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.
jim.veseley
said on February 2, 2009
This is really basic stuff. You should add this lesson to the course for beginners. Definitely somewhere in the first ten lessons anyone should listen to.
Lindsey
said on February 10, 2009
Is this Cantonese ore Mandarin?
Absolute Beginners
said on February 10, 2009
@Lindsey - all of the lessons we have now are standard Mandarin. So the language spoken in mainland China as opposed to Hong Kong.
user3396
said on February 28, 2009
I noticed that the gym teacher truncated the sound for 5 - might be nice to explain when this is OK.
k503
said on April 16, 2009
there is something wrong with the audio recordings for the vocabulary - somehow two recordings have been superimposed.
maybe 再来一遍 !
trevelyan
said on April 16, 2009
@K503 - we'll rerecord these tonight. thanks for the tip. --dave
k503
said on April 19, 2009
still faulty! - ?
Absolute Beginners
said on April 20, 2009
@k503 - thanks for following up. We'd rerecorded but it didn't seem to catch. Just purged all previous recordings and did them all again from scratch, which seems to have fixed the problem.
--dave
mattjelly
said on June 8, 2009
ohh, I know a good tounge twister...
四是四
十是十
十四是十四
四十是四十
Gail天堂的声音
said on June 8, 2009
@mattjelly,
be careful, 别把四十说成十四，也别把十四说成四十。try this sentence. hehehehehhehehe
saunders
said on June 8, 2009
I think Matt's original is a bit harder. I once got a haircut for 4 rmb on campus. Gave them a 10 and was surprised to get change back. The hairdresser was a total southerner.
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