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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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