How Chinese, Japanese and Korean Numbers Sound the Same

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…

10,000 Steps & Wishes (Plus a little bit of linguistic determinism)

A quick fun fact for the day. There is actually NO evidence whatsoever (at least, the last time I read about this) that 10,000 steps is what humans should be striving to achieve each day in terms of exercise.