The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 2 months agoA quick Chinese lessonlemmy.worldimagemessage-square144linkfedilinkarrow-up1907
arrow-up1907imageA quick Chinese lessonlemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square144linkfedilink
minus-squarenonfuinoncuro@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months 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 months 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 months 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
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