Activities: "Japanese Numbers: How to count one to a trillion?"

Let’s review the basic numbers 0 - 10! Complete the table by filling in the correct pronunciation, in hiragana or romanji, of each number. (Yes, you can peek at the article anytime. Remember, these activities are not a test!)

• #	Kanji	Reading
  0	零	; ゼロ[zero]
  1	一
  2	二
  3	三
  4	四	し[shi];
  5	五

  #	Kanji	Reading
  6	六
  7	七	しち[shichi];
  8	八
  9	九	; く[ku]
  10	十

Some of the new students at Mango Japanese school want to form a study group. Their nationalities are different, and they are trying to communicate in their common language: Japanese! Help them give their phone numbers to their new buddies by spelling them out in the blanks. (These phone numbers are shorter than those used in real life.)

• • フィン Finn

    ぼくのでんわばんごうはです。
    Boku no denwa bangō wa desu.
    My phone number is 36 - 4028.

    Did you remember to use の in place of the hyphen? When you actually say the number, に[ni] would sound にー[nii].

  • マリア Maria

    わたしのでんわばんごうはよ。
    Watashi no denwa bangō wa yo.
    My phone number is 29 - 7150.

    When you actually say the number, ご and に would sound ごー[gō] and にー[nii], respectively.

  • チュン Chun

    わたしのでんわばんごう？です。
    Watashi no denwa bangō? desu.
    My phone number? It’s 99 - 1771.

    This is a good example to see why it’s better to read 7 as なな[nana], not しち[shichi], when saying a series of numbers in Japanese!

  • ジョーダン Jordan

    ぼくのはだ。いつでもでんわして。
    Boku no wa da. Itsudemo denwa shite.
    Mine is 44 - 0378. Call me anytime.

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