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Rather than send this straight to Koichi, I figured that I might get the input of some more seasoned learners to see if I’m right about a potential error that I’ve found on the S02L04 practice page.
In the kanji vocab for S02L04 (found in a zip file on this page), we have such phrases as “一人”, for which the numeral is said to be pronounced with the くん reading, namely “ひと”. However, on the practice page we have “七人” (second-last sentence in the first section), for which the numeral is pronounced in the sound-bite with the おん reading, namely “しち”. From what I understand, since we’re counting we’d use the くん reading as we did in the first example, meaning that it should be pronounced “なな”.
Is one of these an error, or is this an exception? Or am I simply getting mixed up here?
Exception です！
One person and two people are oddball pronunciations. ひとり and ふたり while the rest use にん
=^..^=Ah. Very well then—good to know. ありがとう！
Also, I like your use of 「です」. Beginner-friendly. :)
Anonymoushttp://www.tofugu.com/guides/japanese-counters-guide/
Go to the people section
Koichi really needs to state that example is a counter as it’s confused so many people.
I agree with kanjiman8. My friend also asked me the same thing a while back.
Very well: I shall do that now. Thanks, friends.
Koichi says:
Yeah, that sort of thing is on my ever growing list of things to clear up for next version. It’s neat because folks like you tell me about things that confuse them, and then I get to fix them, though there’s a lot sometimes :(
So be patient! Or I suppose we’re no longer affected by this particular problem since we’ve already learned the exception. :)
No, someone will come along in a week and post exactly the same thread. =P
AnonymousYup Joel’s right, it’s just like the onyomi kunyomi question, asked billions of times even though its not hard AT ALL. :P
Say what? I was just going through the big list of *these* threads, finally on my way to email Koichi to tell him to get it fixed… and someone’s told him about it already? More than a year ago as well and still no fix? I think I’ll still say to him – the first guy to email him probably only told him what the problem was, not the true *extent* of it.
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