Ha Ha this is the first time I have been able to learn some Chinese by myslef. That is cool.

Ni hao, Benny. I have a question regarding a certain ‘unlucky’ number… I realise the number four is considered ominous in China, and the use of the number/word is often avoided in most circumstances. So my question is…

At what times is the use of the word/number appropriate? I hear it is rude to say it at dinner… but what if someone asks you how many of something there are? Would it be ok for me to tell them there is four?

That’s good. I actually heard it on a Mandarin tape for learning Chinese – it was talking about table manners, and it said not to use the word four out loud for some reason.

Xie xie ni. The reason I’m familiar with Chiense culture is the reason I wanted to learn the Chinese language. :) I wanted to be able to read Chinese so that I could read some historical records not yet translated into English. But now I want to learn the language so that I might talk to the people there – if I want to learn to read Chinese, I should at least be able to talk to the people there.
Thanks to you, I can! Xie xie ni, Benny!

Thank you, Benny, it is. :)

You might of guessed by now I’m from England. I’m not an official historian or author of any historical books or anything if that’s what you’re thinking, but I am an avid learner of Chinese history and culture. I don’t much like the jobs available where I am, so I intend to live and work in China – I just need to learn the language first. ;)

ni hao benny,ni hao ma.wow, counting in mandarin is alot easier than i thought it would be.the amount of mandarin i have learnt so far is amazing.i owe it all to you benny.xie xie ni,keep up the good work.zai jian

你好, Benny! I’ve never thought the chinese numbers would be so easy!
Thank You for the good work Benny! I can’t stopping studying chinese. I love it! 再见!

how do you say from 100 to 999?

Oh my God! In Taiwan things go a bit different sometimes… i dont know why but this is what happens…
107 yi bai ling qi
117 yi bai shi qi
short way of saying things they say
380 san bai ba instead of
san bai ba shi
为什么呢？

Have a try Esina! Tell me how do you say 305, 617, and 855?

she hasn’t replied, but I’ll give it a stab

305= san bai wu
617= liu bai yi shi qi
855= ba bai wu shi wu
correct me if im wrong please! :o)

To: Jenna

305 a little different: san1 bai2 ling wu3 ^^

Great lesson. Is zero, ling?

it’s great,but how do you say 100to1000000

100-999 is already answered if you look at all the comments. however, for the 1000, the word one thousand is qian1 千. to say one thousand would be yi1 一 qian1 千.
then the rule of zero still applies. 0= ling2 零
so 1001 would be yi qian ling yi.
and 1010 would be yi qian ling yi shi
all the way to 9999 jiu qian jiu bai jiu shi jiu.

to go even higher, my chinese teacher taught us to think of chinese as having their commas every 4 numbers, like, 1000,0000. and you pronounce the comma as wan4 万。 then everything on the left side is just a repeat of the right. for example
99,999,999 (9999,9999) would be
jiu qian jiu bai jiu shi jiu wan jiu qian jiu bai jiu shi jiu.
I don’t know what happens if you go higher, thats as high as we went.

this is really good. i was struggling with the numbers once they passed 10 and this has really helped. im trying to learn mandarin chinese on my own, only using online sites and i dont have anyone to practise with, but it is easy enough to learn :D thanks Benny

good