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Standard Chinese, a modular approach, Numbers Resource Module, Tape 6.
On this tape, you'll learn the numbers from 1,000 to 99,999.
You'll also learn how to form addresses.
Turn to display one in your workbook and listen to the speaker say the numbers.
一千,兩千,三千,四千,五千,六千,七千,八千,九千.
Notice that the high tone of E changes to falling tone before the high tone of 10.Repeat 1,000.
Notice that the word for two is 兩千,兩千.Repeat 3,000,4,000,5,000.
Repeat 6,000,7,000,8,000,9,000.
六千,七千,八千,九千.
Try putting the following numbers into Chinese. 7,000,7,000,2,000,2,000,5,000,5,000,9,000,4,000,4,000,1,000.
一千.
Numbers over 1,000 are formed in the same way as the numbers you've already learned.
Take a look at display two.Repeat the first number after the speaker,1,246.
一千,兩百,四十六.
Repeat the second number,3,575.
Now the third number,6,750.
Since these higher numbers are so regularly formed, try producing some yourself.
Turn to exercise one.
Try saying the number ahead of the speaker and then repeat the confirmation.
Number one.
五千,五百,五十五.
Number two.
Number three.
一千,兩百.
六千,四百,五十五.
Number five.
兩千,八百,九十九.
Number six.
七千,一百,三十一.
Number seven.
四千,兩百,五十六.
Number eight.
九千,七百,四十二.
Number nine.
八千,三百,二十九.
Number ten.
两千,九百,七十四.
The rules you learned performing numbers over one hundred also hold true for forming numbers over one thousand.
For instance, you still must insert a one,e, before the ten for forming ten numbers.
Repeat five thousand five hundred fifteen.
五千,五百,一十五.
Repeat five thousand five hundred twelve.
Repeat five thousand five hundred eleven.
Now try exercise two.
Read each number ahead of the speaker and repeat the confirmations.
Number one.
一千,一百,一十一.
Number two.
七千,一百,一十七.
Number three.
两千,两百,一十.
Number four.
六千,六百,一十六.
Number five.
四千,九百,一十二.
Number six.
九千,一百,一十五.
Number seven.
三千,八百,一十三.
Number eight.
五千,四百,一十九.
However, the rule for the use of zero, 零, is altered slightly for numbers over one thousand.
The word 零 can stand for more than one place.
Look at display three.
Listen to the speaker say the numbers in column one.
一千零一,两千零二,六千零五,七千零七.
九千零九.
Repeat one thousand one.
一千零一,一千零一.
Repeat two thousand two.
两千零二,两千零二.
How would you say six thousand five?
六千零五.
How do you say seven thousand seven?
七千零七.
You might be thinking that if 零 can stand for more than one place, there might be room for misunderstanding.
But listen to the speaker read all the numbers in display three.
一千零一,一千一百零一.
两千零二,两千两百零二.
六千零五.
六千六百零五.
七千零七.
七千七百零七.
九千零九.
九千九百零九.
Using 零 for one or more places is similar to our use of ant as in one thousand and one.
Now turn to exercise three.
Exercise three, the dictation exercise.
Write down the numbers you hear.
Number one,一千零一,一千零一.
Number two,一千一百零一.
Number three,六千五百零五.
四千五百零五.
Number four,七千零一.
七千零一.
Number five,八千八百一十.
Number six,四千零八.
Number seven,九千六百一十六.
九千六百一十六.
Number eight,三千四百零三.
Number nine,五千五百零一.
Number ten,六千零六.
六千零六.
The answers to exercise three are in your workbook.
Now look at exercise four.
Exercise four gives you a chance to say some numbers.
For each item, say the number ahead of the speaker and then repeat the confirmation.
Number one,八千六百四十二.
Number two,一千兩百零二.
Number three,四千零七.
Number four,六千五百.
Number five,七千兩百一十二.
Number six,三千四百一十.
Number seven,九千七百零四.
Number eight,兩千零二.
Number nine,五千三百三十.
Number ten,两千二百二十二.
Did you notice the last answer?
Many speakers do not like using the number liang too many times in succession.
Therefore, they switch from liang to r after the first digit.
You'll hear this often in speech and we'll be using it for the rest of the tape.
