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A quick Chinese lesson (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago by [M] to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

In Korean it's not so bad: 한, 둘, 셋, 넷. Or 일, 이, 삼, 사. Yes there are two different types of numbers...

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    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)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Thats good to hear, I made a lot of mistakes of using the wrong numbers for times or dates.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    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

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