A language with two counting systems!

What If Your Language Had Two Ways to Count?

That's right, you guessed it, in Korea you need to know two numbering systems. 

˖⁺‧₊˚ ♡ ˚₊‧⁺˖

Those systems are:

1. Korean numbering (native numbers)

2. Sino-Korean (coming from China)

💜Korean native numbering

This system is used to express age or count. in other words is mostly used to refer to a number of people or countable objects sequentially.

1 = 하나 (jana) 

2 = 둘 (dul)

3 = 셋 (set)

4 = 넷 (net)

💚Sino-Korean ( from China)

I know some of my readers are studying Chinese, so if you recognize any of these numbers, I'm happy to tell you that... you also know how to say; dates, minutes, seconds or count money in Korean! 

They are used to count a non-sequential amount of objects.

1 = 일 (il)

2 = 이 (i)

3 = 삼 (Sam)

4 = 사 (Sa)

In my experience learning these two numbering systems, I consider that at the beginning it was complicated. However, like everything in life, practice makes experts!