分类存档：Phonetics

Hi guys! 好久不见！ I thought I’d tide you over with a short(-ish) little (long) post about Chinese numbers that should quench your thirst for all things linguistically oriental. As some of you know, I’ve been getting into Shanghainese recently. As I was poring over my Shanghainese book (as one does on a Saturday afternoon), I was quite taken aback with how much similarity there is between Shanghainese and Japanese pronunciations of the numbers…