Trust us on this: nothing will kill that prospective career in Chinese finance faster than an inability to
count to ten. Gesticulation just isn't what it used to be, and given that mandarin is a language where the
numbers for four and ten are almost as easy to mix up as the Beijing Olympic Mascots, we think you've
got a recipe for disaster on your hands if you don't have a solid grasp of the fundamentals.
So in this lesson we cover the absolute basics of numbers: how to pronounce them, what tones to use
and how to string single digits together to make bigger numbers that sound more impressive. This isn't
groundbreaking stuff unless you don't already know it, in which case it is groundbreaking stuff. So listen
in and let's put this counting thing behind us.
Vocabulary :
一 yī 1 number
二 èr 2 number
三 sān 3 number
四 sì 4 number
五 wǔ 5 number
六 liù 6 number
七 qī 7 number
八 bā 8 number
九 jiǔ 9 number
十 shí 10 number
十一 shíyī 11 number
十二 shíèr 12 number
二十 èrshí 20 number
六十 liùshí 60 number
九十 jiǔshí 90 number
九十九 jiǔshíjiǔ ninety nine number
再来一遍 zài lái yī biàn do it again phrase
再说一遍 zài shuō yī
biàn
say it again phrase
跟不上 gēnbùshàng can't keep
up
phrase