The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 4 days agoA quick Chinese lessonlemmy.imagisphe.reimagemessage-square147linkfedilinkarrow-up1931arrow-down17
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minus-squareNutomic@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoIn Korean it’s not so bad: 한, 둘, 셋, 넷. Or 일, 이, 삼, 사. Yes there are two different types of numbers…
minus-squarenonfuinoncuro@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agothe latter set is just the same chinese characters spelled out phonetically i feel like most people nowadays are getting lazy and just using the chinese numbers more and more instead of learning a new word for each new ten (twenty thirty forty etc)
minus-squareNutomic@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoThats good to hear, I made a lot of mistakes of using the wrong numbers for times or dates.
minus-squarenonfuinoncuro@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agounfortunately hours (not minutes) ages and number of days/months (not years) are still korean numbers not chinese but i guess you can always just say the year of birth and spell out the date instead both of which would be chinese… haha languages are weird
In Korean it’s not so bad: 한, 둘, 셋, 넷. Or 일, 이, 삼, 사. Yes there are two different types of numbers…
the latter set is just the same chinese characters spelled out phonetically
i feel like most people nowadays are getting lazy and just using the chinese numbers more and more instead of learning a new word for each new ten (twenty thirty forty etc)
Thats good to hear, I made a lot of mistakes of using the wrong numbers for times or dates.
unfortunately hours (not minutes) ages and number of days/months (not years) are still korean numbers not chinese
but i guess you can always just say the year of birth and spell out the date instead both of which would be chinese… haha languages are weird