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A Word a Day — ‘Ten’

Posted on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 at 8:49 pm

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‘Ten’ in Mandarin

This one looks a bit like a big ‘T’. Think ‘T’ for ‘Ten’.

Here we are! We’ve learned how to count from one to ten in Mandarin Chinese. This is a very useful thing to know and will make buying and selling from Chinese stores much easier if you ever find the salesperson’s English skills to be lacking. The only thing left to learn is ‘zero’, which will come tomorrow. After that, I’ll compose a test for you and make some cards you can cut out to help remember the characters, pronunciation and symbols.

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