Now we can count from 1-20, 20-100, 100-1000 & 1000-10,000. This post will cover the 10-thousands.

I mentioned before that in Japanese there’s a separate unit for Ten-Thousands. It took me a bit to wrap my head around it.  Say we have a huge number like 98,765.
In English, we’d read it 98 thousand, 7 hundred, 60, 5.

In Japanese it’s essentially read like this: 9 Ten-Thousand, 8 Thousand, 7 Hundred, 60, 5.

To me, it’s really hard to think that there’s something else to put in there. It almost makes sense, because Japanese currency ￥ (Yen, or えん [en] in Japanese) is usually listed in much larger numbers than we’re used to with dollars.
￥100 is about $1.00 give or take.
If our big number above was  ￥98,765… it’d be $987.65 roughly.

1,000.	sen	せん
10,000.	ichiman*	いちまん
20,000.	niman	にまん
30,000.	sanman	さんまん
40,000.	yonman~	よんまん
50,000.	goman	ごまん
60,000.	rokuman	ろくまん
70,000.	nanaman~	ななまん
80,000.	hachiman	はちまん
90,000.	kyuuman	きゅうまん

Using this new list, lets look at the big number again, & break it down:

90,000	kyuuman
8,000	hassen
700	nanahyaku
60	rokujuu
5	go

So all together 98,765 would be read:
きゅうまん はっせん ななひゃく ろくじゅう ご
kyuuman hassen nanahyaku rokujuu go

It’s alot to take in, but I found for myself that breaking it down helps.

I learned a nifty phrase today, which ‘ve heard many times (watching anime lol)  and finally know what it means.

がんばって ください - Please try your best
ganbatte kudasai

In finding this out I’ve found that ganba がんば is “go for it” or “keep at it”

I just need to keep telling myself this & everyone else trying to learn Japanese.
がんばって ください!!

Over the last bunch of posts, there’s been lots of numbers!(1-20, 20-100, 100-1000!)  And this one will be no exception, hehe. Now We’ll be doing 1,000-10,000!

I’m pretty sure the next will be the last *strictly* numbers post for a while. We’ll get to time & age soon.

Like with the rest if the Japanese numbers there’s a system. With the exception of 1000 (which is せん [sen] all by itself,)  you take the number & stick せん (sen) to the end of it. 2000 is にせん (nisen), and 5000 is ごせん (gosen). And also like the others, there are irregulars. Keep an eye out for 3000 さんびゃく (sanzen) & 8000 はっぴゃく (hassen)

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I’m really hoping that these 日本語 Japanese posts are helping people. The reason I keep doing them is two-fold: 1) I get to share something that I know & I think others would like to know as well.  2) It’ s a killer review for me as well. I keep doing posts & setting them to auto post day after day. I have a few finished everyday & I keep adding more. Just gotta pace myself.

So today we had our midterm. It was tricky, but I think I did well. We has to write some single words in Hiragana, which made me think. It’s kinda hard. >.<  Further on in the test, there were questions that had to be answered in Hiragana. Oy!

So overall, tricky, but not too bad.

So far we’ve covered from 1-20 and 20-100.

Now we’re going to do 100-1000.

It may seem like a big jump, but it’s not nearly as taxing as it seems.

In English, we have names for the units. By units I mean ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.

In Japanese, they have all those but, there’s also a unit for 10-thousands.
It’ll make more sense when you see it, but that’ll be in a later post.

Below are the “hundreds” units, including 1,000 .

** These are irregular and don’t follow the  “___hyaku” pattern.
~~ Also not that these use yon & nana as the prefixes.
shihyaku & shichihyaku would be incorrect.

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The HKO Founder’s beta opens today, at 10pm EST.

For anyone that also got in, I’ll most likely be Arcsis in game, so feel free to say hi!

The game is available for download via bit torrent, which is a program that lets you download bits of it from other people. It’s less taxing on the servers to do it this way instead of a traditional download. With a file that’s as big as this (1.85 gbs!) a normal download is insane. This makes it crucial that people seed (the BT term for sharing)

So please, Please, PLEASE seed!

Leave bit torrent & your computer on for as long as you can to let others download it too.

HKO reccommends using utorrent (which is what I use)

If this thing even finishes, I’ll see you all in game!

HKO Site   |   HKO Blog

Last time we covered 1 - 20, & today we’ll go all the way to 100! The nice part is that counting 20-30, 30-40 etc, uses the same pattern as 10-20.
10 + 1 = 11
juu + ichi = juuichi

2 * 10 = 20
ni * juu = nijuu
20 + 1 = 21
nijuu + ichi = nijuuichi

** I mentioned before that sometimes you need to use certain pronunciations for certain things. This is one of those times
It would be incorrect to say “shijuu” for 40, or “shichijuu” for 70. I’m not sure why that is, but it is

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.

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I got Chocobo Tales last weekend & let me tell you, It’s wicked fun! I’ve always loved the Final Fantasy Chocobos, and this game serves `em up with extra helpings of kawaii.

I’ve read several reviews that said that square-enix did some research & found that younger players liked chocobo the best of all the FF characters. So they made this Chocobo game for that target audience. If you’re not in that age group, never fear this is still a hugely entertaining game for anyone, especially if you’re a fan of the FF series.

Basically, it’s a full game of minigames. (And microgames!)

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ひらがな 6!? Ok, I know that you gotta be thinking to yourself, “Now Arcsis, I thought you said there where 46 hiragana. How can we be on to lesson 6? You lied to me!”
If you got that impression, you’re not alone. I felt the same way when I discovered there were more than 46.

There really are 46 basic hiragana, but then there’s variations on those. You don’t need to learn to write any new ones, only what they mean when to add a tenten or a maru. (These were what I was taught to call them. In Kana de Manga, they’re called a dakuten & handakuten)

So what is a tenten? It’s the 2 little lines on the top right that make ka turn into ga

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And Maru actually means circle. So adding a maru to ha makes pa.

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Lets take a look at the 5 lines that change, shall we?

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