worry, you'll get used to it)
finally....
12,345,678 - issen ni hyaku san jyuu yon man go sen rop pyaku nana jyuu hachi (longer..... T_T)
If you really want to get good, write out long randam numbers and try to translate it to japanese. It's best to translate to hiragana if you can write. But I don't see how I'll be able to show hiragana so... sorry...
Well, I think that's enough for Lesson 2 - reading numbers.
Hai, minna-san, arigatoo gozaimasu. Sayonara! mata! ^+^
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