In this lesson Kaoru Sensei will teach you numbers 1 to 10. Very easy stuff. Once you know numbers then it is very easy to tell the time, state your age and so on.
Large Numbers
It is Japanese units and large numbers that students find difficult to learn and memorize. In Japanese there is the unit “man”, 10,000. In English there no equivalent unit. As there is no English equivalent students find large numbers in Japanese very difficult to read, remember and translate into English. Having this extra unit in their number system can really throw you. Also Japanese think and speak numbers in terms of yen (“cents”) rather than dollars in regard to money. For example, for 1 dollar the Japanese equivalent is 100 yen. As a result, large dollar amounts become very large yen amounts and are difficult to work out and read. We will look at large numbers in a later lesson. The table below is just an introduction to Japanese units.
