The fruit of Today's Combined Lessons & I Finally Can Say What I'm Doing

So between Pimsleur covering the directions （右・左・真直 more on those another day when I know more） and Rosetta Stone hitting hard with numbers, I think I'm really getting some of the basics down. I feel comfortable with my number up to 99. Why the fuck did they skip 100 and go to 1000? I know how to count from 1-99, 1000-1099,2000-2099, 3000-3099.. notice the huge lack of fucking 100's? I guess I could go study it on my own, but I just find it odd I have these weird gaps in my ability to count simply because I haven't learned 100 yet.

So, if you are new or confused in the number system, this is how it works. You have your normal numbers 1-10. To go over 10 it is spoken and written like 10-1 (十一), 10-2 (十二), 10-3 (十三), etc. The you get to 20 and it becomes 2-10 (二十). Then it goes on as 2-10-1 (二十一), 2-10-2 (二十二), 2-10-3 (二十三), etc. So all to way up to 99 (九十九) I got. Then you would use the character for 100, except I don't know that yet.

It's a damn easy system and it makes learning counting numbers easy. But then you have to throw in Japanese counters when describing objects and people. That is a discussion for another day. I still only know a few anyway.

But, the fruit of everything today is:

私は日本語を勉強しています。
「わたしはにほんごをべんきょうしてます。」

"I am studying Japanese." How very apt.

And on that note, こんばんは。