tailieunhanh - 13 secrets for speaking fluent japanese phần 3

Tham khảo tài liệu '13 secrets for speaking fluent japanese phần 3', ngoại ngữ, nhật - pháp - hoa- others phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 13 SECRETS If you want to have serious conversations in Japanese you must bite the bullet and learn how to say big numbers. Largely because the yen is a low-value currency unit everyday use of big numbers is not restricted to the rocket-science community. Salaries in Japan for example are always in the millions hyaku-man . The population not only of Japan itself but of its Asian neighbors like China Indonesia or India is in the 100 million to 1 billion range ichi oku to jũ Oku . And the revenues of Japan s numerous world-beating companies like Sony and Toshiba are all in the trillions chõ . Don t wait until you re in the middle of an earnest discussion on the global food crisis or the relative size of IBM and Hitachi to discover that you are unable to deliver the killer statistic you need to finish off your opponent. Attack Japanese numbers systematically and cool-headedly and you can master them If you divide all the Japanese numbers from ten thousand up to ten trillion into groups see the Mini-Converter Table above you will see that there are in fact only ten number-type bands. If you can memorize a single representative number from each of the number-type bands and keep it in your mind as a reference archetype you will be able to say any number no matter how big Study the charton the next two pages overleaf. It provides you with a single representative number from each of the ten bands. Make sure you really understand why the numbers are read as they are. Don t be ashamed to move your lips as you read Once you feel you understand how to count big go on to check your numerical ability with the General Knowledge Numbers Quiz. 32 SECRET 4 STATISTICS Sources__ ll the statistics quoted in the following chart are real. Check them for yourself in the following list of sources. Then learn other interesting statistics to make your Japanese conversations oilnd more intelligent and informed. A Japan An Illustrated .