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Originally Posted by deadthinker
i think counting is hard because there are so many differnt ways to count things because you have the normal ichi ni san..
and hitotsu, futatsu, mittsu ...
but when buying things its hard to remeber because there are differnt ways for different objects e.g.
flat/thin objects- ichi-mai, ni-mai,san -mai
long objects-ippon,ni-hon,san-bon
small objects- ikko-ni-no,san-ko
glassfuls-ippai,ni-hai,san-bai
boxes-hito-hako,futa-hako,ni-hako
and it goes on and on ^^
i can never remember which ones right. can you tell me will it get easy to remember?  |
It gets easer as it goes on (the more you use it), Try learning more Kanji sooner or latter you'll come across some counters, the basses is around shapes like you said in most of them but some have to do with animals/plants too.