| 여러분, 안녕하세요? 에이미에요. Hi, everybody! I’m Amy. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Welcome back to KoreanClass101.com’s 삼분 한국어,  the fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Korean. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Two lessons ago, we learned to count from one to ten using Chinese numbers. In the last lesson, we learned a whole other way to count from one to ten—using native Korean numbers! | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Do you remember all these numbers? Let's see if you can recall the native ones first: | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 1    하나 | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 2    둘 | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 3    셋 | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 4    넷 | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 5    다섯 | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 6    여섯 | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 7    일곱 | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 8    여덟 | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 9    아홉 | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 10    열 | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Great job! And how about the Chinese numbers—do you remember those? | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 1    일 | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 2    이 | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 3    삼 | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 4    사 | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 5    오 | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 6    육 | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 7    칠 | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 8    팔 | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 9    구 | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 10  십 | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Whew, that's a lot of numbers! But I bet you're wondering what comes next, right? | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Well, if you think about it, eleven is just ten plus one. How would you say that in Korean? No need to overthink it: | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 십 ("ten") plus 일 ("one") equals "eleven,” so “eleven” is 십일. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | And how about twelve? | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 십 ("ten") plus 이 ("two") equals "twelve", so “twelve” is 십이. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Seem too easy to be true? It’s not! And it doesn't get any harder when you hit twenty. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Twenty is really just two tens. Multiply two 이 by ten 십  to get twenty 이십! Just as you'd expect, 삼십 is thirty, 사십 is forty, and so on. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Now that you know how to count tens, you can make it all the way to ninety-nine. For example, I bet you can tell me the Korean word for "eighty-seven," even though we haven't counted nearly that high yet. Can you? | 
                                                                
                                                                            | First, we need to say “eighty.” Eighty is eight tens, so “eighty” is 팔십. Finally, say the word for "seven," 칠. 팔십칠 is "eighty-seven." | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Let’s learn one more word: The Korean word for "one hundred" is 백. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | [slowly] 백. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Can you guess how to say "one hundred fifty" in Korean? | 
                                                                
                                                                            | One hundred is 백,  and fifty is 오십. So one hundred fifty is..? That's right, it's 백오십! And I'm sure you can figure out how to say "two hundred fifty": | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 이백오십. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Great job! | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Now it’s time for Amy’s insights. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | You just learned how to count above ten for Chinese numbers, but it works the exact same way for native numbers: "eleven" is 열하나 (열 is “ten” and 하나 is “one”), "twelve" is 열둘 (열 is “ten” and 둘 is “two”), and so on. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | In the next lesson, we are going to learn the handy phrase 얼마에요? Do you know what it means? We’ll see this phrase and many others that will help you shop! | 
                                                                
                                                                            | We'll be waiting for you in our next 삼분 한국어 lesson. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | 안녕히 계세요! 다음에 봐요! | 
                                                        
                     
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