Now take a look at display four, which shows numbers in the ten thousands.
Listen to the speaker say them.
一万,两万,三万,四万,五万,六万,七万,八万,九万.
Notice that the numbers 一,七,八, change from high tone to rising tone before the falling tone of one, the word for ten thousand.
Repeat ten thousand, literally one ten thousand.
一万,一万.
You'll notice that the number two is again liang.
Repeat twenty thousand or two ten thousand.
两万,两万.
Repeat thirty thousand, forty thousand, fifty thousand.
三万,四万,五万.
三万,四万,五万.
How would you say sixty thousand?
六万.
As you remember, the high tone of number seven,七, and number eight, 八, change to rising tone before a falling tone.
Repeat seventy thousand, eighty thousand.
七万,八万.
七万,八万.
How would you say ninety thousand?
九万.
As you can see from display four, something unusual happens with numbers in ten thousand.
While the western system of numbers puts a comma every three digits, the Chinese system of numbers puts the comma every four digits.
Other than learning where to put the commas, you need to learn no new rules for forming numbers over ten thousand.
Try your hand at understanding some.
Turn to exercise five in your workbook, which is a dictation exercise, and take down the numbers you hear.
Remembering the no rule about commas.
Let's start.
Number one.
一万一千一百一十一.
一万一千一百一十一.
Number two.
五万二千五百二十.
五万二千五百二十.
Number three.
七万八千二百三十四.
七万八千二百三十四.
Number four.
九万二千四百六十七.
九万二千四百六十七.
Number four.
四万五千七百三十八.
四万五千七百三十八.
Number six.
八万五千二百一十五.
八万五千二百一十五.
Number seven.
两万三千三百一十.
Number eight.
六万七千四百九十.
六万七千四百九十.
Number nine.
三万四千八百四十三.
三万四千八百四十三.
Number ten.
两万九千六百七十二.
两万九千六百七十二.
The answers to this exercise are in your workbook.
Now look at exercise six.
Exercise six will give you some practice in saying these higher numbers.
For each item,say the number aloud ahead of the speaker.
Then repeat the confirmation.
Notice that 两 is used with the first digit.
After that,either 两 or r can be used.
Number one.
八万二千一百三十九.
Number two.
四万五千三百六十五.
Number three.
两万一千五百四十.
Number four.
六万九千二百一十一.
Number five.
九万三千五百三十七.
Number six.
一万四千六百一十.
Number seven.
五万七千四百四十二.
Number eight.
三万八千七百九十三.
Number nine.
七万六千八百一十八.
Number ten.
两万八千九百五十四.
Now let's take a look at what happens with 零 in these higher numbers.
Take a look at display five.
Listen to the speaker read the numbers out loud.
First column one.
一万零一.
一万零一十一.
一万零一百一十一.
Now column two.
一万零一.
一万一千零一.
一万一千一百零一.
Now you try it.
Read the numbers in column one, one by one, ahead of the speaker.
一万零一.
一万零一十一.
一万零一百一十一.
As you can see, 零 can stand for one, two, or three places.
Now I call them two now.
Say the numbers out loud one by one, ahead of the speaker.
一万零一.
一万一千零一.
一万一千一百零一.
Exercise seven is a dictation exercise.
Test your understanding of these numbers, write down what you hear.
Number one.
两万零一.
两万零一.
Number two.
四万零一十.
Number three.
三万三千零一.
Number four.
七万零六百零一.
七万零六百零一.
四万九万八千零一十五.
九万八千零一十五.
Number six.
八万四千二百零六.
八万四千二百零六.
六万零九.
六万零九.
Number eight.
五万九千零三.
五万九千零三.
Number nine.
一万零五十.
一万零五十.
Number ten.
两万零五百零五.
两万零五百零五.
The answers to this exercise are in your workbook.
Now you try saying the numbers.
Turn to exercise eight.
Read the numbers one by one ahead of the speaker.
八万零一十五.
Number two.
四万六千零二.
Number three.
七万零五.
Number four.
两万二千二百零一.
Number five.
五万四千零三.
Number six.
三万零九.
Number seven.
两万七千零六.
Number eight.
一万零五十五.
Number nine.
六万二千零八.
Number ten.
九万零五百零九.
This is the end of the tape.
Numbers tape six.