A Word a Day — ‘Zero’
Posted on Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
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Quite a step up from the other numbers, this one takes 13 strokes to complete.
Now that you know ‘zero’ as well as one to ten, you should be able to communicate any number imaginable to a native Mandarin speaker, simply by saying the digits in sequence! Congratulations for getting this far! As a short practice, try to say the digits of your phone number. Once you can do that, try your ID number as well!
If you find that too easy, say the following digits as fast as you can:
18374220947349017538934561234
As promised, next lesson will consist of a set of printable flash cards, allowing you to memorise all these characters, their meanings and associated pronunciations.
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