Counting in Japanese

This free audio lesson on counting in Japanese is essential stuff for your Japanese language survival kit! Want to go shopping? Tell someone the address where you’re staying or the number of house you’re visiting? Perhaps you want to know how old someone is, or how many children they have.

There are so many reasons to know how to count in Japanese, and the Rocket Japanese team are here to help. Starting with the basics, by the end of this lesson you’ll know how to count in Japanese from numbers 1-10. Let’s get started!

Counting from 1 to 10 in Japanese

That’s it for this lesson.

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