Sample Mandarin Lessons - Numbers

            The following pictures show how Chinese hand symbols for numbers differ to what you may normally be used to. A student once asked if they were secret hand signals between sellers for trying to dupe a foreigner into paying more. Little did he know that it was just common sign language for numbers!

Sound clips of how these words are said in Chinese:

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yiOne        erTwo        sanThree        siFour        wuFive

liuSix        qiSeven        baEight        jiuNine        shiTen




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