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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:32 pm

Pathetic, I know. But hey...
Ichi
Ni
San
Yon
Go
Roku
Nana
Hachi
Ku
Ju
Juichi
Juni
Jusan
Juyon
Jugo
Juroku
Junana
Juhachi
Juku
Niju!!!

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:00 am

how fun i will have to share that with my sister!!! hope that you can count to thirty or forty in the near future. if you need help then i will be more that happy to help you with any number problems alright?

twisted evil mad

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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:38 am

mugen2005

how fun i will have to share that with my sister!!! hope that you can count to thirty or forty in the near future. if you need help then i will be more that happy to help you with any number problems alright?

twisted evil mad

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Yes me, too...I think thirty would probably be like Sanju or something...because there is a patern. A good T.V show to watch (If you have Access) Is Let's Learn Japanese. It's oldish...but it's still really good. It has skits then it tells you what they say and repeats important things.

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:29 pm

I can count up to 9999. -dies.-

Confusing, I tell you. o-o;

Yon can also be Yo and Shi. (Changes when you're telling time, usually. As goes for the next few.)

Nana is also Shichi. (Nana for time..)

And Ku is also Kyu.. (Ku for time.. )

I learned it - Ichi, ni, san, yon, go, roku, shichi, hachi, kyu (- Instead of ku.) , ju for regular... Nana, Yo/Shi, and Ku are for time, that's what my sensei says. (Changes for some other things I think, too.. not sure yet. xD)

To go a bit farther try this.
21 would be. Nijuuichi. (2, 10, 1. )
Therefore, if you're following the same pattern..
75 would be... Shichijuugo (7, 10, 5.)

So basically, if you can count up to 20, you can count up to 99 using this pattern..

That should keep you busy for awhile. :333

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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 3:43 pm

Yay, hurrah! *throws party for you* You'll have no problem learning all the numbers (up to 99, at the least) now! I don't know 100 and above though....

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:19 am

100
hyaku
basically you use the same idea

Hyaku ichi 101
hyaku ni 102
Hyaku san 103
Hyaku Yon,Chi 104
Hyaku go 105
Hyaku juu 110
Hyaku Ni juu 120
Hyaku kyu juu kyu 199
Ni Hyaku 200
San hyaku 300
Yon Hyaku 400
Go Hyaku 500
Roku Hyaku 600
Nana Hyaku 700
Hachi Hyaku 800
Kyu Hyaku 900
Kyuu Hyaku kyu juu kyu 999
Sen 1000
ni sen 2000
etc...

Hope this helps at least thats how i learned it

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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:41 am

Yay! Good for you!! <33
I can count to ten seeing as i have to be able to in Karate...anything past ten and i crash and burn...as i found out at my frist grading, whoops! xD;

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:48 pm

It's pretty cool that you can count to twenty in Japanese! I have to pause and think about it since some of the numbers have two ways of being pronounced (like 4:shi　し or yon　よん, 7:nana　なな or shichi　しち, 9:ku　く or kyuu　きゅう). But I think my all time favorite was when I was able to write down the numbers from one to ten in kanji! 一、二、三、四、五、六、七、八、九、十! I was so happy with myself, I showed my mother... who was about as thrilled as a cabbage. Oh, well. rolleyes

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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 11:48 am

Seisuke

100
hyaku
basically you use the same idea

Hyaku ichi 101
hyaku ni 102
Hyaku san 103
Hyaku Yon,Chi 104
Hyaku go 105
Hyaku juu 110
Hyaku Ni juu 120
Hyaku kyu juu kyu 199
Ni Hyaku 200
San hyaku 300
Yon Hyaku 400
Go Hyaku 500
Roku Hyaku 600
Nana Hyaku 700
Hachi Hyaku 800
Kyu Hyaku 900
Kyuu Hyaku kyu juu kyu 999
Sen 1000
ni sen 2000
etc...

Hope this helps at least thats how i learned it

There are some exceptions, and you'll get funny looks if you say the bolded things.
They are, instead:
Roppyaku (600)
Happyaku (800)

(The dashes present in between the Japanese words are to show where you would connect; they wouldn't normally be present when writing romaji.)
A few more rules/exceptions that weren't present in the last post
Hassen (8000)
"Shi" and "shichi" should only be used in the ones place, whereas "yon" and "nana" can be used in the ones place or other. Ex: 44 is yon-jyu-shi or yon-jyu-yon. 77 is nana-jyu-shichi or nana-jyu-nana.

As was stated by someone else, time and other ways of counting change the way the numbers are said (and sometimes change the numbers completely!). Just wait until you try counting things or people.

Edit: A few time notes -
4:00 - yo-ji
4:04 - yo-ji-yo-ppun
7:00 - shichi-ji
7:07 - shichi-ji-nana-fun
9:00 - ku-ji
9:09 - ku-ji-kyu-fun

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:08 am

Wrendraith

I can count up to 9999. -dies.-

Confusing, I tell you. o-o;

Yon can also be Yo and Shi. (Changes when you're telling time, usually. As goes for the next few.)

Nana is also Shichi. (Nana for time..)

And Ku is also Kyu.. (Ku for time.. )

I learned it - Ichi, ni, san, yon, go, roku, shichi, hachi, kyu (- Instead of ku.) , ju for regular... Nana, Yo/Shi, and Ku are for time, that's what my sensei says. (Changes for some other things I think, too.. not sure yet. xD)

To go a bit farther try this.
21 would be. Nijuuichi. (2, 10, 1. )
Therefore, if you're following the same pattern..
75 would be... Shichijuugo (7, 10, 5.)

So basically, if you can count up to 20, you can count up to 99 using this pattern..

That should keep you busy for awhile. :333

I learned Shi,insted on Yon when your just plain counting, but if you are saying there are 4 things then you use yon, same for 7 'n' 9. Or at least that is what I learnt.

Anyway now that you have got the basics,it's easy to advance it, (as was said above)

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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:39 am

I can count too! xd

Ichi
ni
san
shi
go
rok
shichi
hachi
kyu
ju
ju-ichi
ju-ni
ju-san
ju-shi
ju-go
ju-roku
ju-shichi
ju-hachi
ju-kyu
Ni-ju
Ni-ju-ichi
Ni-ju-ni
etc. 3nodding

Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 2:02 pm

Congradulations ^^

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Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:51 am

This is how I was taught the numbers( but I was taught by a American 5th degree black belt Aikidokai, but my spelling might be wrong stressed ):

Ich
Ni
San
Shi (or Yon)
Go
Ruk
Sitch
Hotch
Cu
Ju
Ju ich
Ju ni
Ju san
Ju shi
Ju go
Ju ruk
Ju sitch
Ju hotch
Ju cu
Ni ju
etc. etc.

I'm wondering about the changes in the Americanized version from the true Japanese version.