Japanese

Numbers above 10 are normally written in Western Arabic numerals for conciseness. However, in this course we will use the traditional way of writing numbers with kanji, because this will give you more practice. The way we count in Japanese resembles the way we count in English, but is more regular, as you can see when looking at the table below.

English	Japanese
11	十じゅう　一いち zyuu iti
19	十じゅう　九きゅう zyuu kyuu
25	二に十じゅう　五ご nizyuu go
48	四よん十じゅう　八はち yonzyuu hati
62	六ろく十じゅう　二に rokuzyuu ni
73	七なな十じゅう　三さん nanazyuu san

Note that forty is 四よん十じゅう and not 四し十じゅう, and seventy is 七なな十じゅう and not 七しち十じゅう.