 Currency Do you know what the word “currency” means? It’s the money used in a country. Do you know the name of Japan’s currency? It’s the Japanese Yen or Yen ￥ In 🇯🇵 it’s written as えん Each country has its own currency. Each country’s currency has its own value, printed money 💵 and coins. Here are some examples: What’s the name of the currency in your country? What if I am in 🇯🇵 and I want to know how much something costs in 🇨🇦 dollars? You need to know the exchange rate. Have you heard the word "exchange rate” before? Knowing the exchange rate lets you know the value of items in different currencies or how much your currency is worth. For example: $1 🇨🇦 is worth about 90 Japanese Yen (¥ = symbol for Yen) Here are some examples of converting the price in 🇯🇵¥ to 🇨🇦💲  What if you want to know how much your 🇨🇦 $ are worth in 🇯🇵 ¥ ?  💻 Prefer to watch the video? In this video, Stella will: 🍥 Say the cost of items in Japanese 🍥 Take you shopping and add up the total cost in 🇯🇵¥ 🍥 Compare the cost in 🇯🇵¥ to 🇨🇦💲 🍥 Show you what some Japanese coins look like ✍🏻 Want to keep practicing? Download the practice worksheet 
1,000 to 90,000 Congratulations! You now know how to count in the hundreds. That's awesome! Let's learn how to count even higher. Don't let those extra zeros intimidate you! If you are confident with the earlier lessons, then you are ready to take on the bigger numbers.  Exceptions: ⚠️ You don’t say “ichi sen” for 1000. You just say “sen” ⚠️ For 3000 you say “san zen” not “san sen” ⚠️ For 8000 you say “has sen” not “hachi sen”  💻 Prefer to watch the video? ✍🏻 Want to keep practicing? Download the worksheet.
100+ Now that you are practically an expert at counting in Japanese, it’s time to learn to count even higher. We’re talking hundreds, thousands and ten thousands. Trust me - it’s not that hard! Like everything, there are a few exceptions. Some are below ⚠️  ⚠️ You don’t say “ichi hyaku” for 100. You just say “hyaku” ⚠️ For 300 (san byaku), 600 (rop pyaku) & 800 (hap pyaku) it is not “hyaku” Let’s try something a bit more challenging! Are you ready?  💻 Prefer to watch the video? ✍🏻 Want to keep practicing? Download the worksheet.
Counting Higher Now use your knowledge of counting from 1-10 to count even higher. You’ll see that it’s actually quite easy. Are you ready?  👓 Did you notice something? All the red rows are odd numbers (11, 13,..) and all the white rows are even numbers (12, 14,..). Now let's learn how to count by tens starting at 20  💻 Prefer to watch the video? ✍🏻 Want to keep practicing? Download the worksheet.
Learning to Count in Japanese It’s actually quite easy! Steps to learning how to count in Japanese: #1 Learn to count from 1-10 #2 Learn the names for: 100 = hyaku = ひゃく 1,000 = sen = せん 10,000 = man = まん #3 Now 1-10 quickly becomes 1-10,000+ ⚠️ There are some exceptions, but we’ll get to those later on In this lesson you’ll learn how to: 🍥 Count from 1-10 in Japanese 🗻🗻 Count between 11-99 🍱🍱🍱 Get comfortable counting to 100, 1000, 10 000+ Does that sound like fun? Ready. Set. Let’s Learn to Count in Japanese! How do you count from 1-10 in Japanese? Great question! ⚠️ Notice that I’ve written the numbers in Hiragana. This is only for you to start to see the numbers written. Remember, we’ll return to the lessons later on for you to LEARN Hiragana.  🖥 Are you a visual learner? Watch the video. 📝Want to practice counting from 1-10 in Japanese? Download the worksheet.
And what's it have to do with learning a new language? A quilt is a patchwork of different materials pieced together. Much like putting together a quilt, we’ll learn Japanese by joining different topics together. Here’s what our Japanese language learning quilt will look like. Each week I’ll unlock a new piece of the quilt.  Our Japanese language learning quilt Did you know…?
Japanese has three writing systems: ✍🏻 Hiragana ✍🏻 Katakana ✍🏻 Kanji I am most familiar with Hiragana and feel it’s the easiest to learn. That's where we'll start. But, not just yet! There’s lots you can learn first before starting to write. In the future, whenever I write in Japanese I’ll be writing in Hiragana. I’ll start by informally introducing you to the writing. You’ll see it, but I won’t teach you how to read and write it just yet. Be patient! We’ll return to these lessons again to learn to write. This will allow you to review the material and begin to slowly absorb and recognize the writing. Japanese is a phonetic language. In my opinion, this makes learning easier. We need to start somewhere. Stella & I both love math, so let’s start with numbers. Learning numbers is actually really easy! Are you excited? Ready. Set. Let’s Learn Some Numbers! Konnichiwa! こんいちわ Welcome to my Japanese language learning blog for young travellers. ⚠️ I am not a native Japanese speaker I am a believer in the idea of wabi-sabi. What’s wabi-sabi? It’s the belief that there is beauty in imperfection. Learning a language takes time. You’ll make mistakes. It’s normal. Have fun! Just like you, Stella & I are learning Japanese. As a teacher and a mom I have a good idea of how young people learn. On this site I’ll use: My Teaching 👩🏼🏫 + My Languages 🇨🇦🇫🇷🇯🇵 = An Introduction to Japanese This site will give you the basics to prepare for your trip to Japan. If you just want to learn Japanese for fun - excellent! This site will start you on your Japanese learning journey. Are you ready? Let’s learn Japanese! |
AuthorsSheri & Stella like to travel and learn new languages. Join Stella on her Japanese language learning journey. 
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