This lesson will cover すうじ (suuji- numbers) 1-20. There are Kanji for each number, but that will be covered later.
Eventually I’ll do bigger numbers up to 10,000 & じかん (jikan- time). But today, we’ll start small.
1 -10 is pretty straight forward, and very important. It’s the base for all the rest of the numbers, as we’ll see later.

0.	zero / ree	ゼロ* / れえ
1.	ichi	いち
2.	ni	に
3.	san	さん
4.	shi / yon / (yo)	し / よん / (よ)
5.	go	ご
6.	roku	ろく
7.	nana / shichi	なな / しち
8.	hachi	はち
9.	kyu / ku	く / きゅ
10.	juu	じゅう

*zero is technically a foreign word so it’s written in Katakana which we haven’t done yet. It would be  ぜろ in Hiragana.

As you can see, 0, 4, 7 & 9 have a few different ways to say them. When counting you can pick whichever one you’re more comfortable with using. However, you’ll still need to know all of them; when doing other things like telling time or giving phone numbers, only certain ones will be used.

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Once you know 1-10, 11-20 is super easy! Look at it this way:
10 + 1 = 11 so…
juu + ichi = juuichi.What about 20?
2 * 10 = 20 …
ni * juu = nijuu
Easy right?

0.	juu	じゅう
11.	juuichi	じゅういち
12.	juuni	じゅうに
13.	juusan	じゅうさん
14.	juushi / juuyon	じゅうし / じゅうよん
15.	juugo	じゅうご
16.	juuroku	じゅうろく
17.	juunana / shichi	じゅうなな / じゅうしち
18.	juuhachi	じゅうはち
19.	juukyu / juuku	じゅうきゅ / じゅうく
20.	nijuu	にじゅう

That’s it! You’ve got 1-20 under your belt!