02 September 2011

Counting and Time

Alright, I've slacked off a bit on the blog, so there will be a few posts all crammed together here (I'm going to use scheduling to send 'em out once per day).  Sorry about that, I'll try to update in a smoother fashion in the future.

We learned numbers:
いち - ichi (1)
に - ni (2)
さん - san (3)
よん - yon
ご - go
ろく - roku
なな - nana
はち - hachi
きゅう - kyuu
じゅう - juu (10)

The cool thing with Japanese numbers is you just add them together to get numbers above 10, none of that weird -teen, -irty stuff like English.  So for 11, I just say "ten one": じゅういち, and for 21 I can just say "two ten one": じゅういち


We learned about the time:
いま、なんじですか (What time is it now?)
じゅうはんです。(It's 12:30; you can see the number 12 in bold)

Though now that I try to actually write out the time, it occurs to me that I we haven't covered minutes yet, so at best I can give you the time within a half hour.

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