The showtime describe of piece of job is the Standard Arabic annotation which nosotros piece of job inwards English, starting amongst zero. Ten is 1 followed past times zero.
Roman numerals are tertiary row down. Four is the V for five, amongst the prefix of 1 on the left, for subtract one. Five is a V. For half dozen you lot accept v too one. Nine is x minus one. Ten is X (pronounced ex).
The Chinese are the 7th or final row, starting amongst zero.
Problems
1 REMEMBERING SAYING NUMBERS
I can't yell upwardly the numbers 1 to x inwards Chinese (Mandarin).
2 WHICH TONES ?
I don't know the Chinese tones.
3 FOUR OR TEN?
When taxi drivers or others tell me the numbers I can't tell the deviation betwixt 4 (si) too x (si)/shi which sounds similar run across or sir or she sher both times - and, fifty-fifty if I tin tell, I afterwards forget which is which!
4 RECOGNIZING SYMBOLS
NUMBERS 1-3
I tin easily recognise the numbers 1 to 3 when I run across them. They look similar Roman numerals turned sideways. However, I forget all the others, 4 to ten.
Answers
Today for the showtime fourth dimension I looked at the accents on the numbers, equally good equally listening, too thought, I tin tackle this, thence long equally I exercise it tardily too methodically. Not exclusively that, I volition accept other skills.
1 TONES
I volition uncovering it like shooting fish in a barrel to yell upwardly too reproduce at to the lowest degree 3 of the Chinese tones! Just think of the numbers 1 to x to learn the tones right.
Listen to the sounds too await at the accents on the words.
2 RECOGNIZING SYMBOLS - CALENDARS
The numbers are too used for days of the week. So I volition live on able to recognize days of the calendar week on calendars. If I continue looking at calendars, I tin remind myself of the numbers.
Wikipedia is really enlightening. It told me that
3 CHINES FOUR SYMBOL IS CURTAINS, DEATH
Americans oft yell to 9/11, for September 11th (attack on twin towers, New York). The Chinese yell to 6/4, June 4, too month then day, for the Tianmen Square number inwards Beijing.
Looking at the symbol for four, inwards 6/4, it's like shooting fish in a barrel to yell upwardly the four-sided square window too the curtains, curtains beingness a metaphor for death, too exceed sounding similar 4 inwards Chinese, which makes 4 an unlucky or inauspicious number.
Let's start amongst remembering the symbols for each of the numbers 1 to ten.
Again, Wikipedia is really enlightening.
In an former 'rod' symbolism for numbers, sometimes used on boards inwards markets inwards places such equally Hong Kong, the symbol T is used for five/six?, too Roman verticals would live on 11, 12, xiii too thence on. So scout out for that. Before paying, live on certain whether you lot are beingness asked for 3 or 13.
5-10
FIVE The Chinese symbol for v looks similar our v (English from Arabic) inwards describe of piece of job 1 of the chart, merely squared off amongst a apartment describe of piece of job at the top, a slight angle coming down, too a describe of piece of job at the base. Alternatively, think of it equally a T too a B; nation 'great to live on five'.
SIX (Sign on Sixth Avenue on Downtown line, Singapore; half dozen men strolling downwards 6th avenue)
SEVEN - Easy the Chinese for 7 looks similar an upside downwards 7 symbol.
EIGHT ('Ba ba dark sheep,' equally the nurserty rhyme says, looks similar a frowning sheep amongst one-half an eyebrow on the correct eye.)
NINE
TEN (Looks similar a addition sign or a Roman x which is an x rotated)
TONES
(From Simple Wikipedia. For clarity, I accept inserted spaces too repeated to a greater extent than or less words.)
In Mandarin, the sentence ma ma ma ma (麻媽罵馬) includes 4 dissimilar words. If numbers seat the tones, they tin live on written ma2 ma1 ma4 ma3, which means
"the hemp's
mother
scolds
(the) horse."
Some ways of romanization write each musical note amongst a dissimilar spelling; ma2 ma1 ma4 ma3 in Pinyin would live on written ma mha mah maa in Gwoyeu Romatzyh romanization. Most piece of job numbers or accent marks
(mā má mǎ mà in Pinyin).
mā
má
mǎ
mà
There is a poem called Lion-Eating Poet inwards the Stone Den (施氏食獅史). It has 92 characters; all read the same way inwards Standard Mandarin ("shi") merely amongst dissimilar tones.
Standard Mandarin does non accept many syllables: the words for "mother," "hemp," "horse," "scold," too a discussion position at the terminate of sentences to arrive a query are all pronounced "ma:"
- "Mother" is "ma" that is high too level.
- "Hemp" is "ma" that starts depression too ends high.
- "Horse" is "ma" that starts fairly high, dips really low, too and then goes dorsum upwardly again.
- "Scold" is "ma" that starts high too ends low.
- To brand a question, "ma" is added at the end, merely it is kept really soft too small too nearly the same level.
Standard Mandarin has "first tone," "second tone," "third tone," "fourth tone," too "neutral tone." Other Chinese dialects have to a greater extent than tones, to a greater extent than or less equally many equally 12.
More later. I shall live on adding to this equally fourth dimension permits.
Useful Websites:
You subway scheme video on numbers 1-10, past times a jolly Chinese girl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOAvfeu6APE
The same daughter teaches you lot to say: I beak a petty Chinese.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A-le2mGfco
To locomote to a seat amongst Chinese speakers:
UK
Many Chinese restaurants, 1 inwards every city, 1 or ii inwards most high streets. They powerfulness beak Cantonese (from Hong Kong) merely the symbols on the carte du jour too prices are probable to live on the same.
Chinatowns inwards London too Manchester.
Also Japanese restaurants inwards London using the same symbols.
visitbritain.org
visitengland.com
visitlondon.com
USA
Chinatowns inwards major cities.
visittheusa.co.uk
CANADA
Large Chinatowns inwards major cities including Vancouver.
SINGAPORE
Standard Mandarin is 1 of the 4 primary languages too taught inwards schools. Many people beak Singlish, or powerfulness beak other dialects at home, Cantonese or to a greater extent than or less other from southern China.
visitsingapore.com
singaporeair.com
CHINA - Beijing, too officially everywhere Standard Mandarin taught inwards schools. Chinese symbols.
TAIWAN - Taiwanese.
JAPAN - Uses the same written linguistic communication (symbols) equally Chinese.
https://us.jnto.go.jp/
seejapan.co.uk
Angela Lansbury, locomote author too photographer, author too speaker